Ethics

Stuart Pivar: Ballsy or Crazy?

By Ed Brayton

Some of you may remember the brouhaha caused by Stuart Pivar around these parts a couple years ago. Pivar wrote a breathtakingly bad book called Lifecode and sent it to PZ for him to review. So he reviewed it - and trashed praised it for its "flagrant crackpottery." A couple years later, Pivar, in a fit of pique, filed a libel suit against PZ and Seed Magazine. For $15 million. Because a scientist and specialist in the field addressed by his book gave the book a bad review.

You can still see the complaint here.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 29, 2009 (boomark / email).