Vaccine transhumanism
I for one welcome our new vaccines. I think the transhumanist angle to this has not been properly spelled out, so let's give it a shot. Humans come with two…
That 2005 study on IQ and marriage by sex
This study keeps getting attention. This otherwise alright Quillette piece: Mate Selection for Modernity Studies using data from classic online dating websites and speed-dating both found that men exhibited less…
Polygenic euphemisms
As every reader knows, whenever powers that be come up with a new euphemism for something, this works, and the previous meanings and associations are quickly forgotten. That's why we...…
Hiding sex differences: not a myth
Russell Warne has a new post: Implications of average group differences for the design of intelligence tests He writes: The implication is that if test creators can force an average…
COVID vaccine and fertility: no need to worry (June 14th 2021)
I know some people are who are into conspiratorial thinking about COVID vaccines. Bill Gates trying to decrease your fertility stuff. Anyway, so I did the science thing, that is,…
Book review: The Fight for our National Intelligence (Raymond Cattell)
Raymond Cattell was one of the early 1900s eminent psychologists. Like Meehl, he had a philosophical bent with some odd ideas in ethics. That ended up getting him into trouble…
Book review: Science Wars: Politics, Gender, and Race (Anthony Walsh)
This is a short book summarizing human biodiversity stuff. Since it's from 2013, it doesn't cover the latest tranny-mania, but otherwise it covers a lot of ground. Acknowledgements sets the…
Book reviews: Apocalypse Never (Michael Shellenberger) and Unsettled (Steven E. Koonin)
So I've gone back to my old habit of binge reading on mostly unrelated topics to my main work in the genetics-social science cluster. Climate science is a long running…
New paper out: Intelligence and General Psychopathology in the Vietnam Experience Study: A Closer Look
Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Nyborg, H. (2021). Intelligence and General Psychopathology in the Vietnam Experience Study: A Closer Look. Mankind Quarterly, 61(4). https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2021.61.4.2 Prior research has indicated that one…
Fluoride, good for your teeth, not bad for your brain
Many countries add fluoride to the drinking water in the belief this will improve dental health. As with anything else public health, some people think this is a grave mistake.…
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