フォードはバーナード・ケトルウェルによるオオシモフリエダシャクのメラニン蓄積の進化に関する有名な実験を監督した。1998年に昆虫学者マイケル・マジェラスは著書『メラニズム:進行中の進化』でケトルウェルの実験手法に向けられた批判を議論した[15]。この本はレビューでゆがめられ、そして創造論者の反進化論キャンペーンに引用された。ジュディス・フーパーは『Of Moths and Men』(2002)でフォードの監督とケトルウェルの関係を批判的に紹介して、研究がでっち上げであるか少なくとも役に立たないものだとほのめかした。
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