Darwin deploraria toda a louvaminhice, o beija-mão e o beija-pé no mundo inteiro

Ufa, eu já não aguentava mais tanta louvaminhice, beija-mão e beija-pé de Darwin no Brasil e no mundo. Até que fim apareceu um acadêmico lúcido, tudo indica não ser do tipo vaquinha de presépio que a Nomenklatura científica espera que todos sejam quando a questão é Darwin.

Detonou com maestria as festividades de bajulação no mundo inteiro e em um jornal famoso: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Engraçado, a Folha de São Paulo de vez em quando traduz e publica artigos do WSJ. Por que não publicaram este artigo? Marcelo Leite responde: "Não damos espaço"!!!

Ainda bem que no tempo de Darwin não tinha paparazzi, senão ia ser um Darwin nos acuda...

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February 14, 2009

Natural selection

Mr. Darwin Regrets

Why the great English naturalist would be dismayed by the bicentenary hoopla

By MICHAEL NEVE

A geology enthusiast in his early life, Charles Darwin would have surely reached for the word "deluge" or "explosion" to describe the sheer amount of activity that we are all witnessing to celebrate his birth in 1809 and the 1859 publication of "The Origin of Species." Even as you read this, another 747 has flown overhead, crammed with historians, scientists and commentators, all en route to some exotic locale, all hoping that they have something new to say about Darwin and his work.

Amid all the mayhem, the meetings, the publications, the circus of radio and television programs, it might be worth a moment of our time to speculate on how Darwin himself might have dealt with all this. On April 22, 1882, he was buried in Westminster Abbey in London, close to the monument of Sir Isaac Newton. Without intruding on his peaceful state, are there aspects to his life and character that give us clues?

Michael Neve is a senior lecturer in the history of medicine at University College London. He co-edited the Penguin Classics editions of Charles Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle" and "Autobiographies."

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