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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02114
617-742-6584

June 29, 1979

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
President

Rockefeller University
New York, N. Y. 10021

 

Dear Josh:

_ I've not received reprints for my Causality article as yet, but will
send one if I do. In the meantime, here is a xerox. Also here is an arti-
cle in which you are quoted (p.10); I hope you like it, as I've suggested
you to Science (which rejected the Causality article) as a reviewer. If
you don't like it, be kind for old time's sake.

I was a semantics major at Stanford, and turned to science as an es-
cape, when it finally dawned on me that people do not want to understand
each other. Displaying egos is ever so much more important than clarifying
misunderstandings (how can rational people really disagree, with bthessame
world to abstract from?). People also, in their immaturity, want simple
answers to obviously complex problems: God and the Gene (no offense). Up-
staged by a computer?! However, complex problems will only be solved by
equally complex analyses.

Best regards,

Barb on.
Barbara E. Wright, Ph.D. L

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