Beatty, Michael J. and McCroskey, James C. “Theory, Scientific Evidence, and the Communibiological Paradigm: Reflections on Misguided Criticism.” Communication Education 49 (2000): 36-44.

In our brief essay, “A Few Comments About Communication and the Nature/Nurture Question” (This Issue), we directed attention to misrepresentation of our position and mthodlogical oversights contained in some of the challenges to our work. We thought our comments regarding those challenges would clarify our position. Evidently, that was not the case, Condit’s reply to our response (“Toward New ‘Sciences’ of Human Behavior,” Also This Issues) further misrepresents our position and our claims. On the dubious assumption that the merits of conflicting stances can be illuminated as a disagreement unfolds, we turn our attention to a general oversight driving Condit’s complaints about communibiology before turning to her inaccurate and misleading statements about our work and quantitative methods. (36)