Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id KAA13041 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:59:15 GMT Message-ID: <3AB9DA4A.1C75967E@bioinf.man.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:56:10 +0000 From: Chris Taylor <Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk> Organization: University of Manchester X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: The Demise of a Meme References: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745CFC@inchna.stir.ac.uk> <3AB92D30.F621B16E@wehi.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Paul Kammerer (is that how you spell it?). The Lamarckian guy. Killed
because of the political implications of his stuff (not a suicide - the
hole in his temple from the bullet was in the wrong side for his
handedness). However this was also more a political killing, and one of
the very few.
What is perhaps more interesting though is the way that the vehicle
(person or theory) for these scientific memes (fact, I think, is
irrelevant in that it just fits our memeplexes - we could be right for
the wrong reasons) has a fitness effect on those memes, and a vehicle
can therefore die a 'professional' death - dicreditation - taking many
good memes down with the bad.
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Chris Taylor (chris@bioinf.man.ac.uk)
http://bioinf.man.ac.uk/ »people»chris
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