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Ricky Gervais[edit]

ricky gervais did a stand up piece on this book.

So what? I think that this is WP:UNDUE and should be removed. I can understand why the fact that Biological Exuberance was cited in Lawrence vs. Texas is here; this is certainly significant information. One attack on the book or parody by a comedian doesn't seem significant or worth including. Devil Goddess (talk) 20:26, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What about all the "In popular culture" sections?! Should we remove all those references from all articles too then? I agree with the OP here; a reference should be added for the RG stand-up. If the issue here is that it was an "attack" then the statement can simply say it was parodied or mentioned or whatever.

Please read Wikipedia:"In popular culture" content. All references in popular culture are not necessarily suitable for across the board inclusion in Wikipedia; rather, we have criteria in place to distinguish references that are noteworthy and warrant inclusion from ones that are just random trivia. I don't know enough about the Ricky Gervais routine to know which side of the line it falls on, but it's not automatically appropriate for inclusion just because it existed — it has to be noteworthy in some way beyond simply having happened. Bearcat (talk) 14:29, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Controversy[edit]

The article says nothing about why this book is controversial, so I removed that statement. If someone wants to talk about how it's controversial, then it can be put back in.96.21.160.108 (talk) 12:31, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Retracted[edit]

See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04animals-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Tgeorgescu (talk) 00:34, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

While the book, “Biological Exuberance,” by Bruce Bagemihl, was cited in a brief filed for the case, it was not cited in the decision itself.
— Jon Mooallem, Can Animals Be Gay?, New York Times Magazine, 31 March 2010

Quoted by Tgeorgescu (talk) 00:37, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]