Re: Patterson's lecture-American Museum of Natural History

Jim.Foley@symbios.com
Mon, 12 Feb 96 16:43:40 MST

>>>>> On Mon, 12 Feb 96 23:31:55 EST, sjones@iinet.net.au (Stephen
>>>>> Jones) said:

JF>In addition to the claims about evolution, there was also some
>ill-feeling about whether Sunderland had committed an ethical breach in
>distributing an account of a private talk.

>> This doesn't hold water. Read Sunderland's book. It was quite clear
>> that Patterson must have known that what he was writing was intended
>> for publication. Sunderland actually followed it up later with a
>> personal taped interview:

It sounds like you're referring to the interviews and correspondence
between Sunderland and Patterson. I was referring to the talk Patterson
gave at the AMNH in 1981. In that case, Patterson apparently had no
idea it had been recorded, and there was, as I said, some dispute about
the propriety of Sunderland's use of the recording. (I believe
Sunderland was not there and did not make the recording himself. I'm
not saying Sunderland was in the wrong, merely that there *was* some
dispute.) Let me get Dodson and Howe out from the library again before
going into any more detail.

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