“A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History is a 2014 book by Nicholas Wade, a retired science reporter for The New York Times.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Wade argues that “human evolution has been recent, copious and regional”[7] and that this has important implications for the social sciences.[8] The book has been widely denounced by scientists.[9][10]”
The book has not been well received by much of the scientific community, including many of the scientists upon whose work the book was based. On 8 August 2014, The New York Times Book Review published an open letter signed by 144 faculty members in population genetics and evolutionary biology. The letter read:
"As discussed by Dobbs and many others, Wade juxtaposes an incomplete and inaccurate account of our research on human genetic differences with speculation that recent natural selection has led to worldwide differences in I.Q. test results, political institutions and economic development. We reject Wade’s implication that our findings substantiate his guesswork. They do not.
We are in full agreement that there is no support from the field of population genetics for Wade’s conjectures.[9][10]"
I look forward to you “outmaneuvering” me to explain how the book you posted that you described as a “great book” but whose conclusions were denounced by the very scientists whose work led to the book with a direct quote stating “We reject Wade’s implication that our findings substantiate his guesswork. They do not. We are in full agreement that there is no support from the field of population genetics for Wade’s conjectures” is, in fact, a great book.
Literally, the scientists who did the work - 144 of them! - wrote and signed a letter stating that there is no support from the field of population genetics for Wade’s conjectures.
This is like posting Andrew Wakefield’s work on vaccines and calling it a “great book.”
And there are tons of scientists who say climate change is happening, but clearly that’s not political?
Do you think scientists are going to come out in support for something that says blacks are less intelligent than asians on average? It will literally kill their career, they can lose funding.
Recently a professor at the University of Toronto named Jordan Peterson lost his research grant for the first time in his career just after he said political correctness had gone too far and he refused to use gender neutral pronouns
Probably because a) no one cares b) no one wants to set policy to ensure a height standard, and c) everyone else understands height (or IQ) is literally 1 factor that means nothing by itself.
You don’t think a collective average IQ means anything towards success vs a different people group?
Not talking race - family, neighborhood, city, state, nation. Any of these.
