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Mentioning Stoet & Geary 2018 is an immediate L
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Using an AI generated lady for your 4 view video on epistemic justice is next level
Who created epistemic injustice? - Your Civil Rights Guide Youtube
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Interesting paper by Nora Berenstain on Robin Andreasen who for some reason is defending race science, from within philosophy.

philpapers.org/archive/BERB...
Biological Race Realism and the Legacy of Racial Pseudoscience Nora Berenstain forthcoming in Australasian Journal of Philosophy
November 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Who's keeping a tally on race scientists promoting pedophilia ?
Diana Fleischman "Every few years activists make an impotent attempt to cancel Jerry Seinfeld for this, but it's always a bust". Picture of Seinfeld with a 17-year old "girlfriend"
November 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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David Duke called William Shockley his friend
"I dedicate this work to my friends, William Shockley"
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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February 2022 Philippe Rushton was a racist.
April 2022 he was and wasn't at the same time.
November 2025. I'm still trying to decipher Shermer's cognitive dissonance
"Indeed @Hallucigenia11 in response to your article the conservation organization—the E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation—denounced their founder's actions as “hurtful and harmful” & part of “the insidious effects of systemic racism.” Posthumous defamation https://eowilsonfoundation.org/e-o-wilson-rushton/ Michael Shermer @michaelshermer · Feb 4, 2022 E.g., the great cognitive psychologist Diane Halpern, who debunked The Bell Curve for me in Skeptic (https://skeptic.com/reading_room/skewed-logic-bell-shaped-curve/) authored an article defending academic freedom of scientists researching unpopular subjects 1 of whom was Rushton. I suspect this was Ed Wilson’s position Quote Michael Shermer @michaelshermer · Feb 4, 2022 reserve judgment @Evolutionistrue There’s a context for the Rushton affair. Ed was one of a number of scientists who defended his academic freedom even while detesting his race theories + Rushton took advantage of Ed’s niceness. https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/02/04/more-accusations-about-e-o-wilsons-raciem/ via @Evolutionistrue Michael Shermer @michaelshermer · Apr 7, 2022 In the current climate in which all matters related to race are radioactive & people get canceled for even the slightly racial gaff no matter the intentions, you @Hallucigenia11 had to know that associating Wilson with Rushton would do just that. You should retract that article. https://t.co/fvrG3larSy This post is unavailable. Michael Shermer @michaelshermer · Feb 6, 2022 Is it possible @Hallucigenia11 that Wilson (1) felt himself unfairly attacked by Gould/Lewontin, (2) was thus sympathetic to others so attacked (Rushton), (3) was naive in how Rushton used him, (4) didn't understand why Rushton's theory was wrong, (5) was not a racist? Nuance. " Glad I could cheer you up @Hallucigenia11 If I were you I’d be in the doldrums after the shalacking your article has received. Of course you think Rushton was a racist. I thought so too until I looked at the evidence. You should try that some day instead of motivated reasoning. "Clarification—our published defenses of E. O. Wilson against charges that he promoted the race science of Philippe Rushton ARE NOT DEFENSES OF RUSHTON'S PSEUDOSCIENCE. I stand by what I wrote in 1995 in our special issue on The Bell Curve (https://skeptic.com/magazine/archives/3.3/) that it's bogus" - Shermer The Wilson Foundation denounced him even while admitting that they hadn't even looked at the correspondence. They relied entirely on you. I didn't. I read the correspondence, and much more. You are wrong about Wilson and even about Rushton. You should have done your homework.
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Foundation for Economic Education doing a race science
"Wednesday, November 1, 1995 Race, Evolution, and Behavior J. Philippe Rushton Patrick Groff"
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Ulric Neisser met een positieve blurb op Phillipe Rushton's crakckpot boek.
"“Both Lynn (1997) and Rushton (1997) insist that racial differences in the mean measured sizes of skulls and brains (with East Asians having the largest, followed by Whites and then Blacks) support their genetic hypothesis. They rely on the averaged results of the many anthropometric studies reviewed by Rushton (1995) in his book Race, Evolution, and Behavior....there is indeed a small overall trend in the direction they describe.” — Ulric Neisser, Chairman of the American Psychological Association Task Force on Intelligence, American Psychologist"
November 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Laser Eyes Charles Mills .myfirstMSpaint
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Lmao there is no reason a pdf copy of this book should cost 100 dollars.
A New Morality from Science Beyondism Purchase options eBook (PDF) 35% off US $93.95 US $61.07 Applicable taxes will be calculated at checkout.
November 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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I'm curious what E.O. Wilson's contribution to Raymond Cattell's Beyondism was.
"For improvements and clarifications over the first volume of Beyondism, I am grateful first to certain eminent psychologists—often companions in technical research—notably, Professors John Horn, John Nesselroade, Richard Lynn, Richard Gorsuch. John Loehlin, Alan Welford, James Schuerger, Charles Cloninger, Garrett Hardin, as well as to Richard Herrnstein, John McArdle, Gregory Boyle, Arthur Jensen, Ronald Johnson, Joseph Royce, E. O. Wilson, Robert Woliver, C. D. Darlington, W. B. Shockley, Revilo Oliver, Geoffrey Ashton, and Rudolph Rummel, as well as Drs. Robert Graham, Nathaniel Weyl, Herbert Eber, Ivan Scheier, Wilmot Robertson, Roger Pearson, and John Gillis"
November 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Richard Lynn, surprised Thatcher policy didn't increase equality.

