‘SEX O.K. AT TWELVE’ – CHANNEL 4 TV
A brave TV programme, ‘Sex before 16: Why the Law is Failing’ concluded that a third of British girls had sex before 16, and 12% before age 12. Presenter Miranda Sawyer concluded it would be right to lower the age of consent to 12 (as in Chile) so girls can seek help and advice without the fear that their boyfriend would be locked up, and she received the support of Edinburgh sociologist Angus Bancroft who bravely said “…we’re almost over-protecting [children] because of our fears of paedophilia”; but Sunday Telegraph reviewer John Preston concluded merely that “any MP wishing to commit career suicide by the swiftest and most effective means ever devised would do well to take up her cause” (23 xi).
SIGN OF INTELLIGENT LIFE AT SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
The top liberal-left newspaper of America’s most left-wing major city published an op-ed article (by a naturalized Chinaman belonging to a ‘Diversity Alliance’) concluding that immigration into California needed to be drastically cut back.
‘SAUDIS THE REAL TERRORISTS’
U.S. EXPERT Dr Daniel Pipes, a leading authority on the Middle East and Islam, declared what was long ago known to readers of this Diary (e.g. October, 2001), that Saudi Arabia was the real source of Islamic militancy. In a column titled ‘Make the Saudis pay for terror,’ Pipes (who holds an advisory post at the federally subsidized U. S. Institute for Peace) wrote of "the massive implication" of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the horror of 9/11 and cited U.S. intelligence showing that "Saudi princes are spending millions of dollars to help large numbers of al Qaeda and Taliban members escape the American dragnet." Pipes, who once taught at Harvard, also pointed out that several ‘liberal’ and ‘moderate’ Islamic leaders in the U.S. proved untrustworthy over the past year and had to be arrested.
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Thursday, November 27, 2003
IQ ON A WEE ROLL
Discussion of racial and national differences in IQ continued at three venues in China (as above); and Phil Rushton was able to get the following into the Vancouver Sun (18 xi).
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The Smarter the People, the Richer the Nation
A nation's prosperity is predicted by the average IQ of its population, according to research that has mapped global intelligence levels.
The recent book IQ and the Wealth of Nations by Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster, and Tatu Vanhanen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tampere in Finland, report the results of testing the non-verbal reasoning abilities in various countries. They found a remarkable range of differences in average levels of intelligence. They also discovered these different IQ levels predicted a country's rate of economic growth.
The authors examined data from more than 60 nations and found that national
IQs correlate powerfully with per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and
with Gross National Product (GNP). Second in importance for economic growth was whether the countries had market or socialist economies. Only third was the widely credited factor of natural resources, like oil or gas.
One arresting fact emerged: The average national IQ of the world is only 90.
Fewer than one in five countries have IQs equal or near the Canadian average
of 100. Almost half have IQs of 90 or less. This poses a serious problem if the book's conclusion that an IQ of 90 forms the threshold for a technological economy is correct.
The academics found that the countries of the Pacific Rim had the highest intelligence scores: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Singapore averaged IQs of about 105. The next brightest were the populations of Europe, the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, averaging 100. In South Asia, North Africa and most Latin American countries, the score was an average of about 85, and in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean closer to 70. This shows how wildly wrong is the widespread, though rarely stated assumption of economists and political scientists, that all peoples and nations have the same average IQ.
Nations whose people have high IQ levels also have high educational attainment and large numbers of individuals who make significant contributions to national life. They are more likely to develop efficient public services such as transport and telecommunications, which provide an efficient infrastructure, and are more likely to have intelligent political leaders who manage their economies effectively. On the flipside, nations with low levels of intelligence have low levels of educational attainment and few individuals who make significant contributions.
Some countries do have higher or lower per capita incomes than their national IQ averages would predict. This is where having a market or socialist economy or sitting atop a sea of crude oil or a field of diamonds comes in. Some of the countries with a higher per capita income than would be predicted from their average IQs are Australia, Austria, Bermuda, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Ireland, Qatar, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, and the U.S. Except for Qatar, South Africa, and Bermuda, all of these are technologically highly developed market economies. Qatar's exceptionally high per capita income comes from oil exports. Bermuda has a well developed tourist industry.
Some of the countries with lower per capita income than would be predicted from their average IQ are Bulgaria, China, Hungary, Iraq, South Korea, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Thailand and Uruguay. But why did the peoples of East Asia, with their high IQs, lag behind the European peoples until the second half of the 20th century? Well, China's science and technology were generally more advanced than Europe's for about 2,000 years, from about 500 BC to about 1500 AD. But in the 15th century, Chinese inventiveness came to an end and from that time on virtually all the important advances were made by Europeans, first in Europe and later in the U.S. The explanation might be that Europeans developed the market economy, while China stagnated through authoritarian bureaucracy and central planning.
Finally, Lynn and Vanhanen peer into the future. They predict future growth is most likely in countries with high national IQ scores, but currently have bad economic systems. The countries of the former communist bloc -- Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, the People's Republic of China, and Vietnam -- are good bets. The report shows that now the Chinese have introduced a market economy, their growth rate is rapid, about 10 per cent a year compared with about two per cent in Europe. China can be expected to reach parity with Europe and the U.S. in a couple of decades and become the new economic and military superpower.
J. Philippe Rushton is professor of psychology at the University of Western
Ontario and author of “Race, Evolution, and Behaviour: A Life-History Perspective”. This article is based on his review of the book “IQ and the Wealth of Nations”, which was published in the academic journal “Personality and Individual Differences”.
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‘BRITISH WAY’ FIND A GOVERNMENT SUPPORTER!
Following a massive suicide bombing by Muslim fanatics in Istanbul, junior Government minister Denis McShane urged Britain’s Muslim leaders to tell their flocks they should choose ‘the British way’ and reject terrorism. McShane was promptly denounced by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and half-chat Campaign for Racial Equality director Trevor Phillips; but he found support from ex-Marxist Times columnist Mick Hume who complained of the “self-loathing” of Britain’s muticulti-loving organizers of PeeCee.
COGNIBABBLING BEHAVIOURISM BITES DUST
In a major test of the ideas of ‘cognitive behaviour therapy’, the English Prison Service discovered it was totally useless – producing no drop in reconviction despite £150 million being spent for convicts to have classes in ‘Reasoning and Rehabilitation’ and ‘Enhanced Thinking Skills’ (Times, 18 x, Richard Ford, Home Correspondent).
Prisoners took courses involving twenty 2-hour sessions to help them with ‘anger management’ and suchlike, but the ‘treatments’ showed no effect two years after release; and among low- to medium-risk offenders the reconviction rate one year after leaving jail was actually higher for those who had been on the courses than for those who had not.
Excuses quickly followed. A probation officer enthusiast accsused the government of ‘obsession with targets’ which had led to unselected and unsuitable convicts being sent on the courses; and he complained there had been no follow-up. An equally therapy-crazed psychologist explained that cognitive behaviour therapy – which had taken thirty years and mega-bucks to develop, e.g. in Canada – was fine for depressives and neurotics but that “prisoners suffered for a variety of reasons including drugs and lack of job skills rather than deep-rooted psychological problems.”
The idea that Britain’s jailbirds, who typically have multiple serious convictions behind them, do not have “deep-rooted psychological problems” would amaze many psychologists -- for prisoners have high psychoticism and low intelligence as well as high neuroticism. Anyhow, the Home Office at least was unimpressed by the excuses and said it was resolved to slash cognitive behaviour therapy wherever it could be found.
PRINCE LABELLED ‘RACIST’
In a move that could furnish an answer to whether anybody at all in Britain – apart from myself and Richard Lynn – would get real with hysterical ‘anti-racists’, the front page of the LUniversity of Edinburgh’s Student newspaper carried criticism of Prince Philip’s record on race (19 xi, ‘Prince set to be ousted’). Urging that the Queen’s husband be sacked from his 51-year position as E.LU.’s Chancellor, student activist Jeremy Kemp said: “As a university, we are very proud of our multiracial and cosmopolitan make-up. Prince Philip just doesn’t fit in with this image. His questionable views of race and different cultures are well documented. I think a democratic election [via the LUniversity’s General Council] would give us a Chancellor who is more 21st century….” For good measure, Student threw in the Prince’s “infamous gaffe” when he asked a Scottish driving instructor how he ‘kept the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test.’
{What? The LUniversity “multiracial”? – There is scarcely a Black face to be seen in E.LU.’s busy George Square!} {Anyway, would the Prince move to slap down his ‘anti-racist’ accuser? Sadly, he did nothing overtly when given the opportunity to do so in my own case of 1996/7/8.}
Discussion of racial and national differences in IQ continued at three venues in China (as above); and Phil Rushton was able to get the following into the Vancouver Sun (18 xi).
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The Smarter the People, the Richer the Nation
A nation's prosperity is predicted by the average IQ of its population, according to research that has mapped global intelligence levels.
The recent book IQ and the Wealth of Nations by Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster, and Tatu Vanhanen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tampere in Finland, report the results of testing the non-verbal reasoning abilities in various countries. They found a remarkable range of differences in average levels of intelligence. They also discovered these different IQ levels predicted a country's rate of economic growth.
The authors examined data from more than 60 nations and found that national
IQs correlate powerfully with per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and
with Gross National Product (GNP). Second in importance for economic growth was whether the countries had market or socialist economies. Only third was the widely credited factor of natural resources, like oil or gas.
One arresting fact emerged: The average national IQ of the world is only 90.
Fewer than one in five countries have IQs equal or near the Canadian average
of 100. Almost half have IQs of 90 or less. This poses a serious problem if the book's conclusion that an IQ of 90 forms the threshold for a technological economy is correct.
The academics found that the countries of the Pacific Rim had the highest intelligence scores: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Singapore averaged IQs of about 105. The next brightest were the populations of Europe, the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, averaging 100. In South Asia, North Africa and most Latin American countries, the score was an average of about 85, and in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean closer to 70. This shows how wildly wrong is the widespread, though rarely stated assumption of economists and political scientists, that all peoples and nations have the same average IQ.
Nations whose people have high IQ levels also have high educational attainment and large numbers of individuals who make significant contributions to national life. They are more likely to develop efficient public services such as transport and telecommunications, which provide an efficient infrastructure, and are more likely to have intelligent political leaders who manage their economies effectively. On the flipside, nations with low levels of intelligence have low levels of educational attainment and few individuals who make significant contributions.
Some countries do have higher or lower per capita incomes than their national IQ averages would predict. This is where having a market or socialist economy or sitting atop a sea of crude oil or a field of diamonds comes in. Some of the countries with a higher per capita income than would be predicted from their average IQs are Australia, Austria, Bermuda, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Ireland, Qatar, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, and the U.S. Except for Qatar, South Africa, and Bermuda, all of these are technologically highly developed market economies. Qatar's exceptionally high per capita income comes from oil exports. Bermuda has a well developed tourist industry.
Some of the countries with lower per capita income than would be predicted from their average IQ are Bulgaria, China, Hungary, Iraq, South Korea, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Thailand and Uruguay. But why did the peoples of East Asia, with their high IQs, lag behind the European peoples until the second half of the 20th century? Well, China's science and technology were generally more advanced than Europe's for about 2,000 years, from about 500 BC to about 1500 AD. But in the 15th century, Chinese inventiveness came to an end and from that time on virtually all the important advances were made by Europeans, first in Europe and later in the U.S. The explanation might be that Europeans developed the market economy, while China stagnated through authoritarian bureaucracy and central planning.
Finally, Lynn and Vanhanen peer into the future. They predict future growth is most likely in countries with high national IQ scores, but currently have bad economic systems. The countries of the former communist bloc -- Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, the People's Republic of China, and Vietnam -- are good bets. The report shows that now the Chinese have introduced a market economy, their growth rate is rapid, about 10 per cent a year compared with about two per cent in Europe. China can be expected to reach parity with Europe and the U.S. in a couple of decades and become the new economic and military superpower.
J. Philippe Rushton is professor of psychology at the University of Western
Ontario and author of “Race, Evolution, and Behaviour: A Life-History Perspective”. This article is based on his review of the book “IQ and the Wealth of Nations”, which was published in the academic journal “Personality and Individual Differences”.
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‘BRITISH WAY’ FIND A GOVERNMENT SUPPORTER!
Following a massive suicide bombing by Muslim fanatics in Istanbul, junior Government minister Denis McShane urged Britain’s Muslim leaders to tell their flocks they should choose ‘the British way’ and reject terrorism. McShane was promptly denounced by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and half-chat Campaign for Racial Equality director Trevor Phillips; but he found support from ex-Marxist Times columnist Mick Hume who complained of the “self-loathing” of Britain’s muticulti-loving organizers of PeeCee.
COGNIBABBLING BEHAVIOURISM BITES DUST
In a major test of the ideas of ‘cognitive behaviour therapy’, the English Prison Service discovered it was totally useless – producing no drop in reconviction despite £150 million being spent for convicts to have classes in ‘Reasoning and Rehabilitation’ and ‘Enhanced Thinking Skills’ (Times, 18 x, Richard Ford, Home Correspondent).
Prisoners took courses involving twenty 2-hour sessions to help them with ‘anger management’ and suchlike, but the ‘treatments’ showed no effect two years after release; and among low- to medium-risk offenders the reconviction rate one year after leaving jail was actually higher for those who had been on the courses than for those who had not.
Excuses quickly followed. A probation officer enthusiast accsused the government of ‘obsession with targets’ which had led to unselected and unsuitable convicts being sent on the courses; and he complained there had been no follow-up. An equally therapy-crazed psychologist explained that cognitive behaviour therapy – which had taken thirty years and mega-bucks to develop, e.g. in Canada – was fine for depressives and neurotics but that “prisoners suffered for a variety of reasons including drugs and lack of job skills rather than deep-rooted psychological problems.”
The idea that Britain’s jailbirds, who typically have multiple serious convictions behind them, do not have “deep-rooted psychological problems” would amaze many psychologists -- for prisoners have high psychoticism and low intelligence as well as high neuroticism. Anyhow, the Home Office at least was unimpressed by the excuses and said it was resolved to slash cognitive behaviour therapy wherever it could be found.
PRINCE LABELLED ‘RACIST’
In a move that could furnish an answer to whether anybody at all in Britain – apart from myself and Richard Lynn – would get real with hysterical ‘anti-racists’, the front page of the LUniversity of Edinburgh’s Student newspaper carried criticism of Prince Philip’s record on race (19 xi, ‘Prince set to be ousted’). Urging that the Queen’s husband be sacked from his 51-year position as E.LU.’s Chancellor, student activist Jeremy Kemp said: “As a university, we are very proud of our multiracial and cosmopolitan make-up. Prince Philip just doesn’t fit in with this image. His questionable views of race and different cultures are well documented. I think a democratic election [via the LUniversity’s General Council] would give us a Chancellor who is more 21st century….” For good measure, Student threw in the Prince’s “infamous gaffe” when he asked a Scottish driving instructor how he ‘kept the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test.’
{What? The LUniversity “multiracial”? – There is scarcely a Black face to be seen in E.LU.’s busy George Square!} {Anyway, would the Prince move to slap down his ‘anti-racist’ accuser? Sadly, he did nothing overtly when given the opportunity to do so in my own case of 1996/7/8.}
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
LEFT versus JEWRY SPLIT WIDENS
A storm of criticism descended on Edinburgh University Press for publishing a book by esteemed leftist philosopher Ted Honderich, University College London. According to the LUniversity of Edinburgh’s Student newspaper (5 xi), the Jewish community was irate at Honderich being allowed to sanction Palestinian terror – especially no doubt after years in which it had aimed to keep the left sweet by supporting multiculturalism. But had Jewish critics misinterpreted the great British philosopher? No! Here’s what he wrote:
(The ‘moral principle’ involved was apparently that of humanity in so far as Honderich’s long-winded prose can be interpreted.)
At the same time, nationally, leftist, pacifist and Muslim groups began to link up to try to humiliate President Bush during his visit to London; Muslim fanatics blew up two synagogues in Turkey, killing 26 and injuring a hundred; and the German right slapped down accusations of anti-Semitism by expelling from the Chistian Democrat Party an M.P. who had accused Jews of over-involvement in the Russian Revolution and the Communist Party’s attendant ‘class-ocide’* against peasants, Poles, Ukrainians, White Russians and the bourgeoisie. (Lenin himself was at least one-quarter Jewish by genes, from his maternal grandfather.)
