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Why is Charles Murray's white nationalist book so intriguing to some people? The man preaches Nazi-style eugenics for Pete's sake: Southern Poverty Law Center: "Charles Murray has become one of the most influential social scientists in America, using racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority..." https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extrem
Bruce Watson The book gets its power from its heft, its long list of sources, its statistics. Few of us know enough to argue this. But the experts did and they tra…moreThe book gets its power from its heft, its long list of sources, its statistics. Few of us know enough to argue this. But the experts did and they trashed the book. Stephen Jay Gould’s “Mismeasure of Man” had already refuted everything the Bell Curve said. Gould called the Bell Curve “outdated Social Darwinism,” and point-by-point revealed its shoddy science. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/cour...(less)
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