Archive for the ‘Eugenics’ category

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Capitalism is Eugenic

March 10, 2010

 
The big news from Forbes’ list of the world’s wealthiest men is Carlos Sim overtaking Bill Gates for the top spot.  The magazine has a mini profile for everyone on the list.
Of the top 100, there are 85 men and 10 women for whom I could make out family information.  The men average 3.1 children [...]

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Yo-Yo Evolution

February 10, 2010

 
Here’s an excerpt from my newest column at VDare. 
A couple of months ago, I by accident came across a book called In God’s Image: The Natural History of Intelligence and Ethics. One of the blurbs on the back was written by Richard Lynn, so I thought it might be worth a look. However, I was unable [...]

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Evolution Gone Haywire

February 9, 2010

 
A video of an obese Minnesota woman with her new Haitian twins.  
We’ll see how much fun she’s having when they’re in high school and it’s clear her kids have IQs of 80.  “But I gave them everything!”
If there is one thing we can be sure evolution is selecting against in this modern world it’s [...]

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TNR: Eugenics Good and HBD True

January 30, 2010

 
University of Chicago law professor Richard Posner, writing in The New Republic, reviews a book on the American history of interracial marriage.  He points out that the author neglects that the main intellectual force behind the anti-miscegenation movement was eugenics.  
Laws against mixed marriage have been surprisingly rare outside the United States. Nazi Germany forbade [...]

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Answering Objections to Eugenics

December 17, 2009

 
Whenever I tell people I favor eugenics they tell me that the state shouldn’t have such power.  One thing that’s overlooked is that it already does.  As Hernstein and Murray wrote in The Bell Curve

…we are as apprehensive as most other people about what might happen when a government decides to social-engineer who has babies and [...]

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Jensen’s Famous Paper

November 30, 2009

 
 
I today for the first time read Jensen’s famous 1969 article “How Much Can We Boost IQ and School Achievement?” from Harvard Educational Review.  
 
Jensen actually says that the best way to improve IQ would be to breed smarter people.  He differentiates between positive eugenics, which he doesn’t think is going to happen, and negative [...]

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PC Vs. Evolution

November 24, 2009

Evolution is false because Darwin was a racist, sexist and Hitlerite.
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It really doesn’t matter if the average person believes in evolution or not. When they try to sully a work like Origins, however, they need to ruthlessly mocked.
CNN let a creationist write an op-ed, in which the author writes:
We are told that a consensus [...]