NATIONS’ IQ RESULTS JUST ABOUT RE-BURIED
Publicity in the Times for IQ and the Wealth of Nations yielded minimal reaction either in Britain or worldwide. Follow-up within the same week involved merely: one dismissive article in the Guardian saying of Richard Lynn, with ironic intent, “he’ll be weighing our brains next” {as well he might!}, invoking the tired Flynn/Lynn ‘rising IQ {scores}’ Effect (Gavin Evans, 14 xi) and ignoring Lynn & Vanhanen’s main finding entirely; one supportive letter in the Times (Register) deploring worldwide dysgenics, with poorer countries breeding too much (John Harvey, 14 xi); three evasive Times (Register) letters (e.g. pooh-poohing Mensa’s tests) (14 xi).
Evidently the left’s policy of repression of work on IQ had been extended even to substantial news items in the Times accompanied by a super graphic mapping worldwide levels of IQ and income. Only an utterly unqualified far-out journalist was prepared to raise the ‘arguments’ that academic lefties knew to be worthless. Clever lefties preferred to stay in denial. My 86-year-old mother had understood it all well in 1996, telling me as my book ran into trouble, “Christopher, whatever you do, don’t talk about the darkies!”
{In the next week, 16 xi, the Sunday Torygraph’s radio correspondent ran a bemused piece about “a strange little eruption on the Today programme” concerning Richard Lynn on IQ and national prosperity. The ‘right-wing’ newspaper [about to be sold because its proprietor was caught with his hand in the till] concluded feebly:
On 17 xi, the news of L&V reached China Daily (English-language Hong Kong edition). The story was favourable to the idea that IQ was linked to both prosperity and law-abidingness – as well it might have been, since Hong Kong has the highest IQ in the world (107 according to L&V); but it hilariously carried further the confusion generated at the Times between Prof. Richard Lynn and Prof. James Flynn, it did not mention genetic factors and it attributed better behaviour to “an “intelligent” culture”…. It soon attracted a healthy reply, ‘IQ is very important’ followed by lively discussion; and there was more at ‘Can IQ help?’ (click on Comment to see comments). (A neighbouring discussion page provided robustly non-anti-racist coverage of whether the recent incident of 400 Japanese sex tourists to Zhuhai, China, should be dealt with by executing Japanese, castrating Japanese or executing the Chinese girls as traitors – many of the 500 girls were under age 16, but they had given of their all on a most sensitive day, the 72nd anniversary of the Japanese army's invasion of Northeast China in 1931.) The China Daily story was also carried in China View, Peking, and the People’s Daily, Peking.
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A storm of criticism descended on Edinburgh University Press for publishing a book by esteemed leftist philosopher Ted Honderich, University College London. According to the LUniversity of Edinburgh’s Student newspaper (5 xi), the Jewish community was irate at Honderich being allowed to sanction Palestinian terror – especially no doubt after years in which it had aimed to keep the left sweet by supporting multiculturalism. But had Jewish critics misinterpreted the great British philosopher? No! Here’s what he wrote:
“My book After the Terror [said] that the Palestine suicide bomber does have a moral right to her act of terrorism, and that the Israeli in the helicopter has no moral right to his act of state-terrorism. To clarify any such assertion of a moral right, this one comes to this: the Palestinian suicide-bomber was morally permitted if not obliged to do what she did -- which very judgement has the support of a fundamental and accepted moral principle.”
(The ‘moral principle’ involved was apparently that of humanity in so far as Honderich’s long-winded prose can be interpreted.)
At the same time, nationally, leftist, pacifist and Muslim groups began to link up to try to humiliate President Bush during his visit to London; Muslim fanatics blew up two synagogues in Turkey, killing 26 and injuring a hundred; and the German right slapped down accusations of anti-Semitism by expelling from the Chistian Democrat Party an M.P. who had accused Jews of over-involvement in the Russian Revolution and the Communist Party’s attendant ‘class-ocide’* against peasants, Poles, Ukrainians, White Russians and the bourgeoisie. (Lenin himself was at least one-quarter Jewish by genes, from his maternal grandfather.)
{* "We are not waging war against individual persons. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. During the investigation, do not look for evidence that the accused acted in deed or word against soviet power. The first questions to put are:
To what class does he belong?
What is his origin?
What is his education or profession?
And it is these questions that ought to determine the fate of the accused. In this lies the significance and essence of the Red Terror."
LATSIS (Chairman of the eastern front of Lenin's Cheka), 1918. Cited by G.Hosking, 1987, A History of the Soviet Union. Harmondsworth : Penguin.}
NATIONS’ IQ RESULTS JUST ABOUT RE-BURIED
Publicity in the Times for IQ and the Wealth of Nations yielded minimal reaction either in Britain or worldwide. Follow-up within the same week involved merely: one dismissive article in the Guardian saying of Richard Lynn, with ironic intent, “he’ll be weighing our brains next” {as well he might!}, invoking the tired Flynn/Lynn ‘rising IQ {scores}’ Effect (Gavin Evans, 14 xi) and ignoring Lynn & Vanhanen’s main finding entirely; one supportive letter in the Times (Register) deploring worldwide dysgenics, with poorer countries breeding too much (John Harvey, 14 xi); three evasive Times (Register) letters (e.g. pooh-poohing Mensa’s tests) (14 xi).
Evidently the left’s policy of repression of work on IQ had been extended even to substantial news items in the Times accompanied by a super graphic mapping worldwide levels of IQ and income. Only an utterly unqualified far-out journalist was prepared to raise the ‘arguments’ that academic lefties knew to be worthless. Clever lefties preferred to stay in denial. My 86-year-old mother had understood it all well in 1996, telling me as my book ran into trouble, “Christopher, whatever you do, don’t talk about the darkies!”
{In the next week, 16 xi, the Sunday Torygraph’s radio correspondent ran a bemused piece about “a strange little eruption on the Today programme” concerning Richard Lynn on IQ and national prosperity. The ‘right-wing’ newspaper [about to be sold because its proprietor was caught with his hand in the till] concluded feebly:
“There are different levels of objection to discussing such matters. Perhaps the findings should be ignored because they are not factually correct, all IQ tests being hopelessly culturally determined? Perhaps they should be rejected because, whether factual or not, such statistics give succour to racists? Perhaps, regardless of consequences, it’s simply a morally unacceptable way of looking at other people ever? In practice, all these objections mingle together mistily to make the matter effectively taboo.”
On 17 xi, the news of L&V reached China Daily (English-language Hong Kong edition). The story was favourable to the idea that IQ was linked to both prosperity and law-abidingness – as well it might have been, since Hong Kong has the highest IQ in the world (107 according to L&V); but it hilariously carried further the confusion generated at the Times between Prof. Richard Lynn and Prof. James Flynn, it did not mention genetic factors and it attributed better behaviour to “an “intelligent” culture”…. It soon attracted a healthy reply, ‘IQ is very important’ followed by lively discussion; and there was more at ‘Can IQ help?’ (click on Comment to see comments). (A neighbouring discussion page provided robustly non-anti-racist coverage of whether the recent incident of 400 Japanese sex tourists to Zhuhai, China, should be dealt with by executing Japanese, castrating Japanese or executing the Chinese girls as traitors – many of the 500 girls were under age 16, but they had given of their all on a most sensitive day, the 72nd anniversary of the Japanese army's invasion of Northeast China in 1931.) The China Daily story was also carried in China View, Peking, and the People’s Daily, Peking.
YES, ‘HE’LL BE MEASURING BRAINS NEXT’
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To: The Guardian Newspaper
November 14th 2003
Re: He'll be measuring brains next
I write to correct the misinformation given to your readers by Gavin Evans (The Guardian, November 14, 2003) in his smear of Richard Lynn's worldwide IQ results with "1933 Germany" and "1948 South Africa." This is exactly backwards to reality. Far from encouraging IQ tests, the Nazis banned them because Jews typically score high on such tests and the apartheid state banned them because of the overlap they found between supposedly discrete groups.
The results reported by Lynn in his book IQ & the Wealth of Nations have been replicated in hundreds of studies in dozens of countries. Although the low African IQ scores are unpopular, one advantage of acknowledging them is the focus it brings to interventions such as better nutrition for pregnant women. Nutrition is one of the few non-genetic variables that have been shown to increase IQ.
In 1998 I visited South Africa myself to initiate a 5-year series of IQ studies in the university system. This only became possible after the transition to majority rule. We tested students of African, East Indian, White, and East Asian backgrounds, along with those of mixed ancestry, under optimal testing procedures, using culture reduced tests. The results exactly corroborated those demonized by your correspondent. We recently published them in the leading peer-reviewed journal dealing with IQ research, the journal Intelligence, published by Elsevier Science.
With respect to brain size, about a dozen state-of-the-art Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) studies show a correlation of about 0.40 to 0.60 with IQ. And, yes, the evidence shows that East Asians (with their higher IQ scores) have larger cranial capacities than do Europeans, East Indians, and Africans.
Yours sincerely,
Professor J. Philippe Rushton, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Department of Psychology,
University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, N6A 5C2, Canada
http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/psychology/faculty/rushton.html
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Sunday, November 23, 2003
ABSENTEE PEECEE LORD
In a list of Blair-apppointed ‘People’s Peers’ who failed to vote much in the House of Lords, fifth from the top among the offenders was ex-LUniversity of Edinburgh Principal Dame Stewart Sutherland (Lord Sutherland of Houndswood). The Times (10 xi) was shocked that Sutherland had only voted in 17 of the 321 divisions which took place in the two years after his appointment – though this news would not have surprised LU.E. administrators, who had frequently needed to put up with Dame Stewart’s extended absences.
ETHNIC FEDERALISM SLAMMED
The idea that states can developed as non-integrated multicultural societies was spurned in a letter in the Times (10 xi). It was observed that Britain’s major attempt to do this in the past had been a complete flop – collapsing into its two main cultures as soon as Britain withdrew, and leaving a million dead in the process. The country? – Pre-partition India, which Britain had disastrously tried to turn into a single democracy, thus condemning the Muslims of Pakistan-to-be to Hindhu rule. The letter writer opposing ethnic federalism and doubting it would ever suit the U.K.’s Muslims? – One ‘Randhir Singh Bains.’
RACE-REALIST IQ PROF. SURVIVES LOONY INTERROGATION
BBC Radio 5 interviewed Emeritus Professor Richard Lynn about his ‘off the wall’ idea that IQ differences might substantially account for national and racial differences in prosperity (10 xi). This Diary’s chief London Correspondent caught the broadcast and responded as follows.
The next day (11 xi), Richard was put head-to-head on the BBC’s flagship morning programme ‘Today’ (BBC Radio 4) against an African-sentimental lady who had been to Ethiopia to dispense largesse and never noticed anything wrong with the leading beggars she met; she also ‘knew’ that genes were forever being “reshuffled” by nutrition and that IQ tests were “only cultural.” Once more, Richard held his ground and managed to mention that sub-Saharan African IQs were “in the 70’s” and that childhood IQ was predictive of adult level of income (and indeed of upward social mobility from parental levels, he could have mentioned – Touhey, 1972, Br.J.soc.&clin.Psychol).
{Was the earth moving? Wait for the Beeb to bring out bigger guns than this!} {Richard also appeared in other radio programmes, BBC 4’s ‘The World Tonight’ and a broadcast for BBC World Service.}
WARNING – WOMEN AT WORK!
Boards of Directors that bow to PeeCee and appoint women find their share prices dip (Times Business), 11 xi). Research from Cranfield School of Management showed that the number of women directors in Britain’s FTSE 100 (100 biggest companies) had risen 20 per cent over 2002/3 – to a total 100 women. However, of the top ten companies in the Cranfield Index — which rates FTSE 100 companies according to the number of women on the board — 60 per cent had underperformed the FTSE 100 this year. By contrast, companies low in the CI tended to have outperformed the market.
ABUSOHYSTERIA EXPOSED
In a hilarious exchange of accusations, half-Black Demetrius Panton, a British male of 36, claimed years of repeated sexual abuse in a UK orphanage had left him largely unscathed (Daily Telegraph, 12 xi) – contrary to the central tenet of paedohysteria. Panton was denying the claims of Government Minister Margaret Hodge that he was “very seriously disturbed” – claims she had made in order to cast doubt on Panton’s accusations of state-funded paedophilia and to explain why she had rejected his application for more government funding for a postgraduate education.
{By this time, Hodge herself was actually Minister for Children and Paedophysteria; and Panton’s multiple abuser had gone on to a career of paedophilia in Thailand, culminating in his suicide. After a few days, Hodge apologized unreservedly; but Panton – who turned out to be working in the office of Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott – continued to consult with lawyers with an eye to libel action until Hodge promised a lavish donation to a charity of his choice and payment of all his legal fees. It was clear that, after a decade of paedohysteria, Britain had its first case attesting that paedophilia does not invariably result in serious harm.}
In a list of Blair-apppointed ‘People’s Peers’ who failed to vote much in the House of Lords, fifth from the top among the offenders was ex-LUniversity of Edinburgh Principal Dame Stewart Sutherland (Lord Sutherland of Houndswood). The Times (10 xi) was shocked that Sutherland had only voted in 17 of the 321 divisions which took place in the two years after his appointment – though this news would not have surprised LU.E. administrators, who had frequently needed to put up with Dame Stewart’s extended absences.
ETHNIC FEDERALISM SLAMMED
The idea that states can developed as non-integrated multicultural societies was spurned in a letter in the Times (10 xi). It was observed that Britain’s major attempt to do this in the past had been a complete flop – collapsing into its two main cultures as soon as Britain withdrew, and leaving a million dead in the process. The country? – Pre-partition India, which Britain had disastrously tried to turn into a single democracy, thus condemning the Muslims of Pakistan-to-be to Hindhu rule. The letter writer opposing ethnic federalism and doubting it would ever suit the U.K.’s Muslims? – One ‘Randhir Singh Bains.’
RACE-REALIST IQ PROF. SURVIVES LOONY INTERROGATION
BBC Radio 5 interviewed Emeritus Professor Richard Lynn about his ‘off the wall’ idea that IQ differences might substantially account for national and racial differences in prosperity (10 xi). This Diary’s chief London Correspondent caught the broadcast and responded as follows.
Lynn was allowed on to Radio 5's ‘Drive’ programme today. Absolutely hilarious. He was interviewed by the egregious Jane Garvey who was simply unable to get her head around the idea that IQ might be a function of anything other than environment and became positively panic-stricken when Lynn refused to be cowed by the usual liberal bigot tactic of hinting that he is a racist to suggest that blacks as a group are innately at a disadvantage when compared to other races. Times they are a-changing.... RH.
The next day (11 xi), Richard was put head-to-head on the BBC’s flagship morning programme ‘Today’ (BBC Radio 4) against an African-sentimental lady who had been to Ethiopia to dispense largesse and never noticed anything wrong with the leading beggars she met; she also ‘knew’ that genes were forever being “reshuffled” by nutrition and that IQ tests were “only cultural.” Once more, Richard held his ground and managed to mention that sub-Saharan African IQs were “in the 70’s” and that childhood IQ was predictive of adult level of income (and indeed of upward social mobility from parental levels, he could have mentioned – Touhey, 1972, Br.J.soc.&clin.Psychol).
{Was the earth moving? Wait for the Beeb to bring out bigger guns than this!} {Richard also appeared in other radio programmes, BBC 4’s ‘The World Tonight’ and a broadcast for BBC World Service.}
WARNING – WOMEN AT WORK!
Boards of Directors that bow to PeeCee and appoint women find their share prices dip (Times Business), 11 xi). Research from Cranfield School of Management showed that the number of women directors in Britain’s FTSE 100 (100 biggest companies) had risen 20 per cent over 2002/3 – to a total 100 women. However, of the top ten companies in the Cranfield Index — which rates FTSE 100 companies according to the number of women on the board — 60 per cent had underperformed the FTSE 100 this year. By contrast, companies low in the CI tended to have outperformed the market.
ABUSOHYSTERIA EXPOSED
In a hilarious exchange of accusations, half-Black Demetrius Panton, a British male of 36, claimed years of repeated sexual abuse in a UK orphanage had left him largely unscathed (Daily Telegraph, 12 xi) – contrary to the central tenet of paedohysteria. Panton was denying the claims of Government Minister Margaret Hodge that he was “very seriously disturbed” – claims she had made in order to cast doubt on Panton’s accusations of state-funded paedophilia and to explain why she had rejected his application for more government funding for a postgraduate education.
