ext_12863 ([identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] james_davis_nicoll 2005-04-18 03:44 pm (UTC)

I probably should have clarified that I meant non-nonsensical science.

Allow me to illustrate the problems with that book by locking Stephen Jay Gould in a small room with that book. Ah, I see the book's theory is so awful that Gould has constructed a time machine so as to give himself terminal cancer before the experiment began [1].

In SF, biology is the sad-eyed child with the mysterious bruises and the unexplained fractures.


1: You don't want to know what happened when I tried something similar with an elderly Galois and a copy of WORLD OF NULL-A.

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