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Lanier dismisses the controversy surrounding Sheldon and his somatotyping program and says critics are simply overreacting to the researcher's warped sense of humor...
...Sheldon had one irritating quality--a sarcastic sense of humor, which he thought was funny, but it would intimidate the stuffed shirts of the academic world," Lanier says...
...just thought he was being funny, he didn't stop to realize that people would take everything he said seriously," Lanier adds. "Sheldon might have made jokes about breeding super-human beings, but he didn't believe it. He was never a racist...
College administrators around the country may have realized this when they began to distance themselves from Sheldon and his work...
Sample says scientists realized that Sheldon's work had little scientific value. "Many thought his observations were overly subjective because he [alone] did most of the observation and ratings of his photographs," Sample says...