Scene:
Normie couple doing IVF with family history of mental illness pick the best embryo to ensure their child has a much reduced risk.
Enter Kevin.
Kevin: BUT THAT’S EUGENICS!
Doctor Chad: Yes.
End scene.
An example of bizarre Wikipedia bias:
If you click through the three citations for evidence of Richard Lynn calling himself a 'scientific racist', you find no evidence. Only circular referencing.
Two of those sources are the Guardian and the NYT, probably quoting the SPLC.
Professor Clark applied to the National Science Foundation for research funding to investigate the role of genetics in social status persistence.
He was told: We should NOT spend ANY money on research that wouldn't allow us to increase social mobility.
Please spread this clip!
Saw this video floating around Twitter. It's French immigrant schoolchildren being asked whether they feel French. Quite sad.
Anyway, I replaced the Spanish subtitles with English so more people can understand:
The Body Keeps the Score has spent 240 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and sold over 2 million copies worldwide.
However, many of the empirical claims do not withstand scientific scrutiny...
From Ben and Bo Winegard:
Why is French fertility comparatively high (TFR = 1.84)?
The large number of migrants? No. Even though 1 in 5 births in 2017 were to immigrant mothers (143,000 out of 760,000), this barely raises the TFR by 0.1.
It's mainly because fertility among native-born women is high.
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Why does a radical left activist site - intent on destroying controversial thinkers - have such a high Google ranking?
Why do mainstream journalists quote this website?
It started as an enclave of New Atheists...
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Professor Richard Lynn, one of the most cited, important, & controversial British psychologists, has died.
More people read & plagiarised him than would ever admit it. He regularly corresponded with leaders in psychology & genetics.
We will publish our interview after summer.
If you haven't heard about this incredible study by the economist Greg Clark (
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The 17th century showed the same persistence of social status as the year 2020.
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1/6 Black Americans are smarter than the average white person.
That's 7 million blacks.
'Everybody should write that on the back of their hand.'
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@Steve_Sailer
)
The full interview is out on Saturday for supporters. Link in bio.
Apparently accurately quoting French police is an evil that can’t be tolerated!
As for the ‘race pseudoscience’, what…you mean publishing a careful review of evidence on possible genetic differences above the neck?
Door is always open if you want to submit a critique!
There is some particularly nasty stuff appearing on Aporia’s feed (shudder to think what they can’t put online). Very disappointing to see academics engaging with a group of individuals who are working so hard to promote race pseudoscience and resurrect eugenics
‘When people select for height on dating apps, they often end up filtering out over half the population. That means, if they really thought about it (which I don’t think they do) they care about height more than everything else, including moral character, intelligence…that’s
Ten researchers reveal the smartest people they've EVER met!
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Are white identity politics inevitable, even desirable?
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A standard deviation difference between groups on a trait with 80% within-group heritability requires an environmental difference of 2.2. SD. It is difficult to imagine an environmental variable or variables that meet these lofty demands.
Our latest:
Very artificial distinction! Replace IQ with ‘brain health’. High IQ is a prophylactic against mental illness. Hence one way to select against schizophrenia is to select for higher IQ. And the same genes that give you high intelligence also make you live longer. So yes, let’s
Smart, Funny, & Hot: Why some people have it all...
A professor of psychology explains why intelligence, personality, and even attractiveness often correlate:
The typical homicide victim in America has 10 or more prior arrests, and probably more than half have themselves committed a serious violent crime...
From
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:
A century ago, the world seemed rife with geniuses. It seems as if genius has been collectivized and that the days of the solitary thinker or creative genius, the great man or woman, have passed.
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Agnes Callard (
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) explains what she finds disconcerting & annoying about reductionist/evolutionary explanations.
A dream guest. Can't wait to release the full conversation for supporters on Saturday!
Progressives who criticize polygenic screening tend to use accusations of eugenics inconsistently, applying it to reproductive technology like polygenic screening but not abortion.
Our latest:
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Yes, but Americans all have dryers and big TVs.
How many people with 140 IQs live here? It’s mainly white losers.
Good food, community, beauty, & history are just another way of spelling C O P E.
Siena, in Italy, is surely one of the most beautiful places in the world.
But because of building regulations it is now illegal to design cities like this...
I would not claim the preceding analysis provides much evidence that diversity is bad for growth […] However, it provides no evidence that diversity is good for growth – which is what Hanania initially claimed.
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Cory Clark (
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It’s remarkable that there aren’t more car accidents when you consider the abilities of <100 IQ humans.
This shows the value of practise!
Even idiots can handle semi-complex tasks with enough of it.
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As South Africa becomes a failed state, we’d like to recruit a writer to cover the chaos from an HBD perspective, analysing the role of specific policies like affirmative action.
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Whenever I listen to neo-reactionaries or neo-monarchists talk about their love of dictatorship, one never gets the sense that they think they could ever be on the receiving end of some woke monarch’s whimsical diktat.
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"Magna est veritas, et praevalebit".
