Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 18th, 2009
Mark H. has the usual litany of complaints about studying links between race and intelligence: such studies will confirm prejudice, it’s all really biased, it will fuel “racism” and “sexism,” it is “despicable racist nonsense,” such views are “disgusting,” yada yada yada, you get the picture. All of this raises the question: from whose point [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 17th, 2009
Daniel MacArthur points to two recent essays in the latest issue of Nature about whether or not scientists should study correlations between race and intelligence. Stephen Ceci and Wendy M. Williams argue in the affirmative; Steven Rose (Jew) of Not in Our Genes fame argues in the negative.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 11th, 2009
Briefly Noted
Here’s the Charles Darwin that Greg Laden and PC Myers would much love for us to forget. Hat tip to Steve Sailer:
There is however no doubt that the various races when carefully compared and measured differ much from each other as in the texture of the hair, the relative proportions of all parts of [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 9th, 2009
Briefly Noted
Unsurpisingly, Greg Laden has relapsed into making traditional racial and ethnic distinctions (he notes the racial difference in height between Europeans and Pygmies), which only a few days ago he claimed were too ambiguous to discern. In this post, Greg speaks of “Euro-Americans” and a group of Pygmies called the “Efe” with whom he interacted with [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2009
Briefly Noted
Greg Laden doesn’t believe in the concept of race. Fun ensues.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 5th, 2009
Briefly Noted
I mentioned this in the comments of the previous thread. The Cochran and Harpending interview about their new book The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution can be found here (part one), here (part two), here (part three), here (part four), and here (part five).
Briefly: The book is a discussion of the last 10,000 years [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2009
Briefly Noted
The genome of Neanderthals, which are classified as a separate species, is over 99% indentical to that of modern humans. More proof that “race doesn’t exist.”
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2009
Re: silver mk. 4
I don’t care about the “hearts and minds” of the masses. I’m not going to change what I am saying to please anyone. This project of mine is analagous to a stamp collection. I like to collect information about the racial history of the United States and order it for my own [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2009
At Free Media Productions, Iceman makes a few controversial points about American racialists. Here is my response:
1.) Jews did play a major role in the demise of American racialism.
2.) Negroes and American Indians were not assimilated into American culture at the time when they were extended citizenship.
3.) The idea that America is a “nation [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 1st, 2008
At Takimag, a debate about race and culturalism, including a fabulous claim that Thomas Jefferson was an anti-racist environmentalist.
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