Bother anyone else that this book on genetics and race
has been debunked by so many experts (perhaps a record number for a major book) and called "racist" by some--and the author is a former longtime
NYT science writer, Nicholas Wade? The
Times trusted this guy with journalism on an almost weekly basis?
They write: "Wade juxtaposes an incomplete and inaccurate account of
our research on human genetic differences with speculation that recent
natural selection has led to worldwide differences in I.Q. test results,
political institutions and economic development. We reject Wade’s
implication that our findings substantiate his guesswork. They do not."
If
there's been a more thorough repudiation of a responsible publisher's
nonfiction work by experts in its field in recent years, we haven't seen
it. (The publisher is Penguin Press.)
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