The Undark race science summary
For months, some journalist called Ashley Smart has been emailing me for quotes for some upcoming hit piece. E.g., back form January: Hi Emil, I'm a journalist with Undark Magazine, and…
Hutus and Tutsis and genetics
My book review of Michael Ryan's book briefly covered this topic but due to popular interest, here is a full post. Famously, there was a genocide in Rwanda in the…
Michael Ryan’s The Genetics of Political Behavior (2021)
The book is described as: In this unique amalgam of neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary psychology, Ryan argues that leftists and rightists are biologically distinct versions of the human species that…
How many human genomes do we need for accurate genetic prediction models?
In a recent thread on X, I added: Why do we need so much genetic data? Well, there are 3B positions in the genome, about 1% of them vary (30M).…
Explaining HIV’s effect on life expectancy in Africa
There's this figure floating on Twitter: Can anyone explain why insanely HIV rates in southern Africa have absolutely no impact on life expectancy? Botswana has 10X the rate of HIV…
Are right-wingers more accepting of lying?
Richard Hanania likes to emphasize how right-wingers (in the USA) are more accepting of lying, pointing to grievous examples from Trump, Musk, the usual scams and low quality ads on…
Special issue of Swiss magazine Schweizer Monat about intelligence
The Swiss libertarian (classical liberal) leaning magazine Schweizer Monat ('Swiss monthly') has a new issue out focused on intelligence. For a magazine, it has a quite impressive roster of authors,…
The US congress is also an intelligence meritocracy
S. Lant had a good idea over on Twitter: Fellow poaster Jerome Sneed Democrat had a second good idea: There was that IQ study that showed that Episcopalians were the…
What is the average IQ of holocaust deniers?
I made a troll poll on Twitter, and it's going well. 100s of those people showed up in the replies to insult me or provide stupid arguments for why it…
Large scale remigration is possible
In Western countries there is a broad sentiment that one cannot really just expel a bunch of foreigners. Sometimes, this is just a legal claim that this would not currently…