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Category Archives: HBD
Razib Khan Fired From NYT
When I read the other day that the excellent Razib Khan was among the coderie of newly-hired NYT opinion writers, I scratched my head. After all, Khan writes the GNXP blog and is a proponent of the reality of HBD … Continue reading
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Out-of-Africa Migration Selected Novelty-Seeking Genes
From New Scientist: AS HUMANS migrated out of Africa around 50,000 years ago and moved across the planet, evolution may have latched onto a gene linked to risk-taking and adventurousness. The idea, first put forward by Chuansheng Chen at the … Continue reading
NYT: When Racism Was a Science
Here is how a hilariously hysterical NYT article titled “When Racism Was a Science” begins: An old stucco house stands atop a grassy hill overlooking the Long Island Sound. Less than a mile down the road, the renowned Cold Spring … Continue reading
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‘The Nation’ on Evolutionary Psychology
In The Nation (of all Rousseaun places) is a good article on the appeal and potential flaws (namely, tautology) of evolutionary psychology as an explanatory schema.
Posted in Evolution, HBD, Psychology
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Low IQ Reports on Lower IQs
Here’s a Daily Mail article on “Are we becoming more STUPID? IQ scores are decreasing“. It attempts to address the phenomenon of Western countries experiencing a decline in average IQ, that is, the average IQ for the society as a … Continue reading
Discrimination as Ingroup Favoritism (Not Outgroup Hostility)
How did this brief article, by Eliana Dockterman, get past the Time editors? (“Sometimes Discrimination Is More About Favoritism Than Hostility, Research Says“): Most cases of recent prejudice stem from preference for the ingroup, not hate for the outgroup. Discrimination … Continue reading
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The Strange Evolution of Eugenics
Another wonderful post by Steve Sailer in TakiMag (“The Strange Evolution of Eugenics“), the jumping off point being Nicholas Wade’s new book A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History. Sailer notes the reception of Wade’s book is breaking down … Continue reading
Charles Murray on Nicholas Wade’s “A Troublesome Inheritance”
With respect to HBD and race realism, the book of the year will undoubtedly be Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History. Arguably more important than Wade’s command of the material is the fact that he is … Continue reading
Derb on Jewish Eugenics
Anytime John Derbyshire mentions Kevin MacDonald, it’s a good thing: The contradiction between the vigorous, unapologetic ethnonationalism of Jews in Israel and the horror of other peoples’ ethnonationalism expressed by Jews elsewhere has been a recurrent topic here on VDARE.com—see, … Continue reading
Scientific Racism’s Long History Mandates Caution, Experts Warn
Within even the scientific community, liberal pieties cloud one’s ability to see reason and evidence for what they are: a disinfectant to prejudice and superstition. In terms of empirical science, eventually, truth always prevails. There’s a Dark Enlightenment coming. It … Continue reading
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