I thought JG is a hero - until I read her autobiography. Now I think she is an untrained pseudoscientist, whose pioneering effort in observation of wildlife has to be weighed against her flawed, ideological anthropomorphisizing analysis. The validity of her observations is limited by her highly intrusive presence and is considered subjective by those who's peer she would like to be. The word on the street among wildlife biologists is that she is an egomaniacal bitch (hearsay alert).

Her epic publicity whoredom has raised awareness of great apes but her barely literate nuttiness has contributed to the view that wildlife advocates are all hippie douchebags. This week she was on the radio making an earnest case for the existence of bigfoot: You see, more than one culture has similar myths and the reason there is no evidence is that they are too smart and probably bury their dead - a fine example of her imbecile reasoning. If you go (50$, really?) make sure to ask her about the Loch Ness monster and the easter bunny.

By the way, the visionary genius behind this overgrown little girl who likes to play with animals is Louis Leakey. Google him.

Ask anyone involved in the large chimp sanctuaries in Oklahoma and Louisiana-- Goodall is no hero. She can be bought. Here's how it works-- Goodall acts "concerned" about conditions at a lab using chimps, the pharma brings out Goodall for a very generous "honorarium" or "speaking fee", and Goodall's suddenly very silent on the matter. One notorious example of where this happened where the 25 chimps at the University of Oklahoma who made fame in National Geographic for their sign-language abilities and were then sold off into very cruel pharmaceutical labs, where the chimps signed the word "out" from their cages constantly. Jane was "concerned", until she was paid a $250K speaking fee to give her approval of the situation.