Abstract
Grzegorz Malec’s “There Is No Darwin’s Greatest Secret”, a review of my book Nullius in Verba: Darwin’s Greatest Secret, takes one extremely minor finding from my book and, despite his best efforts, manages to disconfirm just one of thirty examples of that minor finding. He then takes that one disconfirmed mere minor example and presents it as evidence that he has disconfirmed all the original major findings in my book. By so doing, his deceptive review goes far beyond the counter-academic deviance of mere cherry picking, it is more a case of gross misrepresentation to the point of de facto fact denial amounting to historic revisionist behaviour.
Highlights
Sticking with the subject of appropriate titles, in his review of my book Grzegorz Malec fails to consider evidence in the book itself that challenges the title of his incredibly misleading review of it. Any such outright and de facto fact denial behaviour by scientists and historians is a concern that we all have a communal duty to expose and tackle wherever we find it
Darwin scholars can no longer claim — as they did before my book was published — that Patrick Matthew’s prior-published conception of macroevolution by natural selection was unread by any naturalists before Darwin and Wallace replicated it
I know Grzegorz Malec has been trying hard to find other examples of apparent unique Matthewisms to rebut, because he has sent me e-mails in that regard
Summary
This is a response to Grzegorz Malec’s “There Is No Darwin’s Greatest Secret”, 1 a review of my book Nullius in Verba: Darwin’s Greatest Secret. 2. It is obvious that we need a veracious history of the discovery of natural selection, which is, arguably, the unifying theory of biology This response to Malec’s grossly misleading review of my book is written in the interests of veracity about the history of discovery of the unifying theory of biology. Sticking with the subject of appropriate titles, in his review of my book Grzegorz Malec fails to consider evidence in the book itself that challenges the title of his incredibly misleading review of it Any such outright and de facto fact denial behaviour by scientists and historians is a concern that we all have a communal duty to expose and tackle wherever we find it. What has been newly discovered and is originally revealed in my book and presented in it as being of the greatest importance, which Malec’s re-
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