tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post2444615893971358326..comments2024-03-29T05:14:33.223-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: James Watson as a leaderUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35211300317526579552007-10-24T00:30:00.000-07:002007-10-24T00:30:00.000-07:00The most important issue of the modern era is whet...<I>The most important issue of the modern era is whether or not the West can come to grips with the IQ-race nexus and all its implications.</I><BR/><BR/>No, the most important issue of our time is whether or not the West can come to grips with the dangers of excessive immigration and face the truth that too much racial diversity is detrimental to our survival.<BR/><BR/><I>It is no exaggeration to say that virtually every major story today -- terrorism, crime, health care, income inequality, immigration -- has this unmentionable issue at its root.</I><BR/><BR/>Not necessarily. There are a whole lot of very smart people who believe in really dumb ideas. Politically, I'd pick a white contruction worker from Alabama over a marketing manager from San Fran any day. <BR/><BR/><BR/><I>Those who are not can pray to imaginary gods while men with real courage stand up to Big Brother.</I><BR/><BR/>Well like it or not, those people praying to "imaginary gods" are probably doing far more to save Western civilization than you are. For one thing, they're actually bothering to have kids. Most other whites have outsourced that job.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89675953443269297642007-10-23T18:04:00.000-07:002007-10-23T18:04:00.000-07:00but we shouldn't feel obliged to falsely make a ma...<I> but we shouldn't feel obliged to falsely make a man a hero if we think he doesn't deserve it. </I><BR/><BR/>He does deserve it. He discovered the structure of DNA, built up Cold Spring Harbor, and spoke truth -- however briefly -- to power. <BR/><BR/>That's a hell of a lot more impressive than mindlessly repeating what you read in the Bible or the Torah or Koran or what have you. <BR/><BR/>Glorying over the attack on him by the rabid dogs of the media -- as if this was some sin that Watson brought on himself by failure to believe in Jesus! -- is just stupid. It's exactly the same thing as Westboro Baptist seeing the hand of the Lord in the deaths of American soldiers. <BR/><BR/>As for Hitchens re: race, I'm reminded of Churchill: <BR/><BR/><I><BR/><BR/>If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. </I><BR/><BR/>The most important issue of the modern era is whether or not the West can come to grips with the IQ-race nexus and all its implications. It is no exaggeration to say that virtually every major story today -- terrorism, crime, health care, income inequality, immigration -- has this unmentionable issue at its root. Those who are pragmatic about the fate of the west will ally with all who are willing to use their positions to spread truth on this issue. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Those who are not can pray to imaginary gods while men with real courage stand up to Big Brother. It takes utterly no courage to believe in fairy tales from JC or PC, or to kick a great man when he's down. <BR/><BR/><BR/>JWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29404265461874383302007-10-23T13:19:00.000-07:002007-10-23T13:19:00.000-07:00Way to succeed: Tell people what they want to hear...Way to succeed: Tell people what they want to hear.<BR/><BR/>Way to be in hot water: Tell people what they don't want to hear.<BR/><BR/>Dr. Watson should sue the hell out of the "lab" (sic) and the reporterette who probably incorrectly quoted even his full interview statement.<BR/><BR/>The "lab" (sic) is a fraud in my opinion. Its supporters should end their support. How can it help to find cures if it is congenitally allergic to the truth? and more: is <B>actively hostile to the truth on principle</B>?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50574420274291860052007-10-23T08:23:00.000-07:002007-10-23T08:23:00.000-07:00jack:The Observer article is troubling, both for t...jack:<BR/><BR/>The Observer article is troubling, both for the information it reports and for the slant it gives to the story. It says that this episode was partly caused by Watson's "hubris." I certainly wouldn't have chosen that word, since it has negative connotations. Also the article quotes people saying that there are different kinds of intelligence not measured by IQ tests and that intelligence is not correlated with skin color. Both of these statements may be true in a sense, but they are still obfuscations in my opinion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25885509181222785392007-10-23T06:55:00.000-07:002007-10-23T06:55:00.000-07:00Anonymous 1:27: It looks as if you believe in a PC...Anonymous 1:27: It looks as if you believe in a PC of your own. We shouldn't pile on a man when he's down, but we shouldn't feel obliged to falsely make a man a hero if we think he doesn't deserve it. Why should religion be any more off the table for discussion than racial differences? If Christopher Hitchens made a politically incorrect comment about race, would all his other views suddenly become beyond criticism?