Response y: Conflict over the Molecular Clock

Abstract

Harvey Brooks and I well know, involved more unfounded models). The real critiques that I know of come from outside IIASA, for example, from an independent group in Britain studying "Models of Doom" (1).One essential difficulty with IIASA is that it does not appear to have an adequate critical mechanism, by discipline or by report review. IIASA suffers from its heritage of systems analysis, a field with no disciplinary tradition, from the burden of helping intemational cooperation (note the enthusiasm for cybernetics in the U.S.S.R.), and from its location in an discarded imperial palace on the outskirts of a city whose intellectual distinction lies well in the past.