Re: Haeckel and N-rays: Fraud or self-deception ?

Cliff Lundberg (cliff@noevalley.com)
Sun, 01 Nov 1998 13:42:41 -0800

Kevin O'Brien wrote:

> The take home lesson with regards to Haeckel and his drawings is
> that it demonstrates that Haeckel could have been inaccurate, yet
> his drawings still correctly portray the basic elements of his
> biogenetic law and recapitulation.

I don't see how anyone can study Haeckel and not think he was
a genius and a class act. Evolution was a powerful new concept
and he got carried away and saw details that he thought must be
there but weren't. Big deal.

-- Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@noevalley.com