Nobel laureate who claimed blacks are genetically inferior stripped of titles
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Sometimes though, when I feel like being pointlessly anxious, I can't help but ponder the unsettling thought: What if he's not wrong, and we just want to think genetics are fair and equal
It was like, for just a moment, good ol' DainBramageStudios was back from the dead
Oh the memories
he's sadly had a long history of "hey I discovered dna so I'm an absolute authority on how it works, plus genetic inferiority!"
I feel they shouldn't have done that, because now you will have right wingers claiming ridiculous shit.
They were probably going to do that anyway. The reason a lot of crackpot intellectuals get their credentials revoked is because otherwise they could use them to legitimize their bullshit.
Right wingers will always have some ridiculous shit to claim, they'll just find something new.
If you're not going to use proper scientific methodology to do your research you no longer longer deserved to be called a scientist.
just credit the discovery of DNA's double helix to "Franklin and Crick, with some help from a now-disgraced scientist", job done. if I ever have a kid and she's a girl, I'd like her to be called Rosalind.
When I saw that the article had cited an "average verbal IQ" of 59 for equitorial Guinea, I assumed it was a joke (in extremely poor taste). According to Wikipedia, however, that number really was given by La Griffe du Lion's primary source, Richard Lynn [3]. On the other hand, Wikipedia also cites Hunt and Wittman's finding that a simple check of Lynn's citation shows that 59 was the "mean IQ of a group of Spanish children in a home for the developmentally disabled in Spain." That summarizes the reliability of Lynn's data, and all of La Griffe du Lion's IQ data come from Lynn.
Oh boy it's this asshole. He's getting a lot of mention in SH this week, thanks to people repeating shitty, racist bad statistics.
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