The “racial intelligence” bulldozer that James Watson set rolling a couple of weeks back is still whirring in our backyards as the new row over superior Jewish IQ scores is begging media attention.
This time the perpetrator is the Bell Curve fame Charles Murray and his American Enterprise Institute. I am not going into [...]
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Jews Asians Whites and Blacks… I.Q myths and racism.
Posted in Behavioural Psychology, Brainscapes, Evolutionary biology, Public Understanding of science, Science and society, evolving intelligence on November 4, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Evolutionary Socialism: Still more to talk about !
Posted in Evolutionary biology, Philosophy of science, Politics of science, Public Understanding of science, Science and society, evolving intelligence on July 7, 2007 | 8 Comments »
The previous article, Why Should Darwinism be Capitalistic?, invited criticism from many of my ‘evolutionist’ friends. Some were against the anti-deterministic underpinnings of the article – they were reluctant to come to terms with the ‘Nature via Nurture’ hypothesis. Others were against my suggestion that Darwinism can be supportive of Socialism rather than capitalism. What [...]
T-rex : Is the king-lizard of Jurassic Park losing its stand?
Posted in Evolutionary biology, Paleobiology, Public Understanding of science on June 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ever since its discovery, Tyrannosaurusrex, paleontologists and laypeople have been mesmerized by the sheer enormity of this giant carnivore. Every time a new discovery or debate concerning T-rex pops up, it attracts fans from every field; very few historical things have enjoyed such phenomenal popularity – the Titanic, the Pyramids etc are a few on [...]
Gigantoraptor : The New Bird on the Block!
Posted in Evolutionary biology, Paleobiology on June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A new bird from the family of Oviraptors (the egg-stealers among dinos) has been discovered by paleontologist Xing Xu and team of the Beijing’s Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in the Gobi Desert in north-central China.
Initially thought have belonged to the T-rex family (see artists scale- drawing), this giant “bird of prey” is [...]
Intelligent Design: The New Trojan horse of Creationism
Posted in Defending Darwin, Evolutionary biology, Religion And Beliefs, Science and society on June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s chief astronomer has declared that “intelligent design” isn’t science and doesn’t belong in science classrooms, the latest high-ranking Roman Catholic official to enter the evolution debate raging in the United States.
The Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said placing intelligent design ideas alongside the [...]
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