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I never claimed to be one. My comment is directly relevant to the parent, so is on topic. Also, good job demonstrating courtesy with your dismissive tone.

Well you clearly don’t actually know what postmodernism is, so mind your criticism until you read a book.

You’re making some unwarranted assumptions about what it would take to make a reasonable statement about the world. For example: >> any deduction you would make from it meaningless…

I have no idea why this is getting downvoted so much. This is a great, well articulated comment that raises significant points by situating science as a human activity, and thereby…

The problem with this, though, is that evidence is only as good as its appropriateness for addressing the goal or question at hand, and the suitability of the method for overcoming…

Guns, Germs and Steel is pseudo-anthropology, and pretty much all anthropologists are extremely critical of it. Please be aware of this while you read it.