{By this time, Hodge herself was actually Minister for Children and Paedophysteria; and Panton’s multiple abuser had gone on to a career of paedophilia in Thailand, culminating in his suicide. After a few days, Hodge apologized unreservedly; but Panton – who turned out to be working in the office of Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott – continued to consult with lawyers with an eye to libel action until Hodge promised a lavish donation to a charity of his choice and payment of all his legal fees. It was clear that, after a decade of paedohysteria, Britain had its first case attesting that paedophilia does not invariably result in serious harm.}
Friday, November 21, 2003
THE TIMES CARRIES NEWS OF IQ AND THE WEALTH OF
NATIONS
At long last, Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen were allowed to make a mark with their March 2002 book IQ and The Wealth of Nations. The ending of the book's 20 months of virtual suppression probably came about because two favourable reviews were due out in the December edition of the journal Heredity -- part of the Nature stable, so giving Times Online Education Correspondent Glen Owen adequate cover if he ran into flak from colleagues. The longer, print version of the article hopelessly confused 'Prof. Lynn' with 'Prof. Flynn', so that should have helped ensure further coverage once the Times moved to untangle the mess. The full version wheeled in British media babbler Oliver James, a clinical psychologist, to say “The IQ test is heavily culturally conditioned”. But, by and large, Lynn/”Flynn” & and Vanhanen were
allowed a field day; and James decently told the Times that Lynn himself
was “kindly and unbigoted”. (A useful graphic for the article linked national IQ and prosperity around the globe -- though it forgot to give its legend for the light-blue-coloured c. IQ 80 countries of the Middle East.) I tried to join the debate in Times2 with the following contribution:
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The Statesman (India) (11 xi) covered the story without even mentioning genetic explanations for the IQ-prosperity link -- heralding how the Western left would try officially to ignore Glen Owen’s bunkerbusting job while carting off its walking wounded to strictly private sanatoria.
NATIONS
At long last, Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen were allowed to make a mark with their March 2002 book IQ and The Wealth of Nations. The ending of the book's 20 months of virtual suppression probably came about because two favourable reviews were due out in the December edition of the journal Heredity -- part of the Nature stable, so giving Times Online Education Correspondent Glen Owen adequate cover if he ran into flak from colleagues. The longer, print version of the article hopelessly confused 'Prof. Lynn' with 'Prof. Flynn', so that should have helped ensure further coverage once the Times moved to untangle the mess. The full version wheeled in British media babbler Oliver James, a clinical psychologist, to say “The IQ test is heavily culturally conditioned”. But, by and large, Lynn/”Flynn” & and Vanhanen were
allowed a field day; and James decently told the Times that Lynn himself
was “kindly and unbigoted”. (A useful graphic for the article linked national IQ and prosperity around the globe -- though it forgot to give its legend for the light-blue-coloured c. IQ 80 countries of the Middle East.) I tried to join the debate in Times2 with the following contribution:
Glen Owen and the Times deserve serious congratulation for bringing out the news of Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen's scholarly work -- effectively suppressed in the mainstream media for 20 months since its publication in March, 2002. IQ and the Wealth of Nations provides impressively reliable IQ estimates for many countries and shows a really strong link between IQ and prosperity (not the feeble correlation of .30 found in so many social-scientific studies). (The basic data used are made available on the internet by Matt Nuenke. More on the methods and resulting data is available from Lynn & Vanhanen themselves.)
Naturally some will wish to believe that prosperity is causal to IQ, so they should note that IQ predicts increases in prosperity from earlier baselines. For example, of the world's 21 countries which steadily tripled their Gross Domestic Product from 1983 through 1990 and 1993 to 1996, not one was on the African mainland (where IQ averaged roughly 75 around 1980). By contrast, of the 27 countries whose GDP decreased by 50% or more, no less than ten were African (Angola, Burkina Faso, Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Libya, Madagascar, Somalia, Sudan, Zambia and Sao Tome & Principe).
Twenty-one (mainly favourable) “customer reviews” of what may prove a 'book of the century' can be found on the internet at Amazon
Books. The four reviews at Barnes & Noble are highly favourable. Three supportive reviews appear at Social Sciences Web (which especially queries the failure of leftists to discuss or reply to the volume). Another very favourable review -- accepting the book as showing the causal impact of a nation’s IQ -- by economist-turned-sociobiologist Ed Miller (Univ. New Orleans) was published in Occidental Quarterly (Winter 2002/3); Canadian differential psychologist Philippe Rushton was equally accepting in his 2003 review for Personality & Individual Differences; and “human biodiversity” guru Steve Sailer loved it (in the internet anti-immigration magazine VDare and in the conservative organ Free Republic).
A summary in French including a reply by Lynn to criticisms is provided by educator Philippe Gouillou. A summary and the basic data are provided for Spanish speakers by Roberto Colom. Coverage in Swedish comes from economist-philosopher Gunnar Adler-Karlsson. Correspondents discussing the fraudulence/incompetence of Franz Boas declared L& V’s book “unchallenged:. Lynn and Vanhanen's work has quite possibly sounded the death knell for modern 'politically correct' denials of the importance of IQ, race and nation.
Sincerely, -- Chris Brand, Edinburgh.
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The Statesman (India) (11 xi) covered the story without even mentioning genetic explanations for the IQ-prosperity link -- heralding how the Western left would try officially to ignore Glen Owen’s bunkerbusting job while carting off its walking wounded to strictly private sanatoria.
Thursday, November 20, 2003
BLACKS AGAINST AFFIRMATIVISM
A leading organization of Black conservatives in America carried a splendid article which denounced 'affirmative action' as the modern equivalent of Jim Crow-style discrimination.
'ISLAM AWARENESS' PROPAGANDA DENOUNCED
A U.K. Government-led 'Islam Awareness Week', boasting of Muslim inventions /discoveries (viz. guitar, algebra, paper and fruits such as lemons) was nicely put down in Spiked (4 xi) as an exercise likely to put even more distance between White British and Muslim children - not least because loopy Campaign for Racial Equality boss Trevor Phillips, a semi-Black, used the launch to claim that Isaac Newton's achievements should really be attributed to Muslims.
U.K. INTELLECTUALS SEE A BIT OF THE LIGHT
Reviewing for the Times Literary Supplement (7 xi) a new book, Kuhn versus Popper, Vincent Deary [the brother of Edinburgh differential psychology professor Ian Deary] was glad to celebrate author Steve Fuller's preference for Popperian objectivity and realism in philosophy over Kuhnian subjectivism and relativism. "The obscenity of relativism" also received a kicking in Times Higher (7 xi) from sociology professor Frank Webster [City University, London]: "The moral equivalence that accompanies cultural relativism cannot be accepted when it means that reason, religious tolerance and democracy are equated with an absolutism that executes unbelievers, conflates government and religious faith and denies the truth of science."
FEMININNIES LOSE A TRICK
A leading Parisian department store offered its women customers striptease lessons. Professional strippers were on hand at Galeries Lafayette, showing how girls should reveal their all in the most alluring way. One stripper told a French newspaper that the lessons were artistic, not vulgar. But the store's publicity stunt prompted criticism with feminastie groups, who said their fatties, smellies, violent sados and hairy harridans would demonstrate outside the store.
RIGHT BEATING NYTWITS
In a refreshing up-beat piece, the City Journal (Autumn) ventured that the American right was surging through the left's former iron grip on the media. Apparently Fox News, South Park, Kausfiles, the Drudge Report and the internet have created a new phenomenon - and all helped to expose and punish the shoddy standards of reporting tolerated at the New York Times in the name of 'affirmative action.' No longer could right wing observations and points be simply forgotten thanks to the NYT's monopoly of news.
{Maybe some US right-wing outlets will even get round to mentioning THE g FACTOR? - still available free thanks to Philippe Gouillou at: http://www.douance.org/qi/brandtgf.htm _.}
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A leading organization of Black conservatives in America carried a splendid article which denounced 'affirmative action' as the modern equivalent of Jim Crow-style discrimination.
'ISLAM AWARENESS' PROPAGANDA DENOUNCED
A U.K. Government-led 'Islam Awareness Week', boasting of Muslim inventions /discoveries (viz. guitar, algebra, paper and fruits such as lemons) was nicely put down in Spiked (4 xi) as an exercise likely to put even more distance between White British and Muslim children - not least because loopy Campaign for Racial Equality boss Trevor Phillips, a semi-Black, used the launch to claim that Isaac Newton's achievements should really be attributed to Muslims.
U.K. INTELLECTUALS SEE A BIT OF THE LIGHT
Reviewing for the Times Literary Supplement (7 xi) a new book, Kuhn versus Popper, Vincent Deary [the brother of Edinburgh differential psychology professor Ian Deary] was glad to celebrate author Steve Fuller's preference for Popperian objectivity and realism in philosophy over Kuhnian subjectivism and relativism. "The obscenity of relativism" also received a kicking in Times Higher (7 xi) from sociology professor Frank Webster [City University, London]: "The moral equivalence that accompanies cultural relativism cannot be accepted when it means that reason, religious tolerance and democracy are equated with an absolutism that executes unbelievers, conflates government and religious faith and denies the truth of science."
FEMININNIES LOSE A TRICK
A leading Parisian department store offered its women customers striptease lessons. Professional strippers were on hand at Galeries Lafayette, showing how girls should reveal their all in the most alluring way. One stripper told a French newspaper that the lessons were artistic, not vulgar. But the store's publicity stunt prompted criticism with feminastie groups, who said their fatties, smellies, violent sados and hairy harridans would demonstrate outside the store.
RIGHT BEATING NYTWITS
In a refreshing up-beat piece, the City Journal (Autumn) ventured that the American right was surging through the left's former iron grip on the media. Apparently Fox News, South Park, Kausfiles, the Drudge Report and the internet have created a new phenomenon - and all helped to expose and punish the shoddy standards of reporting tolerated at the New York Times in the name of 'affirmative action.' No longer could right wing observations and points be simply forgotten thanks to the NYT's monopoly of news.
{Maybe some US right-wing outlets will even get round to mentioning THE g FACTOR? - still available free thanks to Philippe Gouillou at: http://www.douance.org/qi/brandtgf.htm _.}
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
SPECCIE STARTS UP WITH RACE REALISM
THOUGH TEN YEARS TOO LATE. The Spectator (1 xi) carried a fine article about 'The multicultural thought police' by Leo McKinstry, saying that the U.S.A. was moving towards classifying 'racism' as a mental illness for which compulsory detention would be appropriate. McKinstry concluded: "In some ways, multiculturalism is a reaction to the barbarity of Hitler's Nazi regime. The sorry paradox is that in its myopia over race and its hysterical intolerance of dissent, this doctrine is dragging us along the road towards tyranny."
RETARDED ARSONISTS MAY PROMPT EUGENIC THOUGHTS
As California burned, police ventured that much of the trouble had been the work of arsonists - a group having a mean IQ around 80, and a quarter of them being below 70.
FRENCH NATIONAL FRONT ON A NEOLIBEREALIST ROLL
According to both the Spectator (1 xi) and the EU Observer (21 x), France's Jean Marie Le Pen was polling well, even as high as 33% in Paris, largely thanks to the liberalism of his well-preserved daughter, Marine - who has told anti-abortion Catholics to buzz off.
DANISH 'EXPERTS' LEARN CRIME REALISM
"There is no evidence that a tendency towards criminal behaviour can be inherited," declared Denmark's peecee Health Ministry. That was why it had not demanded that the world's biggest sperm bank, Cryos, based in Aarhus, Denmark, should require proof from sperm donors that they did not have criminal records.
But Cryos changed its arrangements right smartish when it was revealed that a man who had killed both of his two baby daughters had got on to its books and the organization was inundated with phone calls from worried sperm users seeking assurance that the murderer, Heine Nielsen, was not the father of their own particular sprog (Sunday Telegraph, 2 xi).
(Nielsen had been imprisoned for six years for the murder of his first daughter; and was next confined for life in a secure lunatic asylum for the murder of his second. Cryos had several times paid him œ23 for sperm donations but said it had never used his sperm because he had failed to complete the required psychological tests. As of 2003, Cryos had 200 sperm donors on its books and was distributing some 10,000 units of sperm annually to 35 infertility clinics across Europe. Never before did the Danes have their own empire without Saxon help?_.)
MULTICULTURALISM SCORNED BY LEFTIST
The U.K.'s Channel 4 TV allowed post-Marxist Kenan Malik five minutes to pooh-pooh multiculturalism as divisive, unnecessary and even likely to lead to apartheid. Malik's agenda was that we should all be good post-Marxists - just as the nice and passbly clever political philosopher Brian Barry [Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, c. 1968] wants a return to strict colourblind egalitarianism (Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism, 2002, Harvard University Press).
NEW BOOK ON IQ
The Scientific Study of General Intelligence received a very favourable review from Occidental Quarterly editor Kevin Lamb. Apart from robust defences of the g factor and its substantial heritability, the volume - published without publicity in June -- apparently said that criminologists were coming round to the view that IQ was a key variable and that vocational experts deplored the gush being served up by multifactor theorists and by one Daniel Goleman in his ten-year craze of 'emotional intelligence' - for many of the variables offered as substitutes for g would never meet the exacting standards of American courts (established in relation to IQ) for reliability, validity, fairness etc. (The Autumn 2003 OQ also contained a reprint Enoch Powell's classic 1977 speech 'The road to national suicide' and the interesting information that the 'right-wing' Economist magazine seriously considered at the time whether Enoch, though a Privy Councillor and Member of the British Empire, should be prosecuted under the Race Relations Act.)
THOUGH TEN YEARS TOO LATE. The Spectator (1 xi) carried a fine article about 'The multicultural thought police' by Leo McKinstry, saying that the U.S.A. was moving towards classifying 'racism' as a mental illness for which compulsory detention would be appropriate. McKinstry concluded: "In some ways, multiculturalism is a reaction to the barbarity of Hitler's Nazi regime. The sorry paradox is that in its myopia over race and its hysterical intolerance of dissent, this doctrine is dragging us along the road towards tyranny."
RETARDED ARSONISTS MAY PROMPT EUGENIC THOUGHTS
As California burned, police ventured that much of the trouble had been the work of arsonists - a group having a mean IQ around 80, and a quarter of them being below 70.
FRENCH NATIONAL FRONT ON A NEOLIBEREALIST ROLL
According to both the Spectator (1 xi) and the EU Observer (21 x), France's Jean Marie Le Pen was polling well, even as high as 33% in Paris, largely thanks to the liberalism of his well-preserved daughter, Marine - who has told anti-abortion Catholics to buzz off.
DANISH 'EXPERTS' LEARN CRIME REALISM
"There is no evidence that a tendency towards criminal behaviour can be inherited," declared Denmark's peecee Health Ministry. That was why it had not demanded that the world's biggest sperm bank, Cryos, based in Aarhus, Denmark, should require proof from sperm donors that they did not have criminal records.
But Cryos changed its arrangements right smartish when it was revealed that a man who had killed both of his two baby daughters had got on to its books and the organization was inundated with phone calls from worried sperm users seeking assurance that the murderer, Heine Nielsen, was not the father of their own particular sprog (Sunday Telegraph, 2 xi).
(Nielsen had been imprisoned for six years for the murder of his first daughter; and was next confined for life in a secure lunatic asylum for the murder of his second. Cryos had several times paid him œ23 for sperm donations but said it had never used his sperm because he had failed to complete the required psychological tests. As of 2003, Cryos had 200 sperm donors on its books and was distributing some 10,000 units of sperm annually to 35 infertility clinics across Europe. Never before did the Danes have their own empire without Saxon help?_.)
MULTICULTURALISM SCORNED BY LEFTIST
The U.K.'s Channel 4 TV allowed post-Marxist Kenan Malik five minutes to pooh-pooh multiculturalism as divisive, unnecessary and even likely to lead to apartheid. Malik's agenda was that we should all be good post-Marxists - just as the nice and passbly clever political philosopher Brian Barry [Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, c. 1968] wants a return to strict colourblind egalitarianism (Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism, 2002, Harvard University Press).
NEW BOOK ON IQ
The Scientific Study of General Intelligence received a very favourable review from Occidental Quarterly editor Kevin Lamb. Apart from robust defences of the g factor and its substantial heritability, the volume - published without publicity in June -- apparently said that criminologists were coming round to the view that IQ was a key variable and that vocational experts deplored the gush being served up by multifactor theorists and by one Daniel Goleman in his ten-year craze of 'emotional intelligence' - for many of the variables offered as substitutes for g would never meet the exacting standards of American courts (established in relation to IQ) for reliability, validity, fairness etc. (The Autumn 2003 OQ also contained a reprint Enoch Powell's classic 1977 speech 'The road to national suicide' and the interesting information that the 'right-wing' Economist magazine seriously considered at the time whether Enoch, though a Privy Councillor and Member of the British Empire, should be prosecuted under the Race Relations Act.)
