New paper out: Admixture in Argentina (with John Fuerst)

We have a new big paper out: Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Fuerst, J. (2017). Admixture in Argentina. Mankind Quarterly, 57(4). Retrieved from http://mankindquarterly.org/archive/issue/57-4/4 Abstract Analyses of the relationships between…

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The race and intelligence question is solvable

In reply to: http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/what-both-the-left-and-right-get-wrong-about-race http://www.geneticshumanagency.org/gha/origin-of-race-differences-in-intelligence-is-not-a-scientific-question/ There's a new kind of 'environmentalist' (rather, anti-hereditarian) defense in town, or at least, one that's not commonly seen. It goes like this: This is…

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Science and politics: USA edition

One can find quite a lot of popular articles on the topic: https://newrepublic.com/article/139700/democrats-party-science-not-really http://reason.com/reasontv/2016/07/15/are-republicans-or-democrats-more-anti-s https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/apr/28/can-the-republican-party-solve-its-science-denial-problem http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/10/04/the-politics-of-climate/ http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/why-republicans-still-reject-the-science-of-global-warming-w448023 http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/democrats-have-a-problem-with-science-too-107270 https://www.city-journal.org/html/real-war-science-14782.html http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/left-science-gmo-vaccines with wildly diverging conclusions. So what is true? It at…

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