[Sasparilla]

I”ll bid 99¢ for Obama’s.

[The_Reader_David]

All of this is part and parcel of the secular left not really believing in Darwinian evolution, just wanting it as a creation myth with which to displace Christianity.

If one really believes in Darwinian evolution, it is impossible to credit the notion that human populations living in vastly different environments (the African rainforest, the African savannah, Siberia, the Mediterranean basin, Scandinavia,...) for tens of thousands of years would not develop measurably different characteristics of a non-cosmetic nature, including cognitive characteristics. Of course, evolution being a slow process and almost all measurable human characteristics having some survival utility in almost all environments, one would expect the distributions of the measurable characteristics to overlap, but one would expect the means and standard deviations to vary in some way on the basis of the different selection pressures afforded by the radically different environments.

[bigbob]

Recall what they did to William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor, after he started speaking about race.

[vetvetdoug]

Watson is analytical and speaks what he sees is truth based on facts, not PC. Given the average intelligence of Liberians which is below normal, his statements are based in logic. He is being vilified on PC, not what is real.

[Ohioan]

Of course, the attack on Watson is insane. Consider this, the only category of things, organic or inorganic, animate or inanimate, that are of major interest to people, of which we do not eagerly still study the attributes of the sub-categories, are the types of Mankind. (See Footnote On Egalitarianism,)

I do not suggest that we ought to disparage any race or species. But this deliberate promotion of ignorance is a profound disservice to all of us, of every race, sub-race, or other definable classification. It is the equivalent of the mythical ostrich with its head buried in the sand. How can anyone possibly benefit from not looking at the realities of life?

Incidentally, Jefferson deplored the lack of such studies in his day.

William Flax

[Sherman Logan]

Media witch hunting is a fundamental wrong, no matter who the target witch may be.

Don't entirely agree. Witch hunts were wrong because there were no witches.

A media "witch hunt" against people who really are trying to destroy our society might not be wrong, if kept within appropriate bounds so that innocents were not hurt. It might more appropriately be called exposure.

Burning witches is wrong.

Actually, burning anybody is wrong.

The attacks on Watson were wrong because they misstated his true opinions, not because they described them accurately. They were also based on politics, not science.