Saturday, November 01, 2003
MUGGED INTO RACE REALISM?
As the Romanian-Jewish, Peterhouse-educated QC, Michael Howard, became Conservative leader, it transpired that his ex-supermodel wife (formerly Sandra Paul, now 60+ but excellently preserved) had been mugged earlier this year by two Black youths – losing her treasured engagement and eternity rings and two handbags while pinned to the pavement. Presumably reinforcing the point, the couple’s daughter was also subsequently mugged in South London. While Howard had been Home Secretary, 1993-4, crime had fallen by 18%; and his reputation as a tough egg was only forgotten because his NuLabour successors were tougher still. But Howard was also a respecter of civil liberties and had thus declined to enact legislation making Holocaust denial a criminal offence in Britain.
MUSLIM LEADERS DENOUNCE NULABOUR ‘PAKI-BASHING’
Home Secretary David Blunkett turned on Britain’s mullahs and told them to learn English because if they did not thus encourage integration there would be a “real risk of increasing alienation” between Whites and Muslims. The Muslim Council declared itself dismayed at Mr Blunkett’s words, calling them “a post-September 11 form of Paki-bashing.”
As the Romanian-Jewish, Peterhouse-educated QC, Michael Howard, became Conservative leader, it transpired that his ex-supermodel wife (formerly Sandra Paul, now 60+ but excellently preserved) had been mugged earlier this year by two Black youths – losing her treasured engagement and eternity rings and two handbags while pinned to the pavement. Presumably reinforcing the point, the couple’s daughter was also subsequently mugged in South London. While Howard had been Home Secretary, 1993-4, crime had fallen by 18%; and his reputation as a tough egg was only forgotten because his NuLabour successors were tougher still. But Howard was also a respecter of civil liberties and had thus declined to enact legislation making Holocaust denial a criminal offence in Britain.
MUSLIM LEADERS DENOUNCE NULABOUR ‘PAKI-BASHING’
Home Secretary David Blunkett turned on Britain’s mullahs and told them to learn English because if they did not thus encourage integration there would be a “real risk of increasing alienation” between Whites and Muslims. The Muslim Council declared itself dismayed at Mr Blunkett’s words, calling them “a post-September 11 form of Paki-bashing.”
Friday, October 31, 2003
WEENIES AT IT AGAIN
A new film, ‘Thirteen’ was set to celebrate underage sex (though doubtless under some guise of warning against it). The screenplay was written by a thirteen-year-old, Nikki Reid, and involves waywards ‘Evie’, 13, leading her friend ‘Tracy’ into trouble with sex, drink and drugs. In one scene ‘Evie’ abandons her old-fashioned knickers and goes for thongs with cheery phrases like Hiya Big Boy! For better or worse, weenies will not be able to learn from all this, for British film censors have awarded only an ‘18’ certificate.
{Meantime, UK Home Secretary David Blunkett prepared legislation to jail for 5 years any weenie who had sex with anything at all, even another weenie. As a blind man, he probably had little appreciation that many girls of the 21st century were sexualized and sex-seeking from age ten.}
GENES-TAILORED MEDICINE
Nature devoted a two-page popular article to prophesying that within a decade significant numbers of drugs will be prescribed only after taking patient’s genes and heredity into account (Alison Abbott, 23 x, ‘With your genes? Take one of these three times a day’).
DYSGENIC HYSTERIA TO BE CHALLENGED
It transpired that the proposed new European Constitution would ban abortions and other procedures practised with eugenic intent (Times, 28 x). Since the abortion of Mongol babies was very likely to be deemed ‘eugenic’ by courts, it became likely that pro-abortion women’s groups would come out campaigning against the proposed Constitution – giving eugenics its first substantial public support since the 1930’s.
ANSWERING THE THERNSTROMS
As two of America’s leading blind-as-bats educationalists chanced within a whisker of realism, e.g. in The Nation and The Boston Globe, I pointed out their problems (to The Nation) as follows:
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A new film, ‘Thirteen’ was set to celebrate underage sex (though doubtless under some guise of warning against it). The screenplay was written by a thirteen-year-old, Nikki Reid, and involves waywards ‘Evie’, 13, leading her friend ‘Tracy’ into trouble with sex, drink and drugs. In one scene ‘Evie’ abandons her old-fashioned knickers and goes for thongs with cheery phrases like Hiya Big Boy! For better or worse, weenies will not be able to learn from all this, for British film censors have awarded only an ‘18’ certificate.
{Meantime, UK Home Secretary David Blunkett prepared legislation to jail for 5 years any weenie who had sex with anything at all, even another weenie. As a blind man, he probably had little appreciation that many girls of the 21st century were sexualized and sex-seeking from age ten.}
GENES-TAILORED MEDICINE
Nature devoted a two-page popular article to prophesying that within a decade significant numbers of drugs will be prescribed only after taking patient’s genes and heredity into account (Alison Abbott, 23 x, ‘With your genes? Take one of these three times a day’).
DYSGENIC HYSTERIA TO BE CHALLENGED
It transpired that the proposed new European Constitution would ban abortions and other procedures practised with eugenic intent (Times, 28 x). Since the abortion of Mongol babies was very likely to be deemed ‘eugenic’ by courts, it became likely that pro-abortion women’s groups would come out campaigning against the proposed Constitution – giving eugenics its first substantial public support since the 1930’s.
ANSWERING THE THERNSTROMS
As two of America’s leading blind-as-bats educationalists chanced within a whisker of realism, e.g. in The Nation and The Boston Globe, I pointed out their problems (to The Nation) as follows:
It is refreshing to see scholars and your reviewer rejecting the tired ideas that black underachievement can be explained by poverty, non-integrated schools or large class sizes ('How the other half learns', 10 November issue). But at the same time it is depressing to see black kids accused of laziness and lack of 'culture' -- two other 'explanations' of their lack of academic success that should have been dropped years ago for research finds Black kids highly motivated in the earlier school years. After forty years (if not more) of huge state-funded efforts to improve black educational levels by simplistic environmental means, it is surely time to recognize that children differ genetically and that to expect all children to achieve academic success is quite misguided. It is time to tailor education to children's strengths, not to their weaknesses.
Sincerely,
Chris Brand.
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Thursday, October 30, 2003
RANT AGAINST RACE
As part of the latest British outbreak of hysteria about ‘racism’ in the police, the Times moved to attest its anti-racist credentials by commissioning a column from left-wing ‘philosopher’ and Grauniad columnist, A. C. Grayling (25 x). The result was this:
Unfortunately ‘philosopher’ Grayling didn’t seem have established reality contact before putting pen to paper.
1. In 1994, ‘anti-racist’ top geneticist L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza and colleagues identified six main human population groups [*] and reported from their genetic data that “the greatest difference within the human species is between [sub-Saharan] Africans and non-Africans....” (The History and Geography of Human Genes).
[*] 1) Northern Mongoloids, (2) Caucasoids, (3) South Asians and Pacific Islanders, (4) Negroids, (5) North and South Amerinds plus Eskimos, (6) Aboriginal Australians and Papuan New Guineans.
2. Grayling had apparently not heard the views of a fellow British left-wing columnist who had taken the trouble to write a whole book about race.
In his 1964 paper “On the non-existence of human races”, Frank B. Livingstone promulgated the new truth that “there are no races, there are only clines” ..... There are limits to the power of inverted commas, however. “Races” may only exist as social constructs, but that still doesn't mean “white men can jump”
Marek KOHN, 1994, 'Racing uncertainties: Is there a biological basis to race?’ New Statesman & Society, 16 ix.
3. Grayling offered no sources for his ‘Black Britons.’ But the top Google-rated site for St George (http://www.innotts.co.uk/asperges/george/george2.html) tells the usual story that St George came from a noble Christian family in Cappadocia, Eastern Turkey, and makes no mention of him having any Negro blood. Britain’s eighteenth-century Queen Charlotte (no ‘looker’ but harmoniously married to George III and bearing him 15 children) is normally said to have had a slightly African face, traceable chiefly back to a Portuguese ancestor having taken a Black wife five centuries earlier. The poet and essayist Leigh Hunt, the Southgate-born son of an American clergyman, was also scarcely Negroid in appearance, as can be seen at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/bookcolls/leighhunt/leighhunt.htm. Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912, also author of ‘Hiawatha’) was at most half-Black, being the son of a West African doctor and an English woman; and Mary Seacole was apparently no full-blown Black mama. So that leaves only Doctor Johnson’s Jamaican-born manservant, companion and surrogate son as Black -- though inheriting most of Johnson’s fortune, he had no head for figures and soon fell upon hard times.
As part of the latest British outbreak of hysteria about ‘racism’ in the police, the Times moved to attest its anti-racist credentials by commissioning a column from left-wing ‘philosopher’ and Grauniad columnist, A. C. Grayling (25 x). The result was this:
“ ... although there is, alas, racism in the world, there is no such thing as race. This is not a paradox. Racism is an extreme form of xenophobia based chiefly on skin colour as the most easily recognisable marker of difference. But as a biological concept, “race” is an empty one..... The scientific evidence shows that such supposed “racial” characteristics” as skin colour and hair texture are merely superficial -- the genes governing them can be switched on and off in an entire population in less than 10,000 years, making a “black” people “white”, and vice versa, depending on how much sunlight they habitually encounter..... Not a few famous Britons were, in fact, “black” or of black ancestry, among the patron saint, St George; Dr Johnson’s beloved valet Francis Barber; George III’s wife Queen Charlotte; the essayist Leigh Hunt; composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor; and Florence Nightingale’s reoubtable Crimean colleague, Mary Seacole.”
A. C. GRAYLING (‘philosopher’), 2003, Times 25 x (Weekend Review).
Unfortunately ‘philosopher’ Grayling didn’t seem have established reality contact before putting pen to paper.
1. In 1994, ‘anti-racist’ top geneticist L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza and colleagues identified six main human population groups [*] and reported from their genetic data that “the greatest difference within the human species is between [sub-Saharan] Africans and non-Africans....” (The History and Geography of Human Genes).
[*] 1) Northern Mongoloids, (2) Caucasoids, (3) South Asians and Pacific Islanders, (4) Negroids, (5) North and South Amerinds plus Eskimos, (6) Aboriginal Australians and Papuan New Guineans.
2. Grayling had apparently not heard the views of a fellow British left-wing columnist who had taken the trouble to write a whole book about race.
In his 1964 paper “On the non-existence of human races”, Frank B. Livingstone promulgated the new truth that “there are no races, there are only clines” ..... There are limits to the power of inverted commas, however. “Races” may only exist as social constructs, but that still doesn't mean “white men can jump”
Marek KOHN, 1994, 'Racing uncertainties: Is there a biological basis to race?’ New Statesman & Society, 16 ix.
3. Grayling offered no sources for his ‘Black Britons.’ But the top Google-rated site for St George (http://www.innotts.co.uk/asperges/george/george2.html) tells the usual story that St George came from a noble Christian family in Cappadocia, Eastern Turkey, and makes no mention of him having any Negro blood. Britain’s eighteenth-century Queen Charlotte (no ‘looker’ but harmoniously married to George III and bearing him 15 children) is normally said to have had a slightly African face, traceable chiefly back to a Portuguese ancestor having taken a Black wife five centuries earlier. The poet and essayist Leigh Hunt, the Southgate-born son of an American clergyman, was also scarcely Negroid in appearance, as can be seen at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/bookcolls/leighhunt/leighhunt.htm. Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912, also author of ‘Hiawatha’) was at most half-Black, being the son of a West African doctor and an English woman; and Mary Seacole was apparently no full-blown Black mama. So that leaves only Doctor Johnson’s Jamaican-born manservant, companion and surrogate son as Black -- though inheriting most of Johnson’s fortune, he had no head for figures and soon fell upon hard times.
Sunday, October 26, 2003
TERRITORIAL SEGREGATION ADVOCATED
As Britain’s ‘peace process’ with the IRA collapsed for the umpteenth time, top Times columnist Simon Jenkins drew attention to Northern Ireland’s twenty 20’-high fences in segregating Protestants and Catholics and allowing a bit of peace (22 x, ‘The Good Friday Agreement is brain-dead’). Jenkins further advocating handing over schools, roads, transport and local policing to “subsidiary councils” instead of trying to continue the power-sharing farce at Stormont.
MUSLIM MADNESS
While America tried to help Muslims in Bosnia, Kosovo, Turkey (which America wants to join the European Union), Afghanistan and Iraq – despite the threat that Islam posed to Europe -- loony Mahathir Mohamad, the Malaysian prime minister, decided to kick the American ally in the teeth by telling an applauding audience made up of kings, presidents and emirs that Jews were running and ruining the world. Jews, he claimed, "invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so that they can enjoy equal rights with others." These were not "extremist" views held by a radical minority of Muslims, Australian psychologist John Ray pointed out. These were mainstream Islamic views, as evidenced by the favorable response from the Egyptian foreign minister, who called the remarks, "a very, very wise assessment." Afghan President Hamid Karzai, an American ally whose country would still be governed by the Taliban were it not for American soldiers, some of whom are Jewish, called the speech "very correct."
DON’T MENTION OUR CRIMES – WE’RE ASYLUM SEEKERS
The entire British press managed to report the street murder of a 10-month old baby in Carlisle without ever mentioning that the (promptly arrested) assailant was an Albanian asylum seeker who had fallen out with a British girl whom he had made pregnant. What an achievement for diversicrats! What an illumination for Brits when they discover the truth about peecee journalism!
WESTERN GENIUS CELEBRATED
Charles Murray (who co-authored The Bell Curve in 1994) produced a new book documenting the world’s top 4,000 geniuses – according to page space devoted to them in encyclopaedias. Murray avoided dwelling on the neuroticism, psychoticism and unhappy childhoods of many artistic geniuses (see CRB Quotations) and instead stressed the importance of wealth, freedom and a positive cultural atmosphere (as happily provided in the West of the past 500 years) – but such commonplace good sense did not prevent his book being panned as boring by the Wall Street Journal (23 x). At the top of Murray’s four biggest categories (Western Literature, Western Art, Western Philosophy, and Combined Sciences) were Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Aristotle and Newton. (By contrast, the Internet Hall of Fame for Psychology showed Plato ahead of Aristotle; and this pair of ancients being followed by Kant, Descartes, Freud, Vygotsky, Darwin, Shakespeare, Saint Augustine, James, Dickens, Marx, Ibsen, Goethe, Jung and Pavlov.)
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As Britain’s ‘peace process’ with the IRA collapsed for the umpteenth time, top Times columnist Simon Jenkins drew attention to Northern Ireland’s twenty 20’-high fences in segregating Protestants and Catholics and allowing a bit of peace (22 x, ‘The Good Friday Agreement is brain-dead’). Jenkins further advocating handing over schools, roads, transport and local policing to “subsidiary councils” instead of trying to continue the power-sharing farce at Stormont.
MUSLIM MADNESS
While America tried to help Muslims in Bosnia, Kosovo, Turkey (which America wants to join the European Union), Afghanistan and Iraq – despite the threat that Islam posed to Europe -- loony Mahathir Mohamad, the Malaysian prime minister, decided to kick the American ally in the teeth by telling an applauding audience made up of kings, presidents and emirs that Jews were running and ruining the world. Jews, he claimed, "invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so that they can enjoy equal rights with others." These were not "extremist" views held by a radical minority of Muslims, Australian psychologist John Ray pointed out. These were mainstream Islamic views, as evidenced by the favorable response from the Egyptian foreign minister, who called the remarks, "a very, very wise assessment." Afghan President Hamid Karzai, an American ally whose country would still be governed by the Taliban were it not for American soldiers, some of whom are Jewish, called the speech "very correct."
DON’T MENTION OUR CRIMES – WE’RE ASYLUM SEEKERS
The entire British press managed to report the street murder of a 10-month old baby in Carlisle without ever mentioning that the (promptly arrested) assailant was an Albanian asylum seeker who had fallen out with a British girl whom he had made pregnant. What an achievement for diversicrats! What an illumination for Brits when they discover the truth about peecee journalism!
