Steve Sailer has published an item today about the late James D. Watson, who died last week at the age of 97. Watson, who won the Nobel Prize as the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, was driven from polite society decades ago for uttering heresies regarding the possible genetic basis, and varying distribution, of human cognitive and behavioral traits.
Read Sailer’s piece here.
PS: Please see, also, this item of mine from 2018, which addresses these issues (and shares a title with Sailer’s post), and this longer follow-up essay from a few days later.)
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Glad to see you are back at blog, Malcolm.
Some years back I posed a question over at FB to those who have taught college classes: who were your best students, race/ethnicity-wise? No one would touch it. The memory of what happened to Amy Wax was still fresh in their minds, I suppose. If and when we collapse lack of civil courage will be part of the explanation.
Your system wouldn’t accept my comment until I turned off my Proton VPN.
Well, I’m glad you got through! I do have some spam protection, but I’m not not sure if that’s a setting I can adjust. Will check.
Maybe I can put you on a “whitelist” or something.
PS: Yes, I’ve let the blog go quiet for too long. Thanks.