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		randallsquared on July 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I won't be at my high school reunion I found Diamond's _Guns, Germs, and Steel_ very informative, but in light of this year's lawsuit ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Diamond#Controversy ), I'm not sure how much of it was just made up.

asdlfj2sd33 on July 17, 2009 [–]

Diamond is far from the only one to write about tribal killings in Papua New Guinea. That doesn't mean he didn't make it up, but if he did make something up it probably wouldn't be something easily proven wrong.

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