tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post7774929922508921625..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: The Fatal Fallacies and Foibles of RaceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-64404058606789324232013-06-22T10:48:16.839-04:002013-06-22T10:48:16.839-04:00Ed, you state that the Islamic civilization is &qu...Ed, you state that the Islamic civilization is "culture free" and that it's goal is the destruction of Western Culture. I agree, and would go further. The historical evidence demonstrates that in all of its conquests Islam has destroyed every culture-primitive or civilized- that it conquers. It erases the history, thought, and the associated material culture, treating it as ifit had never been. There have been few exceptions to this practice, such as certain caliphates in Spain, and with a brief flowering of scholarship in the Middle East early on in the existence of Islam, but these were ruthlessly put down by a fundamentalist and minimalist movement within Islam, the adherents of which argued that if Mohammed didn't have it or know it, such arts and sciences were unnecessary to Muslims.Elisheva Hannah Levinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16061377724926154037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-87064026318172658882013-06-17T21:55:08.064-04:002013-06-17T21:55:08.064-04:00I believe Harry Binswanger has said that even with...<i>I believe Harry Binswanger has said that even within group hereditarian conclusions about IQ can't be true because they would hurt people's self esteem.</i><br /><br />Binswanger is just chock full of stuff like this. He does not represent a fearless quest for truth. He speaks as one who is defending ideological commitments from a psychological position of fear. madmaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14375140131881725965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-12230460262371866992013-06-15T10:25:42.262-04:002013-06-15T10:25:42.262-04:00But mainstream Objectivism at large is guilty of t...<i>But mainstream Objectivism at large is guilty of the same type of intimidation tactics used against any heredity claims. In that way they are just like Leftists.</i><br /><br />I believe Harry Binswanger has said that even within group hereditarian conclusions about IQ can't be true because they would hurt people's self esteem. Even leftist psychologists (such as R.A. Nisbett) admit that intelligence is at least 50% inherited. This puts Binswanger on the radical left.Neil Parillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11074901258306769278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-47012144972310625662013-06-14T18:30:01.231-04:002013-06-14T18:30:01.231-04:00I was saddened to see a scholar of Sowell's ca...<i>I was saddened to see a scholar of Sowell's caliber rely on the discredited Eyferth study concerning the IQs of German childred fathered by black US soldiers.</i><br /><br />Me too. Charles Murray shredded that one. Sowell did not address the best of the hereditarian arguments as you say. I wish he would. <br /><br />I really have no horse in this argument. Whatever the science is, it is. But too often opposition to the heredity based claims are not motivated by any search for the truth, but by fear. I'm not saying that of Sowell. And certainly not Ed Cline. But mainstream Objectivism at large is guilty of the same type of intimidation tactics used against any heredity claims. In that way they are just like Leftists. They say they are pro-science. But for only those findings that they like. That's going to be a problem if science should end up proving a host of unpleasant things.madmaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14375140131881725965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-48140944206548406092013-06-14T08:22:12.465-04:002013-06-14T08:22:12.465-04:00I like Tom Sowell and plan on reading this book. ...I like Tom Sowell and plan on reading this book. (I skimmed some of it on amazon.)<br /><br />Sowell writes, "correlation is not causation." But, as I'm sure Sowell knows, the hereditarian argument for racial differences isn't based on just correlation.<br /><br />The claim is that black IQs regress to a lower mean than whites, black children adopted into white homes have IQs equal to that of the general black population, among other things. Whether these arguments are good or bad I don't know, but I don't get the impression that Sowell is dealing with the better arguments.<br /><br />From what I can tell, Sowell doesn't mention the later work of Lynn, Jensen and Rushton.<br /><br />I was saddened to see a scholar of Sowell's caliber rely on the discredited Eyferth study concerning the IQs of German childred fathered by black US soldiers.Neil Parillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11074901258306769278noreply@blogger.com