Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists,… - Stephen Jay Gould

Few campaigns are more dangerous than emotional calls for proscription rather than thought.

What then, are the nonscientific reasons that have fostered the resurgence of biological determinism? They range, I believe, from pedestrian pursuits of high royalties for best sellers to pernicious attempts to reintroduce racism as respectable science. Their common denominator must lie in our current malaise. How satisfying it is to fob off the responsibility for war and violence upon our presumably carnivorous ancestors. How convenient to blame the poor and the hungry for their own condition – lest we be forced to blame our economic system or our government for an abject failure to secure a decent life for all people. And how convenient an argument for those who control government and, by the way, provide the money that science requires for its very existence.

We do not usually surrender the intellectual system of a lifetime for one bit of information that does not fit.