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Re: [Marxism] Heated reaction to racism at Slate.com





On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:20:27 -0500 Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> NY Times, December 1, 2007
> I.Q. Debate Adds a Chapter Online
> By PATRICIA COHEN
>



>
> Linda S. Gottfredson, a sociologist at the University of Delaware,

See
http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Gottfredson

Her work has been financed by Rushton's
Pioneer Fund.

> insists that Mr. Saletan has nothing to apologize for. Ms.
> Gottfredson,
> who along with Mr. Flynn had been participating in a separate
> monthlong
> online debate about intelligence sponsored by the libertarian Cato
> Institute, wrote that Mr. Saletan ?may be the first journalist to so
>
> directly acknowledge the scientific evidence? supporting a genetic
> explanation for racial differences in I.Q. ?and to be allowed to
> publish
> his views.?
>
> She calls the fierce response generated by the Slate articles
> evidence
> of ?moral panic.? Ever since the 1970s, Ms. Gottfredson said in an
> interview, most researchers have steered clear of the subject
> altogether
> (Mr. Murray aside). ?No one wants to stick their neck out and say
> what
> they really think for fear that they?ll get shot down like Watson or
>
> criticized,? she said. ?People are in hiding.?
>


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