…in CHE. What happened to his wife, the evolutionary biologist Carol Hooven, is really awful, and should perhaps remind the zealots that there are human costs to their sanctimonious crusades. Byrne does not come off, per the article’s title, as a “smug dickhead” (unlike the pathetic Twitter pest Jonathan Weisberg who called him that!).




I first met Tom around 2002. I was a graduate student in Philosophy at UVA and dating someone who was…