Writing in a New York Times op/ed, author Jared Diamond takes Mitt Romney to task for mischaracterizing the thesis of his book Guns, Germs and Steel:

It is not true that my book “Guns, Germs and Steel,” as Mr. Romney described it in a speech in Jerusalem, “basically says the physical characteristics of the land account for the differences in the success of the people that live there. There is iron ore on the land and so forth.”

That is so different from what my book actually says that I have to doubt whether Mr. Romney read it.

[…] Mitt Romney may become our next president. Will he continue to espouse one-factor explanations for multicausal problems, and fail to understand history and the modern world? If so, he will preside over a declining nation squandering its advantages of location and history.

Ouch.

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  2. But did he say Papaua New Guinea like 9 times in a paragraph?

    I tried to read that book, but there were only so many times I could read: “Papaua New Guinea” before I wanted to set it on fire and throw it at the author.

    Seriously, that fucker repeats it like 9 times in a paragraph. If they removed most of them the book would be about 100 pages shorter.

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