Beat a four-year-old bloody, by his own account. And apparently admitted that in his fury, the switch was wrapping around the child's leg and struck him in the testicles at least once. Even Peterson seemed to realize how extreme it was, promising to use "time outs" more often in place of corporal punishment. I hope the people who are ready to step in with "he was just disciplining his child" will keep that in mind.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