Our short tribute to Professor Richard Lynn (1930-2023).
The Dissident Psychologist will be available this Sunday.
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Emil Kirkegaard (
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) and Sasha Gusev (
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) have had some interesting exchanges on hereditarianism.
How about a moderated livestream conversation!
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If you’ve seriously studied human nature, history, economics…basically any complex system, you should distrust anybody with societal blueprints!
Whether they come from communists or neo-monarchists…run!
This is conservatism’s most powerful lesson.
Conspiracy beliefs among the UK public.
I assume they define Great Replacement one as some shadowy cabal initiating it. Otherwise it’s not much of conspiracy when one looks at demographic projections for 2050-2070 and assumes the official numbers are likely underestimates.
'As a species gets older, its populations will diverge more and more from each other for non-adaptive reasons, as each gene pool accumulates its own dross and dreck.'
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It’s a naive assumption to think civilisational decline is a straight line affair. It’s a zig zag. There’s a good chance that 30 years from now, we can prevent or cure most forms of cancer. There’s also a good chance that your risk of being murdered skyrockets.
Some aggressive rando thinks embryo selection for IQ won’t work because he’s done high school maths and read the Wikipedia for combinatorics.
Rich, when you’ve moved onto multivariate normal distributions, have another go.
One day you’ll be able to read this paper:
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Eh, the variance of single-gene trait is high so selection gives a big win; the variance of a trait with 1000+ genes is low so almost always all your embryos are going to be near the average. Flip a coin 1000 times and you get close to 500 heads.
Cremieux Recueil (
@cremieuxrecueil
) reviews the scientific literature on surrogacy for Aporia.
TL;DR: little evidence for harm to any parties involved, but possible exploitation of surrogate mothers has to be kept in mind.
Enjoy!
Genetic realism is often to used to advance runaway neoliberal policies, which do not follow from the data.
Acknowledgement of innate differences in ability is an argument for redistribution and economic protection, not against them.
A great question I often get from friends interested in genetics: How do we know if a SNP is additive?
First, put simply: 'additive' means that the effect of an allele (a version of a gene) on a trait (say IQ) is independent of other alleles.
This is what GWAS is for. We code
A weirdo who uses Noam Chomsky's full name on Twitter thinks that someone (me) who wrote their UG thesis on Chomsky, has a drawing of him (gifted by a student), & a signed copy of Manufacturing Consent, is "pretending to admire" him in order to spread "race science".
Lunatics.
@CathrynTownsend
He started out as a YouTube channel called “Ideas Sleep Furiously”. English guy, Oxbridge grad I think. I would get recommended his videos when he was getting like 0 views. He pretended to be an admirer of Chomsky, but it was obvious he was just going for the JAQ crowd.
Romans practiced liberal eugenics. Spartans—where an official inspected your newborn baby—engaged in state-sponsored eugenics. Roman civilisation lasted considerably longer and was more prosperous than Spartan civilisation.
From
@_HelenDale
:
South Korea’s fertility rate has been stuck below one birth per woman for decades despite an estimated $120bn being spent on initiatives aimed at raising it.
📽️ Richard Lynn: The Dissident Psychologist 📽️
In case you missed our interview with the late great Professor Richard Lynn.
The last ever published interview with him:
Scientific and technological advances have permitted a new voluntary and moral form of “eugenics” that is too powerful to ignore. While many may find this vision of the world distasteful, we must face reality for the betterment of humanity.
What kind of society do we create if human nature is no longer a limitation?
Toby Young joins us to discuss (among other things) embryo selection vs meritocracy:
30% of Jews are left handed, compared to about 10% of white gentiles. Why are Jews so left-handed? Could it have to do with their high rates of leftism, and their wealthy, urban, mutation inducing ancestral conditions?
The Dissident Psychologist: Richard Lynn's last published conversation.
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WHY MOTHERS MATTER!
The plot shows the association between Maternal supportiveness ratings at age five and Verbal IQ Scores at age 18. The bivariate correlation between the variables was r - .59.
If a species is not to melt down under the hard rain of accumulating mutations, the rate at which harmful mutations are introduced must equal the rate at which selection removes them (mutation-selection balance).
-- John Tooby
@cgnpsy
Can’t tell if you’re being serious, but I shall give you the benefit of the doubt. It’s absolutely possible. After all, there’s no sound on the video. We have no idea whether she made a comment about his hair or “exotic” accent. Whilst his response would not be appropriate, it
The chilling effect of fuzzy boundaries is a good point. The more important point is that it allows you to selectively persecute the outgroup while being lenient to similar misdemeanours from ideologically aligned members of the in-group. It allows for discretionary enforcement.
If you only watch 3 minutes 30 seconds worth of video today, let it be this!
Cory Clark (
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) discusses the clever woke tactic of Fuzzy Boundaries...
Russell Warne (
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) demonstrates how it's perfectly possible to have a cordial, scientific discussion about race differences in IQ without feeling you need to firebomb somebody's house for a hypothesis.
Full conversation drops for supporters tomorrow!