WESTERN GENIUS CELEBRATED
Charles Murray (who co-authored The Bell Curve in 1994) produced a new book documenting the world’s top 4,000 geniuses – according to page space devoted to them in encyclopaedias. Murray avoided dwelling on the neuroticism, psychoticism and unhappy childhoods of many artistic geniuses (see CRB Quotations) and instead stressed the importance of wealth, freedom and a positive cultural atmosphere (as happily provided in the West of the past 500 years) – but such commonplace good sense did not prevent his book being panned as boring by the Wall Street Journal (23 x). At the top of Murray’s four biggest categories (Western Literature, Western Art, Western Philosophy, and Combined Sciences) were Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Aristotle and Newton. (By contrast, the Internet Hall of Fame for Psychology showed Plato ahead of Aristotle; and this pair of ancients being followed by Kant, Descartes, Freud, Vygotsky, Darwin, Shakespeare, Saint Augustine, James, Dickens, Marx, Ibsen, Goethe, Jung and Pavlov.)
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Saturday, October 25, 2003
LOW BLACK ACHIEVEMENT INERADICABLE
Black-dominated Birmingham, which had laboured for thirty-five years to boost the educational results of its many Black kids admitted failure: in 2002, only 25 per cent of the city's African-Caribbean adolescent boys gained the benchmark five GCSEs graded A* to C, compared to a city average of 45 per cent. – However, the Birmingham Post gaily blamed the result on “the failure of government initiatives” and “institutional racism.” {Likewise, from the USA, Florida reported that its typical 12-year-old Black child lagged the average White child by four years in educational level – but the Tallahassee Democrat felt sure this was due to poverty, racism, low expectations or something and could be changed soon by a determined effort…. The amount of time, ink and paper wasted on untruth by PeeCee must one day be charged to the responsible miscreants.} {Further evidence of continuity came with a UK Government report that Blacks were six times as likely as Whites to be ‘sectioned’, i.e. certified as mad and compulsorily detained. Heroic measures, including more jobs in the bureaucracy for Labour-voting ‘experts’, were deemed necessary to deal with this perfectly traditional phenomenon.}
RAJ RESUMED
Faced with Muslim criminality in the British Midlands, often organized from India’s disputed cowboy country of Kashmir, Britain announced it would be stationing up to 28 policemen in Srinagar. The officers would not be armed but would be regularly accompanied by Indian soldiers. Already in 1993, the UK had spent £100,000 flying British police to and from India to pursue suspected criminals who had fled from Birmingham to Kashmir.
PAEDOHYSTERIA CONDEMNED
The Wall Street Journal (20 x) celebrated the pending release from prison of the unsafely convicted nursery school teacher, Gerald Amirault – 49 and imprisoned since 1986 on what many judged concocted testimony. Amirault’s mother and sister, also falsely accused, had been released earlier. The Wall Street Journal said the accusations of ‘child molestation’ had been “based on bogus testimony dragged from browbeaten child witnesses.” Through their 17-year ordeal, the Amirault family had been supported by the Woodhill Foundation, USA. The Amirault’s was by 2002 used in sociology textbooks to illustrate ‘hysteria-driven prosecutions’ – as Gerald Amirault was surprised to find one day in the course of his reading in prison for a liberal arts degree.
BURT DEFENDED
My 1995 review of Nick Mackintosh’s edited volume about Sir Cyril Burt was kindly posted on the Net by Australian psychologist John Ray at http://jonjayray.tripod.com/burtdef.html. The review includes a suggestion as to how Burt obtained crucial data on separated monozygotic twins (who conveniently went to homes differing substantially in social class yet still turned out to have similar IQs).
RACE-REALIST POLICE
After years of mildly pestering Britain’s police only for ‘stop and search’, ‘institutional racism’ and failing to convict White youths proven innocent in court of murdering Black media darling Stephen Lawrence, the BBC decided to turn up the heat. They planted a journalist, Mark Daly, 28, for six months as a trainee cop in Manchester and equipped him with the latest in pinhole cameras. Daly led his 120 fellow police trainees to believe he himself was racist. Soon he was hearing crude and not-so-crude ‘racist’ remarks in police canteens.
Once his own cover had been blow (after a tip-off) he went public and swiftly achieved eight suspensions and, soon afterwards, six resignations. Asked if he was comfortable with racism, one trainee, a former social worker, was filmed saying: "I'm cool with it, yeah. Because at the end of the day, for the last nine years, I was working for an organisation which was totally politically correct." Although 5% of trainees are typically screened out by police as insufficiently ‘diverse’ in their attitudes, one newly graduated Manchester officer ventured to the BBC’s plant that he voted for the British National Party and that Hitler ‘had the right idea but had gone about it all the wrong way.’ Police pointed out this officer had not completed his supervised initiation period – so had never undertaken duties alone.
Whereas Queen Elizabeth I had made the Church of England a success by saying she would not “make windows into men’s souls”, the BBC had decided no longer to tolerate private conversation. Whether Britain’s millions of race realists would at last feel obliged to stand up for themselves thus became at once the major national question -- followed by that of when far-leftist tall poppy haters would be similarly exposed and rooted out of the UK’s universities, schools, local government bureaucracies and media.
The Times relegated its report of the BBC’s snooping to a small item on its page 4 (though in fairness it did carry a report that only one of 63 Chinese illegal immigrants caught working in June had been deported, and that the employer had not been prosecuted). No British newspaper commented on the precedent set by the BBC’s invasion of privacy or even on its legality after years of supposedly privacy-protecting legislation. Comment at the BBC’s ‘Talking Point’ ran 20-1 in favour of the BBC’s underhand action. The last ten policemen murdered in Britain were murdered by Blacks. For more of the Manchester officers’ choice comments, see Sky News.
{The day after the story broke, the Daily Telegraph and Times still both declined to comment, and carried no relevant letters. By contrast, the Guardian and Independent had a field day. They demanded charges of “obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception and damaging police property” against Mark Daly be dropped; and they rebuked Home Secretary David Blunkett who (alone among Britain’s political class) had criticized the BBC for a “covert stunt” involving more ‘story creation’ than ‘story reporting.’}
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Black-dominated Birmingham, which had laboured for thirty-five years to boost the educational results of its many Black kids admitted failure: in 2002, only 25 per cent of the city's African-Caribbean adolescent boys gained the benchmark five GCSEs graded A* to C, compared to a city average of 45 per cent. – However, the Birmingham Post gaily blamed the result on “the failure of government initiatives” and “institutional racism.” {Likewise, from the USA, Florida reported that its typical 12-year-old Black child lagged the average White child by four years in educational level – but the Tallahassee Democrat felt sure this was due to poverty, racism, low expectations or something and could be changed soon by a determined effort…. The amount of time, ink and paper wasted on untruth by PeeCee must one day be charged to the responsible miscreants.} {Further evidence of continuity came with a UK Government report that Blacks were six times as likely as Whites to be ‘sectioned’, i.e. certified as mad and compulsorily detained. Heroic measures, including more jobs in the bureaucracy for Labour-voting ‘experts’, were deemed necessary to deal with this perfectly traditional phenomenon.}
RAJ RESUMED
Faced with Muslim criminality in the British Midlands, often organized from India’s disputed cowboy country of Kashmir, Britain announced it would be stationing up to 28 policemen in Srinagar. The officers would not be armed but would be regularly accompanied by Indian soldiers. Already in 1993, the UK had spent £100,000 flying British police to and from India to pursue suspected criminals who had fled from Birmingham to Kashmir.
PAEDOHYSTERIA CONDEMNED
The Wall Street Journal (20 x) celebrated the pending release from prison of the unsafely convicted nursery school teacher, Gerald Amirault – 49 and imprisoned since 1986 on what many judged concocted testimony. Amirault’s mother and sister, also falsely accused, had been released earlier. The Wall Street Journal said the accusations of ‘child molestation’ had been “based on bogus testimony dragged from browbeaten child witnesses.” Through their 17-year ordeal, the Amirault family had been supported by the Woodhill Foundation, USA. The Amirault’s was by 2002 used in sociology textbooks to illustrate ‘hysteria-driven prosecutions’ – as Gerald Amirault was surprised to find one day in the course of his reading in prison for a liberal arts degree.
BURT DEFENDED
My 1995 review of Nick Mackintosh’s edited volume about Sir Cyril Burt was kindly posted on the Net by Australian psychologist John Ray at http://jonjayray.tripod.com/burtdef.html. The review includes a suggestion as to how Burt obtained crucial data on separated monozygotic twins (who conveniently went to homes differing substantially in social class yet still turned out to have similar IQs).
RACE-REALIST POLICE
After years of mildly pestering Britain’s police only for ‘stop and search’, ‘institutional racism’ and failing to convict White youths proven innocent in court of murdering Black media darling Stephen Lawrence, the BBC decided to turn up the heat. They planted a journalist, Mark Daly, 28, for six months as a trainee cop in Manchester and equipped him with the latest in pinhole cameras. Daly led his 120 fellow police trainees to believe he himself was racist. Soon he was hearing crude and not-so-crude ‘racist’ remarks in police canteens.
Once his own cover had been blow (after a tip-off) he went public and swiftly achieved eight suspensions and, soon afterwards, six resignations. Asked if he was comfortable with racism, one trainee, a former social worker, was filmed saying: "I'm cool with it, yeah. Because at the end of the day, for the last nine years, I was working for an organisation which was totally politically correct." Although 5% of trainees are typically screened out by police as insufficiently ‘diverse’ in their attitudes, one newly graduated Manchester officer ventured to the BBC’s plant that he voted for the British National Party and that Hitler ‘had the right idea but had gone about it all the wrong way.’ Police pointed out this officer had not completed his supervised initiation period – so had never undertaken duties alone.
Whereas Queen Elizabeth I had made the Church of England a success by saying she would not “make windows into men’s souls”, the BBC had decided no longer to tolerate private conversation. Whether Britain’s millions of race realists would at last feel obliged to stand up for themselves thus became at once the major national question -- followed by that of when far-leftist tall poppy haters would be similarly exposed and rooted out of the UK’s universities, schools, local government bureaucracies and media.
The Times relegated its report of the BBC’s snooping to a small item on its page 4 (though in fairness it did carry a report that only one of 63 Chinese illegal immigrants caught working in June had been deported, and that the employer had not been prosecuted). No British newspaper commented on the precedent set by the BBC’s invasion of privacy or even on its legality after years of supposedly privacy-protecting legislation. Comment at the BBC’s ‘Talking Point’ ran 20-1 in favour of the BBC’s underhand action. The last ten policemen murdered in Britain were murdered by Blacks. For more of the Manchester officers’ choice comments, see Sky News.
{The day after the story broke, the Daily Telegraph and Times still both declined to comment, and carried no relevant letters. By contrast, the Guardian and Independent had a field day. They demanded charges of “obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception and damaging police property” against Mark Daly be dropped; and they rebuked Home Secretary David Blunkett who (alone among Britain’s political class) had criticized the BBC for a “covert stunt” involving more ‘story creation’ than ‘story reporting.’}
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Friday, October 24, 2003
SWITZERLAND GETS NEOLIBERAL RACE REALISM
As the Swiss general election approached, the nationalist Swiss People’s Party (SVP [V for Voelkische]) moved ahead in the polls, with 25% of people favouring it, ahead of the Social Democrats (23%) and other parties. In 1999, SVP support stood at 14%. Headed by billionaire industrialist Christoph Blocher, 63, the son of a vicar and something of an anti-Semite (though not at Haider-ish or Le Pen-ish levels), the SVP mounted an advertising campaign that clearly chimed with voters: some ads read “The Swiss are becoming Negroes”; others gave police mugshots of notorious criminals and called them “Our Dear Foreigners”; and another featured Osama bin Liner with the caption “Make A Stand Now!” Government figures showed foreigners made up 20% of Switzerland’s population (a big increase in recent years) but more than 50% of its convicted criminals and drug dealers. One SVP plan was for a referendum on giving local authorities the right to decide whether foreigners living in their areas would receive Swiss citizenship, meaning that residents of a given town or village could vote on a candidate's suitability to become Swiss. (Previous such votes were overwhelmingly anti-immigrant and had been slapped down from on high.) A third of the Swiss when polled said they were concerned about immigration and asylum seekers.
The election campaign involved many efforts by lefttists to use the law to prohibit SVP advertising as ‘racist.’ One full-page SVP press advert slammed "pampered criminals, unabashed asylum seekers and a brutal Albanian mafia", and claimed that "black Africans" were among ethnic groups dominating drugs smuggling. The SVP also favoured free market policies and low taxation. {In the election, the SVP won 27% of the vote and surged to become Switzerland’s largest party, with 55 seats in the 200-strong lower house of parliament (National Council) and a prospect of supplying two of Switzerland’s 7-strong ruling cabinet (Federal Council). Leader Blocher was thought likely to offer a return to traditional Swiss values of orderliness after an explosion in the Gotthard Tunnel and a mid-air collision over Lake Constance.}
BRITAIN GETTING RACE REALISM
The percentage of Brits believing ‘race is an important issue’ had risen dramatically from around 3% in the 1990’s to around 30% in 2003, the Economist reported. In Autumn 2003, all areas of Britain apart from the already migrant-inundated London and the South-East had around 20% of people denying that ‘it is a good thing that Britain in a multiracial society.’
{The British National Party was hindered from capitalizing on this by its failure to spell out an attractive positive (why not liberal?) vision of the Britain it wished to defend and by its ‘brutes in suits’ image – 2003 brought press revelations that one leading member had been jailed for five years for gang rape and robbery, one BNP councillor resigned after a bottle fight with another member, and another councillor went independent after a ‘procedural disagreement’ with the party. But for the BNP, Press Officer Phill Edwards said his party contained "doves not vultures."}
Other parties did not dare address the issue because they had no policies remotely likely to reduce let alone reverse dullard immigration, because they would not say the asylum swindling farce must simply end, and because they were afraid to be called ‘racist.’ Council by-elections saw the Liberal Democrats do relatively well – after weeks in which press commentators said the party had realized the need to move to the right.
ACHIEVEMENT ELITE APPRECIATED
After a half-decade of work, Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve and scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, came back to prominence with another massive book, 688 pages full of graphs and tables. Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 (HarperCollins, $29.95) ranked the 4,000 most important artists and scientists in human history.
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As the Swiss general election approached, the nationalist Swiss People’s Party (SVP [V for Voelkische]) moved ahead in the polls, with 25% of people favouring it, ahead of the Social Democrats (23%) and other parties. In 1999, SVP support stood at 14%. Headed by billionaire industrialist Christoph Blocher, 63, the son of a vicar and something of an anti-Semite (though not at Haider-ish or Le Pen-ish levels), the SVP mounted an advertising campaign that clearly chimed with voters: some ads read “The Swiss are becoming Negroes”; others gave police mugshots of notorious criminals and called them “Our Dear Foreigners”; and another featured Osama bin Liner with the caption “Make A Stand Now!” Government figures showed foreigners made up 20% of Switzerland’s population (a big increase in recent years) but more than 50% of its convicted criminals and drug dealers. One SVP plan was for a referendum on giving local authorities the right to decide whether foreigners living in their areas would receive Swiss citizenship, meaning that residents of a given town or village could vote on a candidate's suitability to become Swiss. (Previous such votes were overwhelmingly anti-immigrant and had been slapped down from on high.) A third of the Swiss when polled said they were concerned about immigration and asylum seekers.
The election campaign involved many efforts by lefttists to use the law to prohibit SVP advertising as ‘racist.’ One full-page SVP press advert slammed "pampered criminals, unabashed asylum seekers and a brutal Albanian mafia", and claimed that "black Africans" were among ethnic groups dominating drugs smuggling. The SVP also favoured free market policies and low taxation. {In the election, the SVP won 27% of the vote and surged to become Switzerland’s largest party, with 55 seats in the 200-strong lower house of parliament (National Council) and a prospect of supplying two of Switzerland’s 7-strong ruling cabinet (Federal Council). Leader Blocher was thought likely to offer a return to traditional Swiss values of orderliness after an explosion in the Gotthard Tunnel and a mid-air collision over Lake Constance.}
BRITAIN GETTING RACE REALISM
The percentage of Brits believing ‘race is an important issue’ had risen dramatically from around 3% in the 1990’s to around 30% in 2003, the Economist reported. In Autumn 2003, all areas of Britain apart from the already migrant-inundated London and the South-East had around 20% of people denying that ‘it is a good thing that Britain in a multiracial society.’
