On the Evolutionary Psychology mailing list, dangerous ideas thrive

[Rudolf Gaudio]

I clicked the link on Dr. Pitchford's earlier e-mail and ended up on a page
that provides wonderful data for discourse analysts interested in
advertising and mass-marketing.  The page is devoted to praising not only
the Evo-Psych mailing list, but also the efforts of its founder, one Dr.
Ian Pitchford.  I quote:

>Yet, somehow, on the Evolutionary Psychology list everyone is civil and
everyone
>keeps reading -- a testament to the nimble moderation imposed by one man,
>Ian Pitchford, founder and editor of the list. In the unlikeliest of
locations he
>has created one of the few places online that are truly inimical to
pompous
>blowhards.
>
>Pitchford has achieved this by being much more than your ordinary
moderator.
>In effect, he has stopped simply being the maintainer of a mailing list
and has
>become the editor of a new kind of magazine. The Evolutionary Psychology
>list combines the quick, cheap distribution of the Internet with all the
>advantages that real magazines traditionally have over mailing lists: a
really
>diverse readership and an editor who sits right next to a large wastepaper

>basket.

I'm with John Clark.  Puh-leez indeed.

Rudolf P. Gaudio
Department of Anthropology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0030

Ian Pitchford wrote:

> John T. Clark wrote:
>
> Andrew Brown might do well to pose whether whites are "programmed by
> their genes" to genocidally crusade the earth promoting their own
> cherished cosmologies (earth-plundering, capitalism, private property,
> to name a few).
>
> Puh-leez, there is nothing so novel or scintillating about "dangerous
> ideas" that tap into the same, tired, blood-stained subject positions of
> white supremacy.
>
> ___
>
> REPLY: You haven't actually read the article have you?
>
> Regards
>
> Ian Pitchford <Ian.Pitchford at scientist.com>
> http://www.egroups.com/group/evolutionary-psychology