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Alderson and Doyle have also done some nice work critiquing the "New Science of Complex Networks" paradigm from an engineering perspective. One of their papers is cited in the "Bits of DNA". See here for another one:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5477188


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In what concerns the power law extravaganza, a prequel to certain
points in Lior Pachtel's critique of Barabasi is reminiscent of
certain older alerts written by Cosma Shalizi:

http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/491.html
http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/power-laws.html

and in the 2009 SIAM Review paper of Aaron Clauset, Cosma Shalizi & Mark Newman:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062

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