Obama Adviser Argued: Kids from Big Families Have Lower IQs

Cybercast News Service ^ | 2/22/12 | Terence P. Jeffrey

[Nachum]

(CNSNews.com) - John P. Holdren, the top science adviser to President Barack Obama, wrote in a book he co-authored with population control advocates Paul and Anne Ehrlich that children from larger families have lower IQs.

The book—"Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions"—argued that the United States government had a “responsibility to halt the growth of the American population.”

“It surely is no accident that so many of the most successful individuals are first or only children,” wrote Holdren and the Ehrlichs, “nor that children of large families (particularly with more than four children), whatever their economic status, on the average perform less well in school and show lower I.Q. scores than their peers from small families.”

Holdren and the Ehrlichs published "Human Ecology" with W.H. Freeman and Company in 1973. In June 2000, a study published in American Pyschologist debunked the notion that children in larger families have lower I.Q.s. But when Holdren appeared in the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in 2009 for a confirmation hearing on his appointment to run the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, he continued to argue for the benefits of “smaller families” on other bases.

[COBOL2Java]

Let me guess: Wilhelm Reich cut his own hair? Without a mirror?

[liberalh8ter]

It's a bit ironic that those who advocate the loudest for eugenics and abortion are the very same whose absence we would all benefit the most from.

[Vision]

They scare you because they’re evil.

[sportutegrl]

A judge in Mass has already attempted to force a woman to have an abortion and be sterilized. He was overturned, but the unthinkable is now becoming possible.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I blame the orgone. Probably all that static electricity in the box.

[TXnMA]

Physical chemist -- and AGW is crap -- and definitely not "good" science...

BTW, I love how posters/posers twitch when you throw their own words right back at them - never fails!

[Ernie Kaputnik]

Why? Are you twitching, Poser?

[GOPJ]

The French are VERY intelligent. Small families - lots of liberal ideas. In less than 200 years there will be NO french. France will be a Muslim country. Populated by Muslims who believe in large families. But if you average the IQ’s of the grave yards (in France) over the past 100 years, the French ( well FORMER French people) will have had higher IQ’s... for all that it matters.