"John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> painstakingly noted:
>> It is, of course, relationships between brain size/IQ and sex
>> and race which, understandably, arouse the most anxiety. Some
>> critics have even suggested a social taboo on discussion and
>> research in these fields. That would run counter to the entire
>> tradition of scientific inquiry.
>>>>>> You appear to have come up against the "social taboo" he mentions.
>> This is the type of research that Gloria Steinem and Jesse Jackson
>> want prohibited.
>>>What's truly amazing in this Constitutional republic is that we've even
>permitted communists/feminists like Gloria Steinem and Jese Jackson to not
>just direct such research, but to tell us what we can and can't discuss in
>public forums and universities.
I don't see what's so amazing about it. Universities have always
walked a thin line between what they perceived to be true and what was
politically correct at the time.
The truth has always come out in the end, regardless of how
uncomfortable it makes some people feel. It just takes time.
>THAT is hard to understand. The last thing we need is dedictated communists
>like them flagrantly banning free speech. And of course the real reason they
>even try is because they already know (or at least sense) what the TRUTH is,
>don't they?
I don't think it's hard to understand. Most people are prepared to
suppress truth if it contradicts what they perceive as a "greater
truth".
For example, somebody who holds that all people are equal in all ways
has difficulty in accepting the vast differences in achievement
between groups. These differences have to be explained away as the
result of oppression, bad diet, the weather and so on.
Taking the specific instance of brain size, when it was known only
that men's brains were larger than women's brains we were told by
egalitarians that it was the number of brain cells that counted and
that the cells in a man's brain were more spread out than in a woman's
brain. The total number of cells was still the same and that was what
mattered in intelligence.
Now that we know that men have more brain cells than women, we're told
that the total number of brain cells makes no difference, it's
something else that causes intelligence.
