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Science 19 January 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5503, pp. 417 - 418
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5503.417
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Preemptive Strike Sought to Discredit Book Before It Was Published

Charles C. Mann

At the end of August, two anthropologists e-mailed the president of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) about an "impending scandal" that would rock the discipline. A forthcoming book, Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon, was charging several prominent researchers with mistreating the Yanomamo Indians in Venezuela--and worse. In response, a group of researchers assembled an anti-Darkness campaign so swift and forceful that it produced lengthy rebuttals of the book before it was even published.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)