I'm just going to let anthropologist Barbara King do my talking: Even if Diamond makes mistakes — and he does — might his taking on big questions for large numbers of readers do more good than harm? Science writer John Horgan blogged on Monday, for instance, that "Diamond challenges the kneejerk sense of superiority of those of us in WEIRD societies." That's no small thing. And finally: Where, at least since 1982 and Eric Wolf's Europe and the People Without History, are the "big books" in which we anthropologists do a better job than Diamond? Back to me: Wade Davis might be the only anthropologist that really has the right to openly criticize Diamond's popular anthropology writings. Until anthropologists step up and popularize their own subject, they shouldn't be so critical. And I'm not being a hypocrite. I'm an anthropologist that is desperately trying to popularize a subject that needs it more than any other in academia.