Of Moths and Men

Of Moths and Men

Cover of the British edition, showing a display cabinet with the peppered moth removed.
Author	Judith Hooper
Language	English
Publisher	Norton
Publication date	2002
Pages	377
ISBN	0-393-05121-8
OCLC	50022818
Dewey Decimal	576.8/2/092 B 21
LC Class	QH375 .H66 2002

Of Moths and Men is a book by journalist Judith Hooper about the Oxford University ecological genetics school led by E.B. Ford. The book specifically concerns Bernard Kettlewell's experiments on the peppered moth which were intended as experimental validation of evolution. She highlights supposed problems with the methodology of Kettlewell's experiments and suggests that these issues could invalidate the results obtained, ignoring or disparaging evidence supporting natural selection while repeatedly implying that Kettlewell and his colleagues committed fraud or made careless errors.^[1] Subject matter experts have described the book as presenting a "conspiracy theory" with "errors, misrepresentations, misinterpretations and falsehoods". The evolutionary biologist Michael Majerus spent the last 7 years of his life systematically repeating Kettlewell's experiments, demonstrating that Kettlewell had in fact been correct.