Reply to Singer's 'Blind Hostility'
| Autor: | Sharon M. Russell, Charles S. Nicoll |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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| Zdroj: | Experimental Biology and Medicine. 211:147-154 |
| ISSN: | 1535-3699 1535-3702 |
| Popis: | We were not surprised by the tone of Peter Singer's response to our commentary but we admit to astonishment at the minor points of criticism that he selected to attempt to rebut. To paraphrase part of his reply to our first, abbreviated critique (1) of his chapter (2), we conclude that his failure to respond to our disclosure of his numerous distortions and selective quotations, or to our discussion of the flimsy basis for his philosophical arguments, or to our conclusion that his position reflects misanthropic and anti-science sentiments, constitutes his reluctant endorsement of the validity of these points in our critique.The Non-IssueWe readily admit that we were in error in originally suggesting that Singer had fabricated a quotation. We are puzzled, however, that Singer is making such an issue of an error that we corrected before publication. The reason that Singer received a second revised manuscript for his comments in January of 1995 was that the manuscript was critiqued by two outside reviewers, ... |
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