pretending that there's a legitimate, good faith, reasonable-people-can-disagree debate about "race & IQ" is one of the most obvious giveaways. from January 20

pretending that there's a legitimate, good faith, reasonable-people-can-disagree debate about "race & IQ" is one of the most obvious giveaways. from January 2025 [0]: > Richard Lynn was a scientist who infamously tried to estimate the average IQ of every country. a bit of additional context from Wikipedia [1]: > Richard Lynn was a controversial English psychologist and self-described "scientific racist" who advocated for a genetic relationship between race and intelligence. He was the editor-in-chief of Mankind Quarterly, a white supremacist journal. he claims that Lynn's work is still "hotly debated" and links to an article in "Aporia Magazine" which is published by the "Human Diversity Foundation" [2]: > The Human Diversity Foundation (HDF) is a far-right company founded in 2022 to publish "race science" through the Aporia Magazine and Mankind Quarterly. It also publishes Edward Dutton's The Jolly Heretic podcast. Key persons of the HDF including its founder support remigration and white nationalism. the role that Alexander plays reminds me of the attempts in the early 2000s to "teach the controversy" [3] about evolution vs. creationism. there is no actual scientific debate, but people with a political axe to grind want to shift the Overton window and give the impression that there is one. 0: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-to-stop-worrying-and-learn-to https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-to-stop-worrying-and-le... 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Diversity_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Diversity_Foundation 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach_the_Controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach_the_Controversy