In politics, as soon as you voice a view to someone, that person will wonder what color your state is--or what color state you're in. Are you Red or Blue? In religion, you're a heretic or a believer. In biology, if you question any aspect of Darwinian theory, do you believe in evolution? If you're a committed Darwinian, then don't you even believe in God? Can you be trusted?
The reasons people gravitate to the solidarity of group affiliation are well known to anthropology. But is the heating-up of current divisions just a tempest in a teapot? Does the continued contentiousness reflect inadequacies of science or merely of scientists? Will there be visitations on society if either side prevails? In this Citrus Bowl, Orange and Grapefruit defend points of view by interpreting the data differently. Is one more right than the other? Or is just your view right? Or is it mine?
Source
Weiss, Kenneth M. 2008 The good, the bad, and the ugli. Evolutionary Anthropology 17 (3):129-134.
