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by kqr2 3778 days ago
GGS has received a lot of criticisms from anthropologists.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/1rzm07/wha...

Like Malcolm Gladwell, Jared Diamond is very skilled at weaving a narrative that offers "aha" insight, however, it seems to come at the expense of cherry picking facts and events from history.

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Jared Diamond is the king of making money off of people's confirmation biases.