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71867657871343193272007-10-23T04:37:00.000-07:002007-10-23T04:37:00.000-07:00The "skeptics" at "The Skeptics' Guide to the Univ...The "skeptics" at "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe" abandon some of their skepticism when it comes to egalitarian dogma: <BR/><A HREF="http://www.theskepticsguide.org/skepticsguide/podcastinfo.asp?pid=117" REL="nofollow">Skepticast #117: 10/17/2007</A><BR/>The female "skeptic" acts as the attack dog, savaging Watson while the Chief Skeptic makes a lame attempt to maintain an illusion of objectivity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16398844419261411552007-10-23T01:27:00.000-07:002007-10-23T01:27:00.000-07:00a horrible philosopher Seriously, STFU. Watson has...<I> a horrible philosopher </I><BR/><BR/>Seriously, STFU. Watson has been attacked by all manner of morons on the left. Attacking him from the Jeebus right at this point is uncalled for and simply unnecessary. <BR/><BR/>And in any case, had Watson believed in Jesus or a sky fairy or whatever, it wouldn't have saved him. The problem is belief in PC, not lack of belief in JC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41480151229592498282007-10-22T23:43:00.000-07:002007-10-22T23:43:00.000-07:00On head size and IQ, mentioned by the above commen...On head size and IQ, mentioned by the above commenter, Chris Langan, one of the world's smartest people as far as IQ tests are concerned, claims he has a head 11 standard deviations from the norm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91514635945225295822007-10-22T22:11:00.000-07:002007-10-22T22:11:00.000-07:00Off the topic entirely, Mr. Sailer, but what's up ...Off the topic entirely, Mr. Sailer, but what's up with the complete silence at VDare on the Swiss elections? It seems like the kind of news would want to pop a bottle of bubbly over.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54083791430152550232007-10-22T21:55:00.000-07:002007-10-22T21:55:00.000-07:00Let's see, I got Clinton and Carter mixed up yeste...Let's see, I got Clinton and Carter mixed up yesterday, Watson and Wilson today. Maybe there's a pattern here?Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32124708974006577762007-10-22T20:36:00.000-07:002007-10-22T20:36:00.000-07:00The Orwellianism of this episode is sickening. The...The Orwellianism of this episode is sickening. The thought totalitarians are showing their true colors. So much for academic freedom....<BR/><BR/>From the <A HREF="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,,2195980,00.html" REL="nofollow">Observer</A>: <I>As to Watson's own prospects today, those can only be described as unpromising. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's campus is set in rolling wooded hills on the north shore of Long Island, dotted with buildings set amid the trees turning bright orange and red as autumn sets in.<BR/><BR/>Executives there have already revealed just how seriously they are taking the Watson case and on Friday triggered <B>a compete PR lockdown at the campus: students and staff were warned not to talk to journalists, security guards were on the lookout for unannounced reporters and interlopers were picked up and taken to the campus PR department.</B></I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88493002988881054502007-10-22T17:54:00.000-07:002007-10-22T17:54:00.000-07:00Gould and Wilson? Nope.Gould was an unregenerate ...Gould and Wilson? Nope.<BR/><BR/>Gould was an unregenerate NYC Marxist. To my knowledge he never buried the hatchet with anyone who did not support party line.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00444521661983167234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59619366102668480362007-10-22T17:19:00.000-07:002007-10-22T17:19:00.000-07:00If all that exists is matter in motion, than power...<I>If all that exists is matter in motion, than power is more important than truth. His little slip threatened the interests of the powerful and they retaliated. Now that he has tasted the fruits of his own philosophy, perhaps he will re-think his premises. It might even make a Christian of him!</I><BR/>I don't see the connection. They would have gone after even if he'd been a Christian. Christ spoke truth to power and still got crucified (literally in His case). <BR/><BR/> In fact, you could argue that, in speaking truth to power, Watson put others' interests ahead of his own, which would be the Christlike thing to do. (I think he was just a garrulous (if brilliant) old coot.) Atheists are more than capable of behaving in altruism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2090441786172840162007-10-22T17:18:00.000-07:002007-10-22T17:18:00.000-07:00The seventies were a good decade for feuding baseb...The seventies were a good decade for feuding baseball teams (not only the Yankees but the A's earlier in the decade), but the 1990s Yankees seemed to partake more of the pld Dodger philosophy. You never heard about Jeter or Rivera or Williams not getting along with anybody, although I'm sure there was some hidden conflict. In the 2000s, when some open conflict did begin to appear, the World Series wins came to an end.