A collection of 12 posts
Why a Victorian obscenity trial tanked the birth rate, what the wellness industry gets wrong, and the case for choosing your baby's genes — with the internet's most data-obsessed anon.
We devote a lot of resources to trying to equalise student outcomes, but under ideal learning conditions, individual differences in student achievement widen.
Listen onSpotify Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve, talks to Toby Young about his new book Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class.
It seems fitting that twins (1) come in two types, (2) are fascinating at two levels and (3) enhance understanding of human development in two ways.
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.
If read early enough, Innate might provide some inoculation against bad or naïve information about human nature and the indisputable role played by genes.
“In fact, with the rise of the Offense Culture, the Left’s attacks on science have become more intense. Expect more of them.”
Plomin made it clear he wasn’t claiming genetic differences accounted for all the differences in how children turn out.
Are genetic castes inevitable?
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.
Despite the fact that low IQ is correlated with negative outcomes in a large number of areas and afflicts around 15 percent of the population, we seem incapable of treating it like any other public health problem.