Why have biologist Randy Thornhill and anthropologist Craig Palmer been accused of being ideological, of justifying rape, and of blaming the victim after the publication of their 2000 book A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion, not only in countless reviews in the popular press, but also by serious academics (e.g., Kimmel 2003; Shields and Steinke 2003; Rosser 2003; Wertheim 2000)?
