Hobbit not a pinhead, says <i>Science</i>

Posted 11 April 2005 by John S. Wilkins

↗ The current version of this post is on the live site: https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2005/04/hobbit-not-a-pi.html

A new report in Science has come out firmly in favour of the Homo floresiensis not being a “pathological microcephalic”. Read more here.

6 Comments

moioci · 11 April 2005

" Those who have been following this particular story will know that Prof. Jacob ... is a pathological microcephalic."

Sounds about right to me.

John Wilkins · 11 April 2005

Tsk tsk. We in the west are hardly the ones to tweak someone about nationalism...

Dan S. · 11 April 2005

"a pathological microcephalic"
I now have a new favorite insult!

sir_toejam · 11 April 2005

well, not that it's on topic or anything, but my new favorite euphemism for IDers came from an Open Democracy forum poster from the UK, who calls them:

God bothering tub thumpers.

man, i love that.

cheers

Mike Hopkins · 11 April 2005

This actually was published online in advance of the print edition last month and was discussed by Carl Zimmer on March 3.

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John Wilkins · 11 April 2005

Ah, so it was. Thanks, Mike.