I'll be picking up this issue of Archaeology Magazine

[james_davis_nicoll]

Diamond on the Carpet

Archaeologists think Guns, Germs, and Steel author Jared Diamond misrepresents the downfall of ancient civilizations to score points for today's environmental movement. What does their criticism of the Pulitzer Prize winning biologist tell us about his biases, and how does it reveal their own?

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[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

That's a rhetorical argument, not a scientific one. Diamond claims to be a scientist.