{The British National Party was hindered from capitalizing on this by its failure to spell out an attractive positive (why not liberal?) vision of the Britain it wished to defend and by its ‘brutes in suits’ image – 2003 brought press revelations that one leading member had been jailed for five years for gang rape and robbery, one BNP councillor resigned after a bottle fight with another member, and another councillor went independent after a ‘procedural disagreement’ with the party. But for the BNP, Press Officer Phill Edwards said his party contained "doves not vultures."}
Other parties did not dare address the issue because they had no policies remotely likely to reduce let alone reverse dullard immigration, because they would not say the asylum swindling farce must simply end, and because they were afraid to be called ‘racist.’ Council by-elections saw the Liberal Democrats do relatively well – after weeks in which press commentators said the party had realized the need to move to the right.
ACHIEVEMENT ELITE APPRECIATED
After a half-decade of work, Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve and scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, came back to prominence with another massive book, 688 pages full of graphs and tables. Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 (HarperCollins, $29.95) ranked the 4,000 most important artists and scientists in human history.
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Monday, October 20, 2003
Replies to ‘A Danish spectre’ by Melanie Phillips in the Daily Mail of 2nd. October, 2003
1. “….while an element of intelligence is passed on biologically from parents to children, other elements are not. So if surrounding circumstances are favourable, the children of poor parents – who themselves may or may not be intelligent -- can become highly educated.”
Why not quantify that element? It’s around 40%. Additionally, parents will influence child IQ if they provide poor, unstimulating, discouraging and unsympathetic environments – and that’s just what many low-IQ mothers do (as seen in the figures for child neglect and abuse quoted in The Bell Curve and The g Factor). To say children from low-IQ mothers “can” become highly educated is disingenuous beyond belief. The statistical expectation is that a mother of IQ80 will have children averaging IQ92. In today’s society, IQs at such levels carry serious consequences in ineducability, unemployability, criminality and proness to sexual diseases and unwwnted births.
2. “….there are many, many examples of bright people who come from the lowest social classes (not to mention stupid people from the upper classes). That’s why the low expectations of so many schools in poor areas are such a scandal, precisely because good schooling can make all the difference in raising children out of the disadvantage of their backgrounds.”
Here “many” is the slippery term. “Many, many” sounds a real lot. But what proportion of low-class-born kids become “bright people” [IQ 110 and over]? MP’s argument, if she has one, would be with sociologists* who have long concluded that even a traditional working class environment was a serious handicap in today’s educational world – and the modern single-parenting underclass and its genes are substantially worse.
*"Class inequalities in educational attainment have been consistently large during the post-war period in Scotland. In the late 1970's, middle-class children were more than four times as likely as working-class children to enter an advanced or degree-level course, and they were six times as likely to enter university."
A.F.McPHERSON & D.RAFFE, 1983, Edinburgh University Bulletin.
3. “….even if unintelligent women were to stop having children, this would not reduce the proportion of unintelligent people in the population; on the contrary, it might prevent as many potentially intelligent children from being born.”
The absurd conclusion from MP’s deceitful ‘cans’ and ‘manys’.
4. “….Heavily influenced by the American eugenists, Hitler started sterilising people with congenital illness in 1934….”
The majority of progressive and liberal people approved of eugenics. Feminists were specially keen on preventing rapists and sexual perverts from passing on their genes. Winston Churchill actually travelled to New York to attend a eugenics conference.
"The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feebleminded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks, constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed. ....after a simple surgical operation [sterilisation], [those treated] could be permitted to live freely in the world without causing much inconvenience to others."
Winston CHURCHILL (Home Secretary), 1906. Quoted by A.Roberts, The Spectator, 9 iv 1994.
But Churchill went on to settle for ‘colonisation’ and separation of the sexes as the proper way to limit low-IQ procreation and in 1940 famously condemned the Nazi programme of “perverted science.”
"As the English doctor, A.F.Tredgold put it in a speech quoted by Winston Churchill in a 1910 Cabinet meeting, "....Colony life would....protect the feeble-minded from a certain section of society and society from the feeble-minded." In the U.S., colony provision was supplemented by legislation for involuntary sterilisation of defectives under which tens of thousands of men and women were sterilised in the first half of this century."
Phil FENNELL, 1994, Times Higher Educational Supplement, 21 x. (Reviewing J.W.Trent, Inventing the Feeble Mind, University of California Press.)
5. “….educated women are having fewer children. That surely is the real problem, because it is causing countries across the developed world to experience a drop in the birthrate of advantaged babies.”
Here MP agrees with Helmuth Nyborg. But her concession sits strangely alongside her Point 3, above. Apparently abstention from breeding on the part of low-IQ women won’t raise IQ; but abstention by the high-IQ will cause problems.
6. “The solution, though, is not to stop the poor having children but to alter patterns of behaviour – patterns which have been so disastrously promoted by those very educated people whom Professor Nyborg extols.”
Here MP introduces her long-preferred moralistic agenda. But she should acknowledge that ‘the permissive society’, with its high rate of divorce and single-parenting, has worked fine for the higher-IQ. It’s at low levels of IQ that the traditional disciplines and supervision provided by church, village gossips and mother-in-law are arguably needed. – A good reason for trying to get down the numbers of low-IQ parents!
7. “The educated classes make a fetish of intelligence. This leads some of them to advocate a draconian approach towards those they think don’t possess it. The result is that they single out the poor for punishment while neatly avoiding facing up to the need to tackle irresponsible behaviour, including their own. It’s not intelligence that matters. It’s behaviour, stupid!”
A ringing conclusion that will go straight into my Quotes about the Importance of Intelligence. Here are some others.
“Poverty, in the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth [tracking 12,000 young people since 1979, when they were 14 to 22 years old], is eight times more common among whites from poor backgrounds than among those who grew up in privilege — yet it’s fifteen times more common at the low end of the IQ spectrum. Illegitimacy is twice as common among the poorest whites as among the most prosperous, but it’s eight times as common among the dullest (IQ under 75) as it is among the brightest (IQ over 125). And males in the bottom half of the IQ distribution are nearly ten times as likely as those in the top half to find themselves in jail.”
Geoffrey COWLEY, 1994, ‘Testing the science of intelligence’, Newsweek, 24 x.
“The most extensive clinical studies of neglectful mothers have been conducted by Norman Polansky, whose many years of research began with a sample drawn from rural Appalachia, subsequently replicated with an urban Philadelphia sample. He described the typical neglectful mother as follows:
....The most extensive evidence describes the impulsiveness, inconsistency and confusion that mark the parenting style of many abusive parents [e.g. Smith et al., 1974, Brit.J.Psychiat. 125]. ....The inconsistency can reach mystifying proportions: one study of parent-child interactions found that children in abusing families had about the same chance of obtaining positive reinforcement for aggressive behaviors as for pro-social behaviors (Berger, 1980, Amer.J.Family Ther. 8). ....The reluctance of scholars and policymakers alike to look at the role of low intelligence in malparenting may properly be called scandalous.”
R.J.HERRNSTEIN & C.MURRAY, 1994, The Bell Curve. New York : Free Press.
“Today, as China is now known to have been embarked for the past six years on a vast programme of eugenics (in the Peking area), it is high time for the West to come to terms with IQ and with what is to be done about it. The last Western country to treat the g factor with as much contempt as do Britain and the USA today was Nazi Germany. With awe-inspiring indifference as to how to sustain Germany’s national culture or win a world war, the Nazis ensured the last great migration of intelligence in the West—giving the USA ‘the Bomb’ in the process (e.g. Hobsbawm, 1994*). (The Nazis thus reversed that original massive influx of entrepreneurial talent from which Prussia had so benefited after the Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Day in Paris.) Today, an equally serious question confronts the West: Can the triumph of Western liberal democracy be long sustained without taking intelligence seriously? Although the London School view of IQ has survived the Burt Affair, the importance of IQ and intelligence has still to be properly recognized.”
C.R.BRAND, 1997, ‘The importance of intelligence in Western societies.’ Journal of Biosocial Science (Special Issue, eds N.Mascie-Taylor & C.Brand).
* Hobsbawm (1994, Age of Extremes) observes: “The National Socialists....deprived themselves of the flower of continental Europe’s physical talent by driving Jews and ideological opponents into exile, incidentally destroying the early twentieth-century German scientific supremacy in the process. Between 1900 and 1933, twenty-five out of sixty-six Nobel prizes in Physics and Chemistry had gone to Germany; but since 1933 only about one in ten.”
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1. “….while an element of intelligence is passed on biologically from parents to children, other elements are not. So if surrounding circumstances are favourable, the children of poor parents – who themselves may or may not be intelligent -- can become highly educated.”
Why not quantify that element? It’s around 40%. Additionally, parents will influence child IQ if they provide poor, unstimulating, discouraging and unsympathetic environments – and that’s just what many low-IQ mothers do (as seen in the figures for child neglect and abuse quoted in The Bell Curve and The g Factor). To say children from low-IQ mothers “can” become highly educated is disingenuous beyond belief. The statistical expectation is that a mother of IQ80 will have children averaging IQ92. In today’s society, IQs at such levels carry serious consequences in ineducability, unemployability, criminality and proness to sexual diseases and unwwnted births.
2. “….there are many, many examples of bright people who come from the lowest social classes (not to mention stupid people from the upper classes). That’s why the low expectations of so many schools in poor areas are such a scandal, precisely because good schooling can make all the difference in raising children out of the disadvantage of their backgrounds.”
Here “many” is the slippery term. “Many, many” sounds a real lot. But what proportion of low-class-born kids become “bright people” [IQ 110 and over]? MP’s argument, if she has one, would be with sociologists* who have long concluded that even a traditional working class environment was a serious handicap in today’s educational world – and the modern single-parenting underclass and its genes are substantially worse.
*"Class inequalities in educational attainment have been consistently large during the post-war period in Scotland. In the late 1970's, middle-class children were more than four times as likely as working-class children to enter an advanced or degree-level course, and they were six times as likely to enter university."
A.F.McPHERSON & D.RAFFE, 1983, Edinburgh University Bulletin.
3. “….even if unintelligent women were to stop having children, this would not reduce the proportion of unintelligent people in the population; on the contrary, it might prevent as many potentially intelligent children from being born.”
The absurd conclusion from MP’s deceitful ‘cans’ and ‘manys’.
4. “….Heavily influenced by the American eugenists, Hitler started sterilising people with congenital illness in 1934….”
The majority of progressive and liberal people approved of eugenics. Feminists were specially keen on preventing rapists and sexual perverts from passing on their genes. Winston Churchill actually travelled to New York to attend a eugenics conference.
"The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feebleminded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks, constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed. ....after a simple surgical operation [sterilisation], [those treated] could be permitted to live freely in the world without causing much inconvenience to others."
Winston CHURCHILL (Home Secretary), 1906. Quoted by A.Roberts, The Spectator, 9 iv 1994.
But Churchill went on to settle for ‘colonisation’ and separation of the sexes as the proper way to limit low-IQ procreation and in 1940 famously condemned the Nazi programme of “perverted science.”
"As the English doctor, A.F.Tredgold put it in a speech quoted by Winston Churchill in a 1910 Cabinet meeting, "....Colony life would....protect the feeble-minded from a certain section of society and society from the feeble-minded." In the U.S., colony provision was supplemented by legislation for involuntary sterilisation of defectives under which tens of thousands of men and women were sterilised in the first half of this century."
Phil FENNELL, 1994, Times Higher Educational Supplement, 21 x. (Reviewing J.W.Trent, Inventing the Feeble Mind, University of California Press.)
5. “….educated women are having fewer children. That surely is the real problem, because it is causing countries across the developed world to experience a drop in the birthrate of advantaged babies.”
Here MP agrees with Helmuth Nyborg. But her concession sits strangely alongside her Point 3, above. Apparently abstention from breeding on the part of low-IQ women won’t raise IQ; but abstention by the high-IQ will cause problems.
6. “The solution, though, is not to stop the poor having children but to alter patterns of behaviour – patterns which have been so disastrously promoted by those very educated people whom Professor Nyborg extols.”
Here MP introduces her long-preferred moralistic agenda. But she should acknowledge that ‘the permissive society’, with its high rate of divorce and single-parenting, has worked fine for the higher-IQ. It’s at low levels of IQ that the traditional disciplines and supervision provided by church, village gossips and mother-in-law are arguably needed. – A good reason for trying to get down the numbers of low-IQ parents!
7. “The educated classes make a fetish of intelligence. This leads some of them to advocate a draconian approach towards those they think don’t possess it. The result is that they single out the poor for punishment while neatly avoiding facing up to the need to tackle irresponsible behaviour, including their own. It’s not intelligence that matters. It’s behaviour, stupid!”
A ringing conclusion that will go straight into my Quotes about the Importance of Intelligence. Here are some others.
“Poverty, in the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth [tracking 12,000 young people since 1979, when they were 14 to 22 years old], is eight times more common among whites from poor backgrounds than among those who grew up in privilege — yet it’s fifteen times more common at the low end of the IQ spectrum. Illegitimacy is twice as common among the poorest whites as among the most prosperous, but it’s eight times as common among the dullest (IQ under 75) as it is among the brightest (IQ over 125). And males in the bottom half of the IQ distribution are nearly ten times as likely as those in the top half to find themselves in jail.”
Geoffrey COWLEY, 1994, ‘Testing the science of intelligence’, Newsweek, 24 x.
“The most extensive clinical studies of neglectful mothers have been conducted by Norman Polansky, whose many years of research began with a sample drawn from rural Appalachia, subsequently replicated with an urban Philadelphia sample. He described the typical neglectful mother as follows:
She is of limited intelligence (IQ below 70), has failed to achieve more than an eighth-grade education, and has never held....employment.... She has at best a vague, or extremely limited idea of what her children need emotionally and physically. She seldom is able see things from the point of view of others and cannot take their needs into consideration when responding to a conflict they experience.
....The most extensive evidence describes the impulsiveness, inconsistency and confusion that mark the parenting style of many abusive parents [e.g. Smith et al., 1974, Brit.J.Psychiat. 125]. ....The inconsistency can reach mystifying proportions: one study of parent-child interactions found that children in abusing families had about the same chance of obtaining positive reinforcement for aggressive behaviors as for pro-social behaviors (Berger, 1980, Amer.J.Family Ther. 8). ....The reluctance of scholars and policymakers alike to look at the role of low intelligence in malparenting may properly be called scandalous.”
R.J.HERRNSTEIN & C.MURRAY, 1994, The Bell Curve. New York : Free Press.
“Today, as China is now known to have been embarked for the past six years on a vast programme of eugenics (in the Peking area), it is high time for the West to come to terms with IQ and with what is to be done about it. The last Western country to treat the g factor with as much contempt as do Britain and the USA today was Nazi Germany. With awe-inspiring indifference as to how to sustain Germany’s national culture or win a world war, the Nazis ensured the last great migration of intelligence in the West—giving the USA ‘the Bomb’ in the process (e.g. Hobsbawm, 1994*). (The Nazis thus reversed that original massive influx of entrepreneurial talent from which Prussia had so benefited after the Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Day in Paris.) Today, an equally serious question confronts the West: Can the triumph of Western liberal democracy be long sustained without taking intelligence seriously? Although the London School view of IQ has survived the Burt Affair, the importance of IQ and intelligence has still to be properly recognized.”
C.R.BRAND, 1997, ‘The importance of intelligence in Western societies.’ Journal of Biosocial Science (Special Issue, eds N.Mascie-Taylor & C.Brand).
* Hobsbawm (1994, Age of Extremes) observes: “The National Socialists....deprived themselves of the flower of continental Europe’s physical talent by driving Jews and ideological opponents into exile, incidentally destroying the early twentieth-century German scientific supremacy in the process. Between 1900 and 1933, twenty-five out of sixty-six Nobel prizes in Physics and Chemistry had gone to Germany; but since 1933 only about one in ten.”
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Sunday, October 12, 2003
IQ COMING IN
While IQ testing was spurned in the West lest it upset PeeCee’s pseudo-egalitarian apple cart, the Malaysian government announced the introduction of testing for all its primary school pupils -- they were particularly aiming to identify dyslexic children [poor reading but above-average IQ] so as to target them with special teaching. IQ testing was also coming in handy in Bandung, West Java, where the state-owned aircraft maker PT Dirgantara (PTDI) announced it would use IQ results to slim down its bloated workforce.
British universities also came a step nearer to testing intelligence, with Oxbridge announcing it was developing ‘special tests’ to try to identify academically able children from Britain’s lousy socialism-ridden comprehensive schools -- such tests would certainly measure IQ in all but name.
Further evidence of the value of IQ came from the University of Glasgow, where researcher Carole Hart had conducted a 70-year follow-up of 938 participants in the Scottish Mental Survey, which measured the IQ of 11-year-olds across Scotland on June 1, 1932. The dullest 25 per cent were found to have earlier deaths, with low IQ being particularly associated with heart disease and lung cancer. Only a third of the effect was linked to ‘deprivation and social class’.’ Having a high IQ was helpful chiefly to people living in poor areas.
