The Myth of Increasing Violence

[leo9]

So far as I can see, he does have the data to back it up.

OK, I was far too sweeping here. Some of his claims have data to back them up: some are based simply on drawing conclusions from one historical source; and all of them are partial, covering one aspect of the general theme of violence while saying nothing about others.

But he does give specific sources

My mistake: he does not detail the NGOs who are the source of the world statistics.

But his evidence from real archaology is impressive, and surprised me.

My mistake again. That evidence isn't part of the original paper, it's not even his: I had been reading the book he got his chart of hunter-gatherers from. Nothing to do with this thread.

That post was a mess, I'm sorry. I've been having a tiring week.