RE: groupthink gauntlet: MacArthur's ill-fated drive toward the Yalu

From: derek gatherer (dgatherer2002@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Wed 04 Feb 2004 - 08:54:28 GMT

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> Could you cite the page please? It is amusing if
> true because Dawkins
> didn't like the word. (Though he did use the phase
> "population memeticist"
> on page 194.)

Yes, you are correct. Dawkins didn't use the adjective 'memetic' but actually the noun
'memeticist'. Since we know that one who does
'genetics' is a 'geneticist', doesn't the coinage of
'memeticist' necessarily imply somebody who does........?

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