{The claim that IQ is linked positively to “health, fitness and longevity” and negatively to smoking was first made by me in 1987 -- in a table reprinted on p. 300 of Arthur Jensen’s 1998 book, The g Factor: the Science of Mental Ability.}
IQ testing was also said in a Californian court case to help identify people who may have made false confessions under police interrogation -- about a quarter of such confessions come from the dullest 2·5% of the population.
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RACIAL PROFILING ALIVE AND WELL -- RACE AND HEALTH LINKED BIOLOGICALLY
Deep-seated links between race and disease were admitted by Washington
medics to the newspaper, The Arizona Republic. Apparently, rates of common chronic ailments such as heart disease, diabetes and asthma are significantly higher among African Americans than among non-Hispanic whites (although American Indians and Hispanics actually suffer higher rates of diabetes than do blacks). And death rates for such diseases show even greater racial disparities. Black women are more likely to suffer more aggressive forms of breast cancer than white women, are three to four times more likely to develop lupus and are up to nine times more likely to develop uterine fibroids. Obesity is 60 percent more prevalent in the African American population than among white Americans. The explanation? “Researchers had long believed that the social, environmental and economic stresses of lower-income and minority status explained those differences, but they could not ignore a growing mountain of research. Studies that compared the incidence of disease among twins, blood relatives and spouses, and among blacks in different economic strata, all suggested that inheritance plays a key role in the development, course and outcome of certain diseases.” When it came to medicine, said Cedars-Sinai geneticist Jerome Rotter, “it is very foolish to be colorblind, because ethnic groups differ in their genes. Only to some scientists is this a confusing concept.” Rotter acknowledged readily that, day in and day out, physicians and medical researchers engaged in racial profiling in deciding on diagnosis and the best treatment for patients. “In fact, it's called good medicine”, he said.
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While IQ testing was spurned in the West lest it upset PeeCee’s pseudo-egalitarian apple cart, the Malaysian government announced the introduction of testing for all its primary school pupils -- they were particularly aiming to identify dyslexic children [poor reading but above-average IQ] so as to target them with special teaching. IQ testing was also coming in handy in Bandung, West Java, where the state-owned aircraft maker PT Dirgantara (PTDI) announced it would use IQ results to slim down its bloated workforce.
British universities also came a step nearer to testing intelligence, with Oxbridge announcing it was developing ‘special tests’ to try to identify academically able children from Britain’s lousy socialism-ridden comprehensive schools -- such tests would certainly measure IQ in all but name.
Further evidence of the value of IQ came from the University of Glasgow, where researcher Carole Hart had conducted a 70-year follow-up of 938 participants in the Scottish Mental Survey, which measured the IQ of 11-year-olds across Scotland on June 1, 1932. The dullest 25 per cent were found to have earlier deaths, with low IQ being particularly associated with heart disease and lung cancer. Only a third of the effect was linked to ‘deprivation and social class’.’ Having a high IQ was helpful chiefly to people living in poor areas.
{The claim that IQ is linked positively to “health, fitness and longevity” and negatively to smoking was first made by me in 1987 -- in a table reprinted on p. 300 of Arthur Jensen’s 1998 book, The g Factor: the Science of Mental Ability.}
IQ testing was also said in a Californian court case to help identify people who may have made false confessions under police interrogation -- about a quarter of such confessions come from the dullest 2·5% of the population.
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RACIAL PROFILING ALIVE AND WELL -- RACE AND HEALTH LINKED BIOLOGICALLY
Deep-seated links between race and disease were admitted by Washington
medics to the newspaper, The Arizona Republic. Apparently, rates of common chronic ailments such as heart disease, diabetes and asthma are significantly higher among African Americans than among non-Hispanic whites (although American Indians and Hispanics actually suffer higher rates of diabetes than do blacks). And death rates for such diseases show even greater racial disparities. Black women are more likely to suffer more aggressive forms of breast cancer than white women, are three to four times more likely to develop lupus and are up to nine times more likely to develop uterine fibroids. Obesity is 60 percent more prevalent in the African American population than among white Americans. The explanation? “Researchers had long believed that the social, environmental and economic stresses of lower-income and minority status explained those differences, but they could not ignore a growing mountain of research. Studies that compared the incidence of disease among twins, blood relatives and spouses, and among blacks in different economic strata, all suggested that inheritance plays a key role in the development, course and outcome of certain diseases.” When it came to medicine, said Cedars-Sinai geneticist Jerome Rotter, “it is very foolish to be colorblind, because ethnic groups differ in their genes. Only to some scientists is this a confusing concept.” Rotter acknowledged readily that, day in and day out, physicians and medical researchers engaged in racial profiling in deciding on diagnosis and the best treatment for patients. “In fact, it's called good medicine”, he said.
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Saturday, October 11, 2003
LAING AND EYSENCK VINDICATED
Forty years ago, the Glaswegian psychiatrist (and alcoholic babe-bagger) Ronnie Laing threw out that psychosis was linked to creativity. Ten years ago, London School leader (and ex-German Junior tennis champion) Hans Eysenck began to say that psychosis, the personality trait Psychoticism and creativity were all linked to ‘latent inhibition’ – failing to suppress superficially useless memories. Now this:
FROM: psychiatry-research@yahoogroups.com
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Forty years ago, the Glaswegian psychiatrist (and alcoholic babe-bagger) Ronnie Laing threw out that psychosis was linked to creativity. Ten years ago, London School leader (and ex-German Junior tennis champion) Hans Eysenck began to say that psychosis, the personality trait Psychoticism and creativity were all linked to ‘latent inhibition’ – failing to suppress superficially useless memories. Now this:
FROM: psychiatry-research@yahoogroups.com
Biological basis for creativity linked to mental illness: Creative people more open to stimuli from environment
BY Jessica Whiteside
Sept. 30, 2003 -- Psychologists from U of Texas and Harvard University have identified one of the biological bases of creativity. The study in the September issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology says the brains of creative people appear to be more open to incoming stimuli from the surrounding environment. Other people's brains might shut out this same information through a process called "latent inhibition" - defined as an animal's unconscious capacity to ignore stimuli that experience has shown are irrelevant to its needs. Through psychological testing, the researchers showed that creative individuals are much more likely to have low levels of latent inhibition.
"This means that creative individuals remain in contact with the extra information constantly streaming in from the environment," says co-author and U of T psychology professor Jordan Peterson. "The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it, even though that object is much more complex and interesting than he or she thinks. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities."
Previously, scientists have associated failure to screen out stimuli with psychosis. However, Peterson and his co-researchers - lead author and psychology lecturer Shelley Carson of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard PhD candidate Daniel Higgins - hypothesized that it might also contribute to original thinking, especially when combined with high IQ. They administered tests of latent inhibition to Harvard undergraduates. Those classified as eminent creative achievers - participants under age 21 who reported unusually high scores in a single area of creative achievement - were seven times more likely to have low latent inhibition scores.
The authors hypothesize that latent inhibition may be positive when combined with high intelligence and good working memory - the capacity to think about many things at once - but negative otherwise. Peterson states: "If you are open to new information, new ideas, you better be able to intelligently and carefully edit and choose. If you have 50 ideas, only two or three are likely to be good. You have to be able to discriminate or you'll get swamped."
"Scientists have wondered for a long time why madness and creativity seem linked," says Carson. "It appears likely that low levels of latent inhibition and exceptional flexibility in thought might predispose to mental illness under some conditions and to creative accomplishment under others."
For example, during the early stages of diseases such as schizophrenia, which are often accompanied by feelings of deep insight, mystical knowledge and religious experience, chemical changes take place in which latent inhibition disappears. "We are very excited by the results of these studies," says Peterson. "It appears that we have not only identified one of the biological bases of creativity but have moved towards cracking an age-old mystery: the relationship between genius, madness and the doors of perception."
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Wednesday, October 08, 2003
COMPREHENSIVE SOCIALISM A FAILURE -- OFFICIAL!
The front page of the Daily Telegraph announced what the paper described as 'the biggest shake-up in secondary education for 60 years' (3 x). It said the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority had made an 'astonishingly low-key announcement' that, from the age of 14, children would in future be offered a choice between academic and vocational courses. The Daily Telegraph said the change marked the end of the national curriculum for children aged 14 and over, 'amounting to an admission that 30 years of comprehensive education had failed'. In future, said a government handout (from the “Qualification and Curriculum Authority”) each state school child would have a “negotiated individual learning plan” from age 14 -- allowing a choice between paths to philosophy or plumbing
RACE ’N’ CRIME REALISM
On the eve of the UK ‘Conservative’ Party’s annual conference, a nationwide (Populus) poll told them how to win back voters (Times, 4 x 03). Asked what would make them vote Conservative, 46% of Brits said “proposing much tougher sentencing for convicted criminals” and 43% said “presenting a clear plan to reduce the number of asylum-seekers entering Britain.” By contrast, only 9% of voters said they would be impressed by “radical policies to restructure the National Health Service” and only 22% were interested in “measures to support marriage and the traditional family.”
JEWISH RACE REALISM
Late in the day, admittedly, but a New York Jewish group, ‘Jewish Task Force’ (which aimed to “save America and Israel...from hateful anti-American Muslim fanatics”) weighed in to the Californian election on the side of (leftie-smeared ‘sexually harassing Nazi’) Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently, left-wing Democrat candidate Cruz Bustamante still supported a Hispanic organization he joined in his youth which remained openly racist, having as its motto ‘For the [Hispanic] race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing.’ The organization, MEChA, was shamelessly “anti-White and anti-Semitic” and aimed for a violent take-over of the south-western states of the USA (four of which already had a 25% Hispanic population -- California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas).
Also, while Italy’s leader Silvio Berlusconi faced a hailstorm of criticism for saying Mussolini hadn’t been the worst, American Jewry’s ‘Anti-Defamation League’ decided to stand by its awarding Berlusconi the title ‘Statesman of the Year’ for his stout defence of Israel’s efforts to deal with Islamic terror.
FEMINISTS TO FEEL HEAT
After a 17-year-old girl claimed she had been raped by some half-a-dozen Black footballers in a London hotel, the News of the World (5 x 03) defended the 12-hour orgy -- throughout which the girl apparently made no complaint and finally enjoyed her hotel breakfast with the lads at 1p.m. the next day. The ‘News of the Screws’ headline was: “She had sex with all of us. No-one forced her. She never said No”.
Supposedly the girl had spent some time in a restaurant suggesting to the men that she would fancy a gang-bang. Orgies, it turned out, were a standard part of twenty-first century British soccer: the practice of gang-banging enthusiastic young females was called ‘roasting’ (as of a chicken, cf. ‘stuffing’). The talkative Black ‘party organizer’ who had taken the girl to the hotel and had sex with her (consensually, both agree, but then the soccer stars turned up): “It's a 50/50 chance that if someone walked up to a girl in a club and said a soccer star wants to s**g them, they'd say, ‘Oh really, does he?' But British feminazies were unlikely to take all this lying down...
Soon afterwards, England’s most expensive soccer star, Black full back Rio Ferdinand, who cost £30 million, failed to turn up for a routine drug test, prompting suspicions that he had once more been on the town or worse -- he had several convictions and penalizations for drinking, speeding, violence and mixing with known drug dealers. Ferdinand, who said he had been distracted while purchasing a new house (i.e. mansion), was suspended just four days before England’s big match with Turkey -- a fine tribute to what ‘diversity’ can do for a football squad.
MILLIONAIRES AS SURVIVORS
From research into 300 of the UK’s 5,000 self-made millionaires emerged a remarkable result: “Self-made millionaires are four times more likely to suffer from dyslexia than the rest of the population” (Daily Mail, 6 x 03). The result was announced by business psychologist Adrian Atkinson.
According to the British Dyslexia Association, some 4% of the population is dyslexic, with a further 6% showing mild to moderate problems; but 40% of self-made millionaires had been diagnosed at some stage as dyslexic. Star examples of dyslexic millionaires are Lord Heseltine (former Conservative Defence Secretary), businessman Sir Richard Branson and supermodel Jodie Kidd.
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The front page of the Daily Telegraph announced what the paper described as 'the biggest shake-up in secondary education for 60 years' (3 x). It said the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority had made an 'astonishingly low-key announcement' that, from the age of 14, children would in future be offered a choice between academic and vocational courses. The Daily Telegraph said the change marked the end of the national curriculum for children aged 14 and over, 'amounting to an admission that 30 years of comprehensive education had failed'. In future, said a government handout (from the “Qualification and Curriculum Authority”) each state school child would have a “negotiated individual learning plan” from age 14 -- allowing a choice between paths to philosophy or plumbing
RACE ’N’ CRIME REALISM
On the eve of the UK ‘Conservative’ Party’s annual conference, a nationwide (Populus) poll told them how to win back voters (Times, 4 x 03). Asked what would make them vote Conservative, 46% of Brits said “proposing much tougher sentencing for convicted criminals” and 43% said “presenting a clear plan to reduce the number of asylum-seekers entering Britain.” By contrast, only 9% of voters said they would be impressed by “radical policies to restructure the National Health Service” and only 22% were interested in “measures to support marriage and the traditional family.”
JEWISH RACE REALISM
Late in the day, admittedly, but a New York Jewish group, ‘Jewish Task Force’ (which aimed to “save America and Israel...from hateful anti-American Muslim fanatics”) weighed in to the Californian election on the side of (leftie-smeared ‘sexually harassing Nazi’) Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently, left-wing Democrat candidate Cruz Bustamante still supported a Hispanic organization he joined in his youth which remained openly racist, having as its motto ‘For the [Hispanic] race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing.’ The organization, MEChA, was shamelessly “anti-White and anti-Semitic” and aimed for a violent take-over of the south-western states of the USA (four of which already had a 25% Hispanic population -- California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas).
Also, while Italy’s leader Silvio Berlusconi faced a hailstorm of criticism for saying Mussolini hadn’t been the worst, American Jewry’s ‘Anti-Defamation League’ decided to stand by its awarding Berlusconi the title ‘Statesman of the Year’ for his stout defence of Israel’s efforts to deal with Islamic terror.
FEMINISTS TO FEEL HEAT
After a 17-year-old girl claimed she had been raped by some half-a-dozen Black footballers in a London hotel, the News of the World (5 x 03) defended the 12-hour orgy -- throughout which the girl apparently made no complaint and finally enjoyed her hotel breakfast with the lads at 1p.m. the next day. The ‘News of the Screws’ headline was: “She had sex with all of us. No-one forced her. She never said No”.
Supposedly the girl had spent some time in a restaurant suggesting to the men that she would fancy a gang-bang. Orgies, it turned out, were a standard part of twenty-first century British soccer: the practice of gang-banging enthusiastic young females was called ‘roasting’ (as of a chicken, cf. ‘stuffing’). The talkative Black ‘party organizer’ who had taken the girl to the hotel and had sex with her (consensually, both agree, but then the soccer stars turned up): “It's a 50/50 chance that if someone walked up to a girl in a club and said a soccer star wants to s**g them, they'd say, ‘Oh really, does he?' But British feminazies were unlikely to take all this lying down...
Soon afterwards, England’s most expensive soccer star, Black full back Rio Ferdinand, who cost £30 million, failed to turn up for a routine drug test, prompting suspicions that he had once more been on the town or worse -- he had several convictions and penalizations for drinking, speeding, violence and mixing with known drug dealers. Ferdinand, who said he had been distracted while purchasing a new house (i.e. mansion), was suspended just four days before England’s big match with Turkey -- a fine tribute to what ‘diversity’ can do for a football squad.
MILLIONAIRES AS SURVIVORS
From research into 300 of the UK’s 5,000 self-made millionaires emerged a remarkable result: “Self-made millionaires are four times more likely to suffer from dyslexia than the rest of the population” (Daily Mail, 6 x 03). The result was announced by business psychologist Adrian Atkinson.
According to the British Dyslexia Association, some 4% of the population is dyslexic, with a further 6% showing mild to moderate problems; but 40% of self-made millionaires had been diagnosed at some stage as dyslexic. Star examples of dyslexic millionaires are Lord Heseltine (former Conservative Defence Secretary), businessman Sir Richard Branson and supermodel Jodie Kidd.
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Tuesday, October 07, 2003
INTELLECTUAL TURNS AT LAST
A ban on the immigration into Britain of religious extremists (presumably Muslim) was urged by Leicester University’s Professor of History, Richard Bonney (Times Higher, 26 ix).
