Talk:Richard Levins

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The bibliography is getting rather long. Ought we to arrange it chronologically? -lex

Some editors are getting Richard Levins of the Harvard School of Public Health confused with Dick Levins, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. These are two separate individuals!

Noted, but Dr. Richard Levins of HSPH is widely known among his colleagues as 'Dick Levins' - so we listed the nickname in quotation marks, in the middle of his 2 other names. MaynardClark (talk) 16:57, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

The understudy

"Stephen Colbert has been acknowledged as a lifetime idol and understudy to Richard Levins, a fact he will take with him to the grave." This remark is not relevant for the readers and will be omitted.--Engelbaet 16:50, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Is it true, or is that statement false? MaynardClark (talk) 18:12, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Political and ethical positions

The article includes a formal statement at the top of the article that the article does not discuss the Professor's political and ethical positions. I think that statement about the article is a false description and should be removed. MaynardClark (talk) 18:12, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

If political and ethical positions need to be developed, let someone do that. Then we can edit it (based upon available evidence). But otherwise, the statement should be removed.

Now, we COULD say that a LIST of political and ethical positions should be developed and text developed or composed to address each of those listed political and ethical positions. MaynardClark (talk) 13:55, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Reportedly, Richard Levins was a practicing vegetarian but NOT a vegan, and his vegetarian advocacy (how he presented the desirability of vegetarianism related to agricultural efficiency in the broader biological world, 'the whole'! !!!! In this sense, he was neither an abolitionist nor an animal liberationist nor a deontologist regarding the rights of nonhuman persons. That's how I 'read' Richard's positions from my conversations with him. MaynardClark (talk) 14:02, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Community - Richard Levins seemed to enjoy the community of scientific and political colleagues. To what extent their speech and presumed intentions from their speech and representational behaviors were engaged in the psychosocial dynamics of intended or presumed community may or may not have been elucidated in the philosophy of Richard Levins. Ask the Levins scholars and the co-contributors to the forthcoming Festschrift from his highly accomplished scientific students. MaynardClark (talk) 14:06, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

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