Said the scientist who sadly illustrated the point ― his exceptional contributions to the science of evolutionary biology, and to the public awareness both of its findings and of its potential political misuses, counterbalanced by the damage he did to honest scientific debate by dogmatic strawman gaslighting ― misrepresenting the arguments underlain by the theoretical viewpoints he didn't like and likely never fully understood, by systematically overstating the political implications he saw in and occasionally read into them.

Context:

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1993/01/14/confusion-over-evolution-an-exchange/