Biologist Jared Diamond is being sued by people he studied (Image: A. Krauze)
DID Jared Diamond libel Papua New Guineans in a high-profile article? I don’t know. And, most likely, neither do you.
Diamond is being sued for $10 million in a New York court over an April 2008 article in The New Yorker magazine concerning violence and revenge in Papua New Guinea, where he has spent many years. Diamond named names, and some of those names say that claims made in his article are false – and may have put the life of one of them at risk.
An allegation…