WHEEL RE-INVENTED
Shocking the readers of the Observer newspaper (28 ix), one of that paper’s reporters filed to the effect that skull size, brain size, IQ, memory and resistance to the cognitive ravages of age were all pretty strongly linked. However, the report (of work by Christopher Martyn at the University of Southampton) made no mention of previous similar observations by Professor J. Philippe Rushton -- as also by Emeritus Professor Arthur Jensen and Professor Vincent Egan (Glasgow Caledonian University).
DANISH DEAN DEMONIZED
Top differential psychologist Helmuth Nyborg, of Aarhus University, spoke out in favour of paying low-IQ people if they refrain from having more children ‘ for whom the bottom 15% of the population are notoriously ill-suited to cope (see The g Factor, Chapter 4). (Such a proposal had first been made by Nobel Prize-winner William Shockley in the 1970’s, causing consternation among leftists in the USA and the effort by Leon Kamin to blacken the name of Sir Cyril Burt. IQ psychologists then fought back with research linking IQ strongly to ‘mental speed’, with new demonstrations of the importance of the g factor, and with a major new twin study showing g to be highly heritable.) Nyborg was promptly jumped on by Denmark’s ‘Integration Minister’, Bertel Haarder, who said Nyborg's suggestions were “against all moral principles”
Prof. Lene Koch, of Denmark’s Public Health Institute, who said genetic scientists around the world ‘had rejected the theory that intelligence was hereditary’, by New Zealand’s Stuff webzine which denied that a high IQ was of any great value; by various other politicians and ‘experts’, and by usually right-wing columnist Melanie Phillips in the London Daily Mail (1 x 03). But Nyborg, the Dean of the Institute of Psychology at Aarhus, stated his views boldly, plainly and at some length, saying: “It's easy to make associations to Hitler and Nazism. But my proposal has nothing to do with Nazism. Hitler was not a eugenicist, but an ideologue who abused eugenics. He didn't want to improve the human race, he wanted to get rid of certain groups such as Jews, gypsies and homosexuals, and he massacred many of the more intelligent among them. Between 10 and 20 per cent of the population, who cannot fill in a time sheet at work or who cannot hold down a job or care adequately for their children, should not reproduce. We are all aware of this problem, but we don't dare to talk about it. But we should talk -- for the sake of society and the future, so that we can have productive citizens and not people who need help.”
{Apart from not mentioning that “help” is now a vast job-creation programme for people of left-ish views, Helmuth didn’t leave much out. (He might have noted the sterilization programme for drug-addicted single mothers run by ‘Children Requiring a Caring Komuunity’ [C.R.A.C.K.] in the USA.) A job well done by the editor of the recent Festschrift for Arthur Jensen (The Scientific Study of General Intelligence, Oxford : Pergamon)! The story was covered by Humanité (Paris); by Australia’s News.com, Courier-Mail (Brisbane) and Sydney Morning Herald; by Julian Isherwood in the Daily Telegraph and Chicago-Sun Times; in Gulf Daily News (‘The Voice of Bahrain’); and a bit more sympathetically in Straits Times, Singapore (where Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yu once encouraged eugenics). It could lead to the first big debate about IQ since the attacks on Art Jensen and Hans Eysenck in the early 1970’s, on Phil Rushton and Richard Lynn in the late 1980’s and on Glayde Whitney, Charles Murray, Raymond Cattell and myself in the mid-1990’s. My own views on how to dissociate eugenics from the Nazizeit are set out in a (substantial) essay, ‘Liberating the Future’ ‘ currently on offer to the Brussels magazine, The Sprout.}
BRAVE RACE REALIST
America’s Rush Limbaugh faced down a storm of criticism after he had said a Black footballer, Donovan McNabb, was over-rated because “the media had been very desirous that a Black quarterback do well.” The relatively-right-wing chat-show host resigned from another show to oblige his seniors, but he remained unrepentant on his own radio show (which typically reaches 20 million listeners).
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A ban on the immigration into Britain of religious extremists (presumably Muslim) was urged by Leicester University’s Professor of History, Richard Bonney (Times Higher, 26 ix).
WHEEL RE-INVENTED
Shocking the readers of the Observer newspaper (28 ix), one of that paper’s reporters filed to the effect that skull size, brain size, IQ, memory and resistance to the cognitive ravages of age were all pretty strongly linked. However, the report (of work by Christopher Martyn at the University of Southampton) made no mention of previous similar observations by Professor J. Philippe Rushton -- as also by Emeritus Professor Arthur Jensen and Professor Vincent Egan (Glasgow Caledonian University).
DANISH DEAN DEMONIZED
Top differential psychologist Helmuth Nyborg, of Aarhus University, spoke out in favour of paying low-IQ people if they refrain from having more children ‘ for whom the bottom 15% of the population are notoriously ill-suited to cope (see The g Factor, Chapter 4). (Such a proposal had first been made by Nobel Prize-winner William Shockley in the 1970’s, causing consternation among leftists in the USA and the effort by Leon Kamin to blacken the name of Sir Cyril Burt. IQ psychologists then fought back with research linking IQ strongly to ‘mental speed’, with new demonstrations of the importance of the g factor, and with a major new twin study showing g to be highly heritable.) Nyborg was promptly jumped on by Denmark’s ‘Integration Minister’, Bertel Haarder, who said Nyborg's suggestions were “against all moral principles”
Prof. Lene Koch, of Denmark’s Public Health Institute, who said genetic scientists around the world ‘had rejected the theory that intelligence was hereditary’, by New Zealand’s Stuff webzine which denied that a high IQ was of any great value; by various other politicians and ‘experts’, and by usually right-wing columnist Melanie Phillips in the London Daily Mail (1 x 03). But Nyborg, the Dean of the Institute of Psychology at Aarhus, stated his views boldly, plainly and at some length, saying: “It's easy to make associations to Hitler and Nazism. But my proposal has nothing to do with Nazism. Hitler was not a eugenicist, but an ideologue who abused eugenics. He didn't want to improve the human race, he wanted to get rid of certain groups such as Jews, gypsies and homosexuals, and he massacred many of the more intelligent among them. Between 10 and 20 per cent of the population, who cannot fill in a time sheet at work or who cannot hold down a job or care adequately for their children, should not reproduce. We are all aware of this problem, but we don't dare to talk about it. But we should talk -- for the sake of society and the future, so that we can have productive citizens and not people who need help.”
{Apart from not mentioning that “help” is now a vast job-creation programme for people of left-ish views, Helmuth didn’t leave much out. (He might have noted the sterilization programme for drug-addicted single mothers run by ‘Children Requiring a Caring Komuunity’ [C.R.A.C.K.] in the USA.) A job well done by the editor of the recent Festschrift for Arthur Jensen (The Scientific Study of General Intelligence, Oxford : Pergamon)! The story was covered by Humanité (Paris); by Australia’s News.com, Courier-Mail (Brisbane) and Sydney Morning Herald; by Julian Isherwood in the Daily Telegraph and Chicago-Sun Times; in Gulf Daily News (‘The Voice of Bahrain’); and a bit more sympathetically in Straits Times, Singapore (where Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yu once encouraged eugenics). It could lead to the first big debate about IQ since the attacks on Art Jensen and Hans Eysenck in the early 1970’s, on Phil Rushton and Richard Lynn in the late 1980’s and on Glayde Whitney, Charles Murray, Raymond Cattell and myself in the mid-1990’s. My own views on how to dissociate eugenics from the Nazizeit are set out in a (substantial) essay, ‘Liberating the Future’ ‘ currently on offer to the Brussels magazine, The Sprout.}
BRAVE RACE REALIST
America’s Rush Limbaugh faced down a storm of criticism after he had said a Black footballer, Donovan McNabb, was over-rated because “the media had been very desirous that a Black quarterback do well.” The relatively-right-wing chat-show host resigned from another show to oblige his seniors, but he remained unrepentant on his own radio show (which typically reaches 20 million listeners).
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Sunday, October 05, 2003
TOP ANTI-ORIENTALIST KICKS BUCKET
Here is how the Wall Street Journal (25 ix 03) gleefully announced the demise of the man who persuaded a generation of Western lefties to believe that all Western work on other nations and races was shot through with what he called Orientalism, i.e. undiscriminating prejudice against all peoples and cultures east of Constantinople.
What with the death of loony-left Stephen Jay Gould earlier this year, hereditarians are on something of a roll -- making for their own losses c. 2000 of Lee Willerman, Hans Eysenck and Glayde Whitney.
SPECCIE HAS A GO
Perhaps emboldened by David Blunkett's race-realist stirrings (the blind Home Secretary is healthily horrified when he happens to learn what modern Britain is really like and had begun to propose bioinformatic identity cards so as to identify illegal immigrants), the Speccies Associate Editor, Rod Liddle put the boot into Black community and its tremulous community-worshipping appended social workers of Birmingham who failed to prevent a 7-year-old Black girl from being shot dead in the back so she would never identify the murderer of her Black drug-dealing father for whom his gangland boss had called (27 ix).
PEECEE TV RUBBISHED
The over-representation of ethnic minorities in Britain's TV dramas, soaps, voxpops and advertisements was deplored by top intellectual Sir Ludovic Kennedy, 83.
'Ludo', as he is known, famous for his liberalism and for pinpointing and remedying injustices, wrote in The Oldie that political correctness had got "completely out of hand" and urged producers to bring ethnic minority appearances down to the 7.5% that would be in line with their percentage of the U.K. population. A BBC spokesman promptly replied that ethnic minorities were 9% of the UK population, and sometimes 30% in the inner-city areas where soap operas are set. Mr A. Yentob, director of BBC drama, said that Sir Ludovic "should get out more." Channel 4, which takes 11% of its staff from ethnic minorities, said of Sir Ludovic's remarks:
"We do not think these comments justify a response. They are clearly ludicrous.'' The Commission for Racial Equality said: "It is sad to see a well-known author and commentator like Ludovic Kennedy so misunderstand the realities of modern multi-racial Britain."
{In fact 2001 Census figures showed that non-White ethnic minorities were 7.9% of the U.K. population (and 9.1% of England's population) Rural areas around London had around 4% of their population from non-White ethnic groups.}
Product of Edinburgh, Eton, Christ Church (Oxford) and the Navy, writer and broadcaster Ludo has a reputation for outspeaking -- earlier in 2003 describing one TV presenter as "an ageing hamster." His work has involved radio and television, including being a presenter of Independent Television News (ITN), and writing in Newsweek magazine. He is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society (along with such dedicated atheists as Richard Dawkins and Gore Vidal). In 2001 he resigned his 45-year membership of the Liberal Democrats because its new leader, Charles Kennedy, would not support voluntary euthanasia.
DEFYING PEECEE
Malysian Airlines said it would resist a suit by a trade union demanding that air stewardesses include representative numbers of ethnic minorities, fatties, oldies etc. (John Ray, 24 ix). A top manager said, “Let's face reality. Customers prefer to be served by young, demure and pretty stewardesses, especially Asian ladies.” {“Girls”, surely!}
INDISCRIMINATE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION SLAMMED
The muddle of the West’s reaction to 9/11 was exposed at VDare (19 ix). Contrary to all reason, it is actually illegal for a US airline to insist or even to prefer that its pilots are US citizens!
UK SAYS KENYA RAPE REPORTS 'FAKE' (26 ix 03)
After the British Government paid out £4.5million to Kenyans who claimed they had been hurt by munitions left behind in the 1960’s, the country proceeded to produce a tidal wave of allegations of rape by British soldiers (while fighting the Kenyan terrorists, the Mau Mau). Thankfully the British High Commission in Nairobi, after examining the supposed police records of these ancient ‘rapes’ was able to conclude that they were all forged -- and thus a splendid testimony at once to African greed, duplicity and stupidity.
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Here is how the Wall Street Journal (25 ix 03) gleefully announced the demise of the man who persuaded a generation of Western lefties to believe that all Western work on other nations and races was shot through with what he called Orientalism, i.e. undiscriminating prejudice against all peoples and cultures east of Constantinople.
Said Dead
Edward Said, a rock-throwing Columbia literature professor known for his virulent anti-Israel and anti-America views, is dead at 67. Said last appeared in this column in May, when we quoted an article he wrote for the crackpot Web site Counterpunch.org:
"Wherever you look in the Congress there are the tell-tale signs either of the Zionist lobby, the right-wing Christians, or the military-industrial complex, three inordinately influential minority groups who share hostility to the Arab world, unbridled support for extremist Zionism, and an insensate conviction that they are on the side of the angels."
Charming, wasn't he? Said portrayed himself as a victim of Israeli aggression, but in a 1999 issue of Commentary, Justus Weiner published the results of an extensive investigation that disproved many of Said's autobiographical claims:
"The plain, direct and honest truth is radically at odds with the parable he has been at pains to construct over the decades," Weiner wrote. "That parable, designed to augment the passions that have animated the revanchist program of so many Palestinian nationalists, is a lie."
What with the death of loony-left Stephen Jay Gould earlier this year, hereditarians are on something of a roll -- making for their own losses c. 2000 of Lee Willerman, Hans Eysenck and Glayde Whitney.
SPECCIE HAS A GO
Perhaps emboldened by David Blunkett's race-realist stirrings (the blind Home Secretary is healthily horrified when he happens to learn what modern Britain is really like and had begun to propose bioinformatic identity cards so as to identify illegal immigrants), the Speccies Associate Editor, Rod Liddle put the boot into Black community and its tremulous community-worshipping appended social workers of Birmingham who failed to prevent a 7-year-old Black girl from being shot dead in the back so she would never identify the murderer of her Black drug-dealing father for whom his gangland boss had called (27 ix).
PEECEE TV RUBBISHED
The over-representation of ethnic minorities in Britain's TV dramas, soaps, voxpops and advertisements was deplored by top intellectual Sir Ludovic Kennedy, 83.
'Ludo', as he is known, famous for his liberalism and for pinpointing and remedying injustices, wrote in The Oldie that political correctness had got "completely out of hand" and urged producers to bring ethnic minority appearances down to the 7.5% that would be in line with their percentage of the U.K. population. A BBC spokesman promptly replied that ethnic minorities were 9% of the UK population, and sometimes 30% in the inner-city areas where soap operas are set. Mr A. Yentob, director of BBC drama, said that Sir Ludovic "should get out more." Channel 4, which takes 11% of its staff from ethnic minorities, said of Sir Ludovic's remarks:
"We do not think these comments justify a response. They are clearly ludicrous.'' The Commission for Racial Equality said: "It is sad to see a well-known author and commentator like Ludovic Kennedy so misunderstand the realities of modern multi-racial Britain."
{In fact 2001 Census figures showed that non-White ethnic minorities were 7.9% of the U.K. population (and 9.1% of England's population) Rural areas around London had around 4% of their population from non-White ethnic groups.}
Product of Edinburgh, Eton, Christ Church (Oxford) and the Navy, writer and broadcaster Ludo has a reputation for outspeaking -- earlier in 2003 describing one TV presenter as "an ageing hamster." His work has involved radio and television, including being a presenter of Independent Television News (ITN), and writing in Newsweek magazine. He is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society (along with such dedicated atheists as Richard Dawkins and Gore Vidal). In 2001 he resigned his 45-year membership of the Liberal Democrats because its new leader, Charles Kennedy, would not support voluntary euthanasia.
DEFYING PEECEE
Malysian Airlines said it would resist a suit by a trade union demanding that air stewardesses include representative numbers of ethnic minorities, fatties, oldies etc. (John Ray, 24 ix). A top manager said, “Let's face reality. Customers prefer to be served by young, demure and pretty stewardesses, especially Asian ladies.” {“Girls”, surely!}
INDISCRIMINATE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION SLAMMED
The muddle of the West’s reaction to 9/11 was exposed at VDare (19 ix). Contrary to all reason, it is actually illegal for a US airline to insist or even to prefer that its pilots are US citizens!
UK SAYS KENYA RAPE REPORTS 'FAKE' (26 ix 03)
After the British Government paid out £4.5million to Kenyans who claimed they had been hurt by munitions left behind in the 1960’s, the country proceeded to produce a tidal wave of allegations of rape by British soldiers (while fighting the Kenyan terrorists, the Mau Mau). Thankfully the British High Commission in Nairobi, after examining the supposed police records of these ancient ‘rapes’ was able to conclude that they were all forged -- and thus a splendid testimony at once to African greed, duplicity and stupidity.
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Comments? Email Chris Brand.
Some history.
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