Amy Harmon articles update
Amy Harmon reports that in response to her previous article, a genetics organization has boldly and courageously denounced white supremacy.
Amy Harmon follow-up article
Amy Harmon has a strange follow-up to her front-page article.
It’s hard to tell what she really believes, and what she thinks she needs to say in order to be a good liberal. Reading between the lines, scientists who study genetics know that they would be fired from their jobs for saying anything that’s too politically incorrect, and many are probably trying to obfuscate rather than clarify, and Harmon goes along with it.
But here’s an important admission:
But another reason some scientists avoid engaging on this topic, I came to understand, was that they do not have definitive answers about whether there are average differences in biological traits across populations. … What’s more, some believe substantial differences will be found.
Probably, more scientists, deep down, believe that substantial differences between races will be found, but they can’t say it because of political correctness.
I continue to be confident that with genetic sequencing of large numbers of people, combined with computer artificial intelligence to analyze the data in ways that are a lot more complex than just saying that a particular SNP gives a person +0.5 IQ points, the mystery of how DNA affects our behavior and intelligence will be figured out.
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Meanwhile, a new study of twins from the UK shows that “genetic factors explained 57% of the differences in A-level exam results and 46% of the difference in achievement at university. They also found genetics accounted for 51% of the difference in whether young people chose to go to university and 57% of the difference in the quality of the chosen university.” (I don’t know what “A-level exams” are, so I don’t know if they are like the SAT which has a very high correlation with inherent biological ability, or more more like grades on classroom tests which are comparatively more influenced by the student’s non-biological learned attitudes about how much they should study for the test.)
It’s only a matter of time before we discover the genetic sequences that are causing these effects and we are able to predict a person’s IQ based on their genetic sequence.
The Kelly-Bolton argument
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/politics/john-kelly-john-bolton-immigration/index.html
I think there’s some very important information in here. Trump is mad that more isn’t being done to curb illegal border crossings. Kelly appears to be an immigration dove. Maybe Kelly wrote the anonymous op-ed? (No, I don’t think so, the op-ed feels to me like something only someone steeped in Republican talking points would write.)
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In other news, it’s pretty suspicious that one of the guys who allegedly killed Khashoggi died in a car “accident.”
Comment on Amy Harmon article in the NY Times
I know for a fact that at some time in the past she read at least a few posts on my blog.
Regarding the issue at hand, I’m just going to restate what I’ve written plenty of times before. Before DNA sequencing was available, there was plenty of evidence that intelligence is a genetically inherited trait, and furthermore that different races have different average levels of inherited intelligence. The late Arthur Jensen’s books are a great source of information.
Many years ago, when I wrote about this on internet forums, I was mocked by leftists who wrote things like ‘show me these “genes”‘ with “genes” in scare quotes.
Well now, actual genes have been identified! Or more accurately, specific locations on genes that correlate with intelligence. It’s only a matter of time until we can verify through DNA analysis that those races we assume are genetically less intelligent* really are that way. (Although I am sure that time will be pushed out further into the future than required by the available technology because people don’t want to know the answer.)
*On average. For example, Barrack Obama is way more intelligent than the average white person, despite being 50% Kenyan.
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This is my quick explanation of the meaning of intelligence. (To rebut those who want to obfuscate something that’s simple.)
Elizabeth Warren insults Native Americans
The NY Times reports that Native Americans are pissed at Elizabeth Warren for “privileging nonindigenous definitions of being indigenous.”
I can’t say I understand that sentence, but it’s funny when the people pushing political correctness can’t follow their own rules. It’s time for Warren to step down and let someone more woke take her place.
Investing in Saudi Arabia
The question to ask isn’t why companies are suddenly pulling out.
I say, the question is why did anyone want to invest there in the first place? Saudi Arabia is an Islamic revolution waiting to happen. (Which would be much worse for Middle East stability than the King killing an occasional journalist.)
Is J.C. Penney next?
Their stock price (JCP) peaked above 80 in 2007, but yesterday it closed at $1.56. It didn’t get any boost from the Sears bankruptcy, just the opposite, even though there have been some news articles predicting a small increase in same-store sales from Sears customers. The company has been losing money since 2014. Stuck in long-term leases at failing malls.
I think that without anchor stores, mall traffic declines, and therefore the liquidation of Sears could ironically hurt other stores based at the same mall.
Sears, Kmart bankruptcy
Who shops at Sears? I think it’s brand name that resonates with people over the age of 60, which is a declining market.
And who shops at Kmart instead of Walmart or Target? No one I can think of. Except that there’s a ratty gross Kmart at Penn Station that I buy stuff at from time-to-time because it’s there. Anything they sell at Duane Reade you can get at the Kmart at Penn Station for less money. Unfortunately, I guess this means it won’t be there for much longer.
Transgender “woman” wins bicycle championship
A biological male who identifies as a transgender woman won a women’s world championship cycling event Sunday in California.
Rachel McKinnon, an assistant professor of philosophy at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, won the women’s 35-39 age bracket at the 2018 UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championships in Los Angeles.
If we, as a society, continue down this path, then in the future, women’s sports will be dominated by transgenders. Women who were actually born women with two X chromosomes will give up on sports because they won’t be able to compete.
New York Times admits that Khashoggi is Muslim Brotherhood
Several of his friends say that early on Mr. Khashoggi also joined the Muslim Brotherhood.
Although he later stopped attending meetings of the Brotherhood, he remained conversant in its conservative, Islamist and often anti-Western rhetoric, which he could deploy or hide depending on whom he was seeking to befriend.
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Many of Mr. Khashoggi’s friends say that throughout his career of service to the monarchy, he hid his personal leanings in favor of both electoral democracy and Muslim Brotherhood-style political Islam.
Remember, the goal of the Muslim Brotherhood is “The introduction of the Islamic Shari`ah as the basis controlling the affairs of state and society.”
This is not a quote from some right-wing op-ed, this is a quote from the Muslim Brotherhood’s own English-language website.
