Scott Alexander on the isolated demand for moral rigor and genetics
It appears this comment was deleted and I've checked the archive sites, and none of them appear to have just the right time in between him posting it and it…
“a kind of social paranoia, a belief that mysterious, hostile forces are operating to cause inequalities in educational and occupational performance, despite all apparent efforts to eliminate prejudice and discrimination”
Quoting from Arthur Jensen's book Educability and group differences (1973). He was being criticized for postulating genetic causes, which some critics think would cause great social harm if they were…
Writings on ethics and politics of race and intelligence research
Sometimes people argue that one shouldn't even be allowed to research race and intelligence causes. I'm sometimes asked directly why I choose to study this topic. Well, I could outline…
Why is Eric Turkheimer so unreasonable about race and intelligence?
Eric Turkheimer is by many counts a good scientist. He has about 11.6k citations on Google Scholar, 6.3 since 2013 (i.e. last 5 years). He is prominent enough that he…
Review: The Censor’s Hand (Carl E. Schneider)
Schneider, C. (2015). The censor’s hand: the misregulation of human-subject research. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Medical and social progress depend on research with human subjects. When that research is…
Medical geneticists on PGD for non-medical purposes
Quoted from Textbook of Human Reproductive Genetics, chapter 13: PGD within the“autonomy model” According to what may be called the “autonomy model,” prospective parents are free to use PGD in…
Review: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Jonathan Haidt)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind I had heard good things about this book, sort of. It has been cited a lot. Enough that I would be wiling to read it, given that the author…
Review: Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (Joshua D. Greene)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707599-moral-tribes http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=08a6526a7a706c4ae5f5aa7543ffc702 Years ago when i used to study filosofy, i came across Joshua's website. On the site i found his phd thesis which i read. It is probably the…
Pyrrho on selfishness
I was looking for something else.. and found this instead... From here: http://able2know.org/topic/151812-1 - LittleMathYou I think a 9 year old killing himself is a good representation of suicide as…
Apparently, the feel good veganism is bad for… poor countries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/vegans-stomach-unpalatable-truth-quinoa