Biophobia  

"Marvin Harris is by no means the only outstanding social scientist suffering from biophobia. What a waste." --Homicide: Foundations of Human Behavior (1988) by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson.

"In Noble Savages, his recently published and much publicized book, Napoleon Chagnon asserts that for well over a century a “widespread biophobia is built into cultural anthropological theory, which results in deep contempt for biological ideas” (p. 381). My view as a biological anthropologist and former American Anthropological Association (AAA) president is that Chagnon’s characterization is based on illogical extrapolations and is factually incorrect.

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Chagnon takes two illogical leaps. He first equating a critique of sociobiology to widespread biophobia and then equates biophobia with widespread anti-science. However, the evidence does not support these leaps of logic. Furthermore, critiques of sociobiology are neither biophobic nor anti-science. They are legitimate scientific practices." --Alan Goodman[1]