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 »
Watson… Watson… where is your proof?
Posted in Politics of science, Public Understanding of science, Science and society, evolving intelligence on October 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The past week saw the greatest controversy in a year ignited by the seemingly racist comments of the 79 year old Nobel Laureate James Watson.
Watson who shared his Nobel with Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins for the discovery of the Double-helical structure of DNA, had always been at the helm of controversies mostly b’coz of [...]
Honey, we teleported the Kid!
Posted in Public Understanding of science, Science Journalism, Science and society on October 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Overzealous Science Journalism.
Scientists always keep complaining that the public doesn’t understand science. Yet university and lab newsroom reports of latest research claiming of “break-through” are becoming glaring examples of how sober facts of science can finally be contorted into flashy news totally detached from reality. Quite often it is seen that the researches themselves indulge [...]
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 [...]
Why Should Darwinism be Capitalistic?
Posted in Philosophy of science, Politics of science, Science and society on June 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Darwinian and neo-Darwinian ideas of natural selection, differential extinction and adaptive evolution have traditionally been linked to capitalistic views of “survival of the fittest”. As decades passed by, people including the scientific community at large began seeing Darwinian Laws of evolution (its not just a theory any more) as a justification for the greed, consumerism, [...]
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