tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post1306692923827407084..comments2024-01-04T07:21:18.243-05:00Comments on John In Carolina: Free Speech? Not for AllUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-15830488377760736672007-10-27T12:14:00.000-04:002007-10-27T12:14:00.000-04:00john,I've been reading to much lately.Among other ...john,<BR/>I've been reading to much lately.Among other things,I read a blog page at Daily Kos about Watson.He's been savaged as riding on Crick's coat tails,not very bright,arrogant,out of his field and a myriad of other things.Carl Sagan once remarked we are no more evolutionarily advanced than the people of the Dark Ages who would stone witches and I think this proves it.<BR/> Ages ago,I read "The Bell Curve"-at least most of it.I didn't find ti sensational ,but was discouraged.I,and I think many of my collegues feel there is a difference in average intellect of races.(I forgot,the professor emeritus who heqaded the attck on Watsondisputed both the existence of race and that intelligence could be measured.)I don't feel this is a pre judging but rather a judging of performance.In anyevent,it's immaterial as long as one judges individuals as such.This is the Achilles heel of affirmative action.By mandating that certain groups be proportionately represented in ceetain circles,it assures a certain porion will be under or poorly performing.<BR/><BR/>I've remarked on line the Left is far more frightened of discussions of 'IQ' than the right is of creationism.I will close by quoting two famous persons re' the mob of silencers. First is G.Galelei,"Yet it still moves."<BR/>And then B.Bunny,"What a maroon."<BR/> Best,CorwinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com