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38712525519952067272007-10-22T17:10:00.000-07:002007-10-22T17:10:00.000-07:00Steve, Watson and Wilson's names are so similar th...Steve, Watson and Wilson's names are so similar that you contrasted one scientist with himself.<BR/><BR/>dutch boy, I don't see how your conclusion follows from your premise in the second sentence. Perhaps you don't understand the difference between modernism and post-modernism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43604987854928553632007-10-22T16:48:00.000-07:002007-10-22T16:48:00.000-07:00To be honest, I'm rather glad that Watson was a ph...To be honest, I'm rather glad that Watson was a philistine of a scientist enough to call traditional biology "stamp-collecting." In an ecology class in high school, my teacher noted my strong ability to organize and lead my team, but my relative inability to recognize different forms of greenery.<BR/><BR/>"They're all just plants to me."<BR/><BR/>Watson's claims about race and IQ have wrecked his reputation, but I also think that the fact that one of the biggest biologists of our time, if not for the ages, went forth to make statements like that raised a lot of eyebrows. A friend of mine, who has traditionally held no knowledge of the topic, told me how shocked he was.<BR/><BR/>In the coming years, more and more information will bring to light that perhaps race differences have genetic origins that extend into the mental realms. Let it pass, and don't rub it in people's faces. For those of us already acquainted with the data, it's up to us to show that acknowledging genetics doesn't mean we will become Nazis, or will be forced to return to the days of Jim Crow.<BR/><BR/>We can have a liberty-loving, democratic society that judges people as individuals, even if the races are equal but not the same. To reach that would be the ultimate triumph of freedom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76319749810336580532007-10-22T16:32:00.000-07:002007-10-22T16:32:00.000-07:00in a turf war between the old organismic biologist...<I><BR/>in a turf war between the old organismic biologists like Wilson and the new molecular biologists like Wilson over faculty hiring<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>Which Wilson is which?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52035772262364523932007-10-22T15:27:00.000-07:002007-10-22T15:27:00.000-07:00http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3081...http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3081838.ece<BR/><BR/>People with big heads have higher intelligence<BR/> <BR/>By Roger Dobson<BR/> <BR/>Published: 21 October 2007<BR/> <BR/>New scientific research proves that people with big heads have higher than average intelligence.<BR/><BR/>Edinburgh University researchers, using MRI scans and IQ tests on 48 volunteers, discovered that the larger the head, and therefore the brain, the greater the IQ. A person with a brain of 1,600cc has an IQ of around 125.<BR/><BR/>Dr Alasdair MacLullich of the university's Queen's Medical Research Institute said: "As a general rule, the larger the dimensions of front to back and side to side, the greater the IQ, although, of course, there will be exceptions.''<BR/><BR/>Examples of gifted people with larger heads include the broadcaster Emily Maitlis, who speaks fluent French, Italian and Spanish but insists her Mandarin Chinese is "rubbish".<BR/><BR/>Among exceptions is satirist and Private Eye editor Ian Hislop whose head size is relatively modest but who is renowned for his fierce intellect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10956850158759403502007-10-22T15:03:00.000-07:002007-10-22T15:03:00.000-07:00We knew that pun was coming.We knew that pun was coming.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52233769753109934382007-10-22T14:43:00.000-07:002007-10-22T14:43:00.000-07:00Dr. Watson's problem is elementary. He is a brilli...Dr. Watson's problem is elementary. He is a brilliant scientist but a horrible philosopher (a scientific reductionist). If all that exists is matter in motion, than power is more important than truth. His little slip threatened the interests of the powerful and they retaliated. Now that he has tasted the fruits of his own philosophy, perhaps he will re-think his premises. It might even make a Christian of him!Dutch Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02687679491743923216noreply@blogger.com