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''Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon'' (2000) is a polemical book by author Patrick Tierney. It accuses geneticist James Neel and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon, of conducting human research without regard for their subjects' well-being while conducting long-term ethnographic field work among the indigenous Yanomamö, in the Amazon Basin between Venezuela and Brazil. He also wrote that the researchers had exacerbated a measles epidemic among the Native Americans. While the book was positively reviewed and well received at first, later investigations by multiple independent organizations found Tierney's main allegations to be false and libelous. ==Major claims and evaluations of these claims== Claims made in ''Darkness in El Dorado'' included the following: * Napoleon Chagnon and James Neel directly and indirectly caused a genocide in the region through the introduction of a live measles vaccine that was insufficiently attenuated. This claim has been refuted.〔〔〔 *The Yanomami project was an outgrowth and continuation of the Atomic Energy Commission's secret program of experiments on human subjects. This claim has been refuted.〔 *Chagnon's account of the Yanomami are based on false, non-existent or misinterpreted data, and Chagnon incited violence among them. Related claims and ethical issues have been the subject of much academic debate. *French researcher Jacques Lizot, a protégé of Claude Lévi-Strauss, traded various uncustomary homosexual favors from Yanomamo boys after introducing shotguns and other foreign commodities into the community in what Tierney called "shotgun-driven prostitution".〔Borofsky, p. 10〕 Despite receiving critical support during a subsequent inquiry, these allegations attracted relatively little academic attention.〔Pels, p. 77〕 *The American researcher Kenneth Good married a Yanomami girl who was barely entering her teens. Good's autobiographical accounts describe a complex personal relationship that developed in the context of Yanomamo (as well as American) cultural norms. He recounts that, in keeping with local customs and community wishes, he was betrothed to his future wife when she was still a child. They consummated the marriage when she was aged about 15 or 16.〔[https://soundcloud.com/snapjudgment/yanomami-mami [Audio broadcast about Good, his Yanomamo wife and his son]〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Darkness in El Dorado」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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