Robert Trivers' Response to Opinion 83 of Doron Zeilberger

dear doron

thanks for your note

there is really very little to say about your posting since there is so
little content in it

you are kind enough to remind me that reality includes the shade grey but
then you paint all of evolutionary biology black because of the alleged
transgressions of one evolutionist; most children are capable of more
nuanced reasoning

the rest is argumentation by invective: i am a bigot, a male chauvinist, a
flake, a crackpot, and a political activist pretending to be a scientist;
naturally no evidence is offered; the notion that i painted Arabs as
"innocent saints" is absurd, as it the contention that my whole lecture
was "a political tirade against Isreal and the Jews"

you merely appear to demonstrate the general rule that when people can not
offer substantive criticisms they take the easy road to insult and
derogation

i will not defend the crafoord committee and its choices but will say that
the first time i spoke on israel's brutal assault on lebanbon was at the
prize ceremonies themselves, so the committee could hardly have awarded me
the prize for that bit of "political activism"

with every good wish,

robert trivers

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