Dr. E.O. Wilson, expert on biodiversity, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author was on Up To Date today. The discussion was wide ranging, but it started with the doctor expressing concern about the Intelligent Design controversy in Kansas and later touched on his brush with the left in the early 70's.
He was called a Nazi and doused with water while giving a speech because he contended that there is a strong genetic tendency towards racism and war. The prevailing opinion on campuses at the time (and still in the humanities departments) was that humans were blank slates to be written upon by the enlightened left. That he had the temerity to suggest otherwise was intolerable.
Just another story to illustrate that fanaticism isn't found only (or even mainly) in church.
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