No Voice at Vox — Sense and Nonsense on Discussing IQ and Race
We know that genes are not necessarily deterministic. They are probabilistic and we are learning how to change genes and their functional expression.
We know that genes are not necessarily deterministic. They are probabilistic and we are learning how to change genes and their functional expression.
We need a strategy that insulates us from hate, no matter what empirical research uncovers about the world.
Recommendations to drink eight glasses of water each day and eat no more than 2,000 calories daily are pretty much common knowledge.
Most modernists could be classified as centrists (either left or right-leaning), classical liberals and libertarians.
So adherents to an ideology constitute a race? Islam is a faith-based ideology, with nothing biologically inherent about it.
Understand the character of an insurgency. An insurgency is a movement. Insurgency need not be coordinated or centrally planned.
“The impulse to think that environmental sources of differences are less threatening than genetic ones is natural but illusory.” Charles Murray
Trump’s populist campaign has energized a political fringe tendency now known as the alt-right.
Public criticism of cultural appropriation, even in its more sober and reflective manifestations, duly narrows to a couple of apparent trends.
The desire to censor is not entirely impossible to understand. When you encounter an idiotic YouTube comment or forum post.
Most of the praise comes only from Classics teachers, or others easily impressed by a thin veneer of learning.
Nowadays, researchers can access a wealth of software packages that can readily analyse data and output the results of complex statistical tests.
For years we have been hearing that political correctness is cresting, that this-or-that campus outrage represents the last straw, the turning point.
Infection is constant problem and most farms use large quantities of antibiotics to control it.