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Science 29 September 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5488, pp. 2251 - 2253
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5488.2251
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Misconduct Alleged in Yanomamo Studies

Charles C. Mann

Although few of them have read it yet, anthropologists are nervously awaiting the publication of a new book that charges some prominent researchers with professional misconduct--and much worse--in their studies of the Yanomamo, a native people in the Brazilian and Venezuelan Amazon. Darkness in El Dorado accuses anthropologists of creating a false picture of the Yanomami, manufacturing evidence, and perhaps setting off a fatal measles epidemic. The contretemps is not likely to end soon, although it should at least become better informed once the book is published.

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