The claim that we are “entitled to our opinion” is a professed appeal to the principles of liberty and free speech, when in reality it undermines those principles.
For some time now, the term stereotype has connoted one aspect of prejudice, and this linkage between stereotyping and prejudice isn’t altogether unfair.
Feminism wasn’t always this censorious. The university feminists of today do not reflect the motives of the classical past of their movement.
As we have noted before, crime is heritable. And yet, there is no crime gene.
Notes on an illuminating and dispiriting exchange.
Trump has parlayed the fear, loathing, and restlessness of those who feel left behind by postindustrial America into an impressive presidential campaign.
The violence surge continued into fall. Homicides in Baltimore reached their highest per capita rate in the city’s history.
Because of its emphasis on the heritability of acquired characteristics, Lysenkoism found itself at home and became an official dogma of Communist ideology.
“Gender Stereotypes Just As Prevalent in 2016 As In The 1980s, New Study Finds, So Maybe Things Aren’t As Great As We’d Like To Believe.”
The ability to digest dairy products as adults is likely to be adaptive owing to its increased nutritional benefits (sugars, as well as fat, protein and calcium) and milk’s role as an important drinking source in arid regions.
If the Diversity whingers were interested in solving problems, they’d have focused on these issues long ago.
Quantitative genetic work on human behavior has also had its time in the spotlight as arguably the most controversial subject in science.
I listen to you time and time again, while you tell me just what’s right…
In this age of sexual equality and non-discrimination, it increasingly looks hypocritical and inconsistent to support both the legitimacy and legality of male circumcision and, at the same time, the unacceptability and illegality of FGC.
For six decades, social scientists have almost universally treated intolerance as a negative social disease.