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Comment on Sustainability by anon

anon — Sat, 25 May 2013 01:35:45 +0000

IQ is a concept that requires some renovation. We’re not getting dumber, unless you think Google is making us dumber, which is *the* dumbest idea there is.

No, intelligence is shiftily migrating out of individuals and into the information ether, tapped when needed.

We’ve never been smarter.

Comment on The End of Science by Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 25 May 2013 01:25:21 +0000

I notice many folks in HBD-land doubt that MAOA is a violence gene. Since a large portion of the modern population has MAOA-L and are not violent, Horgan’s argument is accepted. As nooffensebut has promoted, Beaver 2012, was published last fall that shows the more rare MAOA-2R allele has a stronger correlation with more extreme levels of delinquent behavior. The Beaver 2012 paper has not much attention.

http://www.soc.iastate.edu/staff/delisi/MAOA%202013.pdf

Comment on The End of Science by Julian

Julian — Sat, 25 May 2013 01:23:31 +0000

Neil Risch was interviewed in the Atlantic a day or so ago about research on group differences.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/race-intelligence-and-genetics-for-curious-dummies/276154/

Steve Hsu has updated a post he made in 2007 with some comments.

http://infoproc.blogspot.co.nz/2007/01/metric-on-space-of-genomes-and.html

Comment on The End of Science by John Horgan wants to ban war in addition to race! | Occam's Razor

John Horgan wants to ban war in addition to race! | Occam's Razor — Sat, 25 May 2013 01:23:12 +0000

[…] Horgan, the dimwit who writes for the Scientific American, previously wrote that all research on race and IQ should be banned. Now he thinks that war should be banned too! He […]

Comment on The End of Science by Greying Wanderer

Greying Wanderer — Fri, 24 May 2013 23:25:43 +0000

That’s what funny about it. He looks like the sort of person who has a lot of that extreme aggression but paired with enough self-control to not end up in jail.

Comment on The End of Science by nooffensebut

nooffensebut — Fri, 24 May 2013 22:58:56 +0000

Horgan also isn't above spreading falsehoods about the "warrior gene," monoamine oxidase A, for the same reasons. Pointing this out to Razib Khan brought me threats of being "banned" from his ~~genetics~~ history blog.

Comment on Clark/Frost Domestication by Toad

Toad — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:18:44 +0000

Less cover for lice and fleas.

Comment on The End of Science by Scharlach

Scharlach — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:09:14 +0000

And given that our hosts work for Utah, they might have something in their contracts from ever discussing anything related to this issue upon threat of dismemberment.

Comment on The End of Science by Scharlach

Scharlach — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:04:18 +0000

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/05/21/the-e-cat-is-back-and-people-are-still-falling-for-it/

Comment on The End of Science by dave chamberlin

dave chamberlin — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:59:59 +0000

I’ve listened to Horgan enough and skim read his shitty books to know he isn’t smart or stupid or dangerous. He should be teaching science intro classes at some junior college, he is rather unsuccessfully tying to make a living as a science journalist. Forget about him, he’s one of the little people waving his arms around hoping for attention. It isn’t all that hard to predict what is rolling at us, when it gets here and how it gets here, who knows. The ultimate Rosetta stone is our DNA and when we decipher it so that we know why some of us are a whole lot more intelligent than others then random chance evolution ends and genetic engineering that begins by fixing stupid starts. It also isn’t hard to predict that the research on this subject will be actively suppressed in the United States and Europe. So what do we do? Pay attention to this developing story, mock fools like Horgan, and hope “free” countries that are pursuing actual research move quickly. Because guess what happens when the next generation gets presented with the option of an IQ bump of 20 or 30 points. I don’t believe Steve Hsu is right that the company BGI will get this done in twenty years. I’d like to be wrong but I’m afraid he is underestimating the complexity of the task. What can happen in twenty years is enough has been discovered to initiate a race. And the Horgans of the world will be as shrill as ever. But guess what, smart people will be able to vote with their pocket books, investing in companies like BGI. And those that try to suppress these advances will have just about as much luck as all the other prohibition fanatics have had.