It's remarkable that compared to #NYTimes who reads like a notebook of evolution denier Lysenko, Stalin's favored "scientist", #AmericanReneissance reads like a peer reviewed science journal as for content, arguments, & accuracy in #HBD (human biodiversity) related content (!).
Having read tens of AmRen articles, I've not discovered pure racisim. It's been scientifically informed, utilitarian & logical albeit at times blunt population level analysis & worry about the West's outgroup favoritism - not discrimination against any given individual.
I'm finding their human biodiversity articles - many written by true giants in the fields of relevant sciences - and book reviews very high quality. They DO NOT DISTORT UNDERLYING SCIENCE. That's most important, regardless of their ideas of what to do based on those common facts.
P.S. but this steel manning is what to expect from the right whereas straw manning & distortions are to be expected from the left. There's a striking difference in the levels of honor, dignity, & sense of fairness b/w these culture war sides. (I belong to neither one)
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Arthur R. Jensen on Eysenck (hanseysenck.com by @KirkegaardEmil):
“Eysenck was a kind of genius...or at least a person of very unusual talents, and the only person of that unusual caliber that I have come across in the field of psychology."
"Still, Prof. Jensen did not abandon his conventional beliefs in the power of environment to raise or lower intelligence, and went on to publish 30 papers and build a non-controversial reputation before he finally concluded that Eysenck and Burt were right."
"In 1969 he shocked the country with his famous Harvard Educational Review article, “How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?” This 123-page paper, which demolished the view that proper instruction could raise children’s IQs, may have been the most sensational..."
"That their [fraternal twins who grew up together] IQ scores...differ significantly more than those of identical twins who didn’t even grow up in the same family suggests that heredity is more important than environment in determining IQ."
"studies have shown that the IQs of adopted children are closer to those of their biological parents than to those of their foster parents...in a family whose children are all adopted, there will be a greater variation in IQ than in a family whose children are all biological."
"Test data show that for every social and economic class, if a son has a higher IQ than his father he is likely to move up and if his IQ is lower he is likely to move down. IQ thus appears to affect social class more than the reverse."
"deaf children get low scores on verbal intelligence tests. However, they get normal scores on non-verbal tests and by the time they are adults they have overcome most of the verbal deficit."
"children with catastrophic motor disabilities, who lead lives that are severely restricted by any definition, apparently have higher tested intelligence levels than blacks who are not physically handicapped."
"Perhaps the greatest direct assault on the environmentalist view comes from biology and physiology. As early as the 1960s, it was discovered that many mental illnesses are best treated with drugs. This instantly invalidated convoluