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Article: More on Ayn Rand. (comment on Jeffrey Walker's article, Free Inquiry, Summer 1994 and Walker's response) (Letter to the Editor)
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- Free Inquiry
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- December 22, 1994
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In the Summer 1994 FREE INQUIRY we published "Was Ayn Rand a Humanist?" by Jeffrey Walker. Some readers responded strongly to the author's criticism of Rand, and we print their reactions below. Jeffrey Walker then responds.
As I understand it, your publication is associated with the valiant efforts of some scholars to debunk pseudoscience and to raise the alarm as to the dangers of the methods and conclusions of pseudoscientists. If a "scholar" approached you with a paper on a topic for which he clearly had a strongly held emotional mind-set, sufficient to allow him to evade and misrepresent facts, let alone indulge in blatant sarcasm and ad hominem attacks, I would ...