In my experience, professors are fairly brittle and completely unused to being 
challenged in any way. 

Joanna 

----- Original Message -----
Michael Perelman wrote: 
> What surprised me was how brittle he [Gintis] was. He seemed truly hurt when 
> anyone challenged him. 

in my experience, people are brittle when they are psychologically 
insecure. The rapid decline of the left in the US may have unhinged 
him. 
-- 
Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to 
be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But 
in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac. Social science is 
in the middle.... and usually in a muddle. 
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