Editing Jared Diamond (section)

=== "Vengeance is Ours" controversy (2008) ===<!-- NOTE TO EDITORS: the following passage about the controversy surrounding Diamond's article "Vengeance is Ours" has been extensively discussed to ensure it does not give undue weight to the issue; please consider any changes carefully, and/or raise them on the talk page beforehand. -->
In 2008, Diamond published an article in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' entitled "Vengeance Is Ours",<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Diamond |first=Jared |author-link=Jared Diamond |date=14 April 2008 |title=Vengeance Is Ours |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/vengeance-is-ours |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref> describing the role of revenge in tribal warfare in [[Papua New Guinea]]. A year later, two indigenous people mentioned in the article filed a lawsuit against Diamond and ''The New Yorker'', claiming the article defamed them.<ref name="science">{{Cite journal |last1=Balter |first1=Michael |author-link=Michael Balter |date=May 2009 |title='Vengeance' Bites Back at Jared Diamond |journal=Science |volume=324 |issue=5929 |pages=872–874 |doi=10.1126/science.324_872 |jstor=20493922 |pmid=19443760}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Maull |first=Samuel |date=April 22, 2009 |title=Author Jared Diamond sued for libel |work=The Huffington Post |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090422/us-jared-diamond-lawsuit/ |url-status=dead |access-date=2023-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322090107/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090422/us-jared-diamond-lawsuit/ |archive-date=2016-03-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Smillie |first=Dirk |date=October 19, 2009 |title=Fresh Legal Jab At 'The New Yorker' |newspaper=[[Forbes]] |url=https://www.forbes.com/2009/10/18/papua-jared-diamond-business-media-new-yorker.html |url-status=dead |access-date=February 8, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091125013811/http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/18/papua-jared-diamond-business-media-new-yorker.html |archive-date=November 25, 2009}}</ref> In 2013, ''[[The Observer]]'' reported that the lawsuit "was withdrawn by mutual consent after the sudden death of their lawyer."<ref name="guardian012013">{{cite news |last=McKie |first=Robin |author-link=Robin McKie |date=January 5, 2013 |title=Jared Diamond: what we can learn from tribal life |newspaper=[[The Observer]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jan/06/jared-diamond-tribal-life-anthropology |access-date=January 5, 2013}}</ref>