Claims
- That Napoleon Chagnon and James Neel directly and indirectly caused a genocide in the region through the introduction of a live virus measles vaccine.
- That the whole Yanomami project was an outgrowth and continuation of the Atomic Energy Commission's secret program of experiments on human subjects.
- That Chagnon's account of the Yanomami are based on false, non-existent or misinterpreted data, and that Chagnon actually incited violence among them.
- That French researcher Jacques Lizot, protégé of anthropology icon Claude Lévi-Strauss, engaged in sex acts with Yanomamo boys (including oral and anal sex, as well as having the boys masturbate him).
- That Kenneth Good married a Yanomami girl who was barely entering her teens.
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