Prison or Peer Review
Nathan Cofnas: what was done and what was owed.
Intelligence
A collection of 14 posts
The Learning Crisis Begins Before the Classroom
Differences in height between men and women—a biomarker of stressor exposure in childhood—suggest that poor early health and nutrition constrain what children are achieving at school.
Institutional Failures in the Garden of Great Intellects
The Cofnas and Arday controversies show that on matters of race, administrators at Cambridge have failed to conduct deliberate checks, failed in probity, and failed in their tolerance for unsettled science.
Cambridge and the Stigmatisation of Intelligence Research
Nathan Cofnas joins a historical line of academics demonised for delivering unwelcome or upsetting news about group differences.
Selective Pressure, Selective Silence
David Reich and the politics of recent human evolution.
A Heterodox Education
The Constance Holden Memorial Address, 2025.
Why Is Most Journalism About IQ So Bad?
It is easy to create a negative image of intelligence research because most people know very little about the topic. But distorting intelligence research does a disservice to the field’s hard-working scientists and the general public.
Noah Carl: An Update on the Young Scholar Fired by a Cambridge College for Thoughtcrime
Unfortunately, St. Edmund’s College did the bidding of the protestors, launched two separate investigations and last month terminated Noah Carl’s employment.
Genes, Environment, and Luck: What We Can and Cannot Control
Should We Use Genetic Technology to Boost Human Intelligence?
Instead of using the label “eugenics” to discredit advocates of genetic enhancement, it would be more productive to ask what precisely we deem unacceptable and why.
Every Schoolchild Should Read This Book
If read early enough, Innate might provide some inoculation against bad or naïve information about human nature and the indisputable role played by genes.
What Does Genetic Research Tell Us About Equal Opportunity and Meritocracy?
Are genetic castes inevitable?
Is Sociogenomics Racist?
Those scientists who want to draw attention to the racial bias in genetic research but who don’t want to acknowledge the scientific validity of race are in a tricky position.
What the Alt-Right Gets Wrong About Jews
To understand the alt-right’s anti-Semitism, we must understand MacDonald’s ideas, particularly as outlined in his most influential book, The Culture of Critique.