Stephen Metcalf hits back at Saletan, and leaves a mark:The crux of Saletan's pieces was his Liberal Creationist analogy. The analogy is hopeless along several competing dimensions, but it reminded me of the Dilettante's First Law of Empirical Narcissism. In a moment of controversy, the...
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Saletan:I missed something I could have picked up from a simple glance at Wikipedia.For the past five years, J. Philippe Rushton has been president of the Pioneer Fund, an organization.
And after all that, nothing. Saletan writes two columns purporting to demonstrate not simply that African-Americans are inherently intellectually inferior to whites, but that liberals who question this finding are.
This may be the single worst paragraph I've ever seen at Slate, and goddamn man, they employ Hitchens:I've been soaking my head in each side's computations and arguments. They're incredibly technical. Basically, the debate over the IQ surge is a lot like the debate over...
The one thing that's fairly clear is that William Saletan doesn't understand the most compelling extant critiques of linking ethnicity with IQ. I'm unsure of two things, however. First, is.