web.archive.org/web/20110925...
"looking back on these disputes of the 1960s and 1970s, I think all the points I made in my contributions were valid. We lost the battle to save the grammar schools, nearly all of which were closed down during the 1970s by Margaret Thatcher and Shirley Williams and replaced by comprehensives. But this has not achieved the social equality sought by progressives."
November 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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According to the Traditional Britain Group, Roger Pearson died in 2023.
British Conservatism · Gregory Lauder-Frost · Admin · poSeronstd 2 h72g36l8i 2 y 4 0 t0 u i 0 4 J 3 10fcmf0t2ahh l ai316 2 43l4631 · Another great man has also died this year, Dr. Roger Pearson, the anthropologist and author of numerous books including "Heredity and Humanity: Race and Modern Science". Photo of Roger Pearson as an officer in the British Indian Army, 1946.
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I.A. Newby (1967) Challenge to the Court
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Kamin's sources
November 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Just kind of disgusting how Ullica Segerstrale treats this history.
How she describes is, versus what happened.
It's clear that she has nothing and is grasping at straws. She has to end the debate in 1982 because after that Herrnstein got bodied.
"In this particular case, the 'facts' even include the exact quotation concerning the high percentages of different ethnic groups that were rated as 'feebleminded' in Goddard's early study (83 per cent of the Jews, 80 per cent of the Hungarians, 79 per cent of the Italians, and 87 per cent of the Russians). These statistics are repeated over and over again in the radical literature, usually giving Kamin, 1974 as a source (for example, Chorover, 1979; Lewontin, 1975b). (Incidentally and ironically, this much-quoted Kamin reference happens to refer to the wrong Goddard article—a fact enthusiastically noted by Herrnstein in interview, 1982." "In January 1982, to the American Psychologist's credit, it printed letters by Donald D. Dorfman, David Gersh, and Kamin, refuting Herrnstein's reply to Albee."(17) All three explained to Herrnstein precisely where to find the Goddard reference he had claimed to be unable to locate." https://web.archive.org/web/20210302021329/http://www.ferris-pages.org/ISAR/archives2/mental.htm "What makes Herrnstein's Comment so curious is that the proper citation appears two sentences below Kamin's (1974)" Quote in Kamin Science and Politics of IQ.
November 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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It's a scam but don't mind that
CBS Saturday Morning fluf program on Herasight (Herasight is a genetic screening company that charges $50,000 to allow hopeful parents to analyze embryos for genetic information like lifespan, height and IQ in life.)
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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The nazis created an intelligence test for their sterilization law?

No problem
In Germany, the National Socialist (i.e., Nazi) Party opposed intelligence research, seeing it as bourgeois. They also rejected g as being too theoretical and preferred a practical definition and measure of intelligence (Rindermann, 2018, p. 61).
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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There's this problem with Lynn's work on Irish IQ?

He's got youIrish IQ: The Massive Rise That Never Happened
Irish IQ: The Massive Rise That Never Happened
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Gould showed that the Army Test by Yerkes was a massive failure?

Let's revise
Stephen Jay Gould’s Analysis of the Army Beta Test in The Mismeasure of Man: Distortions and Misconceptions Regarding a Pioneering Mental Test Russell T Warne et al PMCID: PMC6526409
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Effective Altruism, oops all racism
"What is the chance that, when we finally have great data & can see the answer very clearly, we will find that there is actually zero genetic correlation between race and IQ? <1% 58.5% 1-50% 23.9% 50-99% 9.5% >99% 8.2%"
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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A propos, what the Roko's Basilisk people had to say about James Watson
Screenshot of LessWrong.com "Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK? by Eliezer Yudkowsky 26th Oct 2007 Idang Alibi of Abuja, Nigeria writes on the James Watson affair: A few days ago, the Nobel Laureate, Dr. James Watson, made a remark that is now generating worldwide uproar, especially among blacks. He said what to me looks like a self-evident truth. He told The Sunday Times of London in an interview that in his humble opinion, black people are less intelligent than the White people... An intriguing opening. Is Idang Alibi about to take a position on the real heart of the uproar?"
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Wow.
Order for "Challenge to the Court: Social Scientists and the Defense of Segregation, 1954-1966" - Newby (1967).
November 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Screenshot of Twitter search "No results for "from:Vermeullarmine "good society""
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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On the "CIA vampire" post going around: Funny that the CIA thinks "they are superstitious" rather than "they thought we were sick fucks for draining a body of all its blood and putting it somewhere".
October 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM