I think your comment is a good example of why talking about intelligence is hard. Note that nobody here advocated forced sterilizations (or killing off ugly ba

I think your comment is a good example of why talking about intelligence is hard. Note that nobody here advocated forced sterilizations (or killing off ugly babies). All we said is that it's pretty much settled that intelligence is inheritable. PS I will contend one point - and that is whether Jews were marked for mass sterilization. That is false. Jews were marked by Nazis for extermination. However - people who advocated eugenics in other countries (like US or the UK) had no issues with Jews (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States). If anything, Jews (or more precisely Ashkenazi) are a poster child for eugenics - since really that's what they went through in the middle ages, which is used to explain their enormous achievement (see http://www.economist.com/node/4032638 http://www.economist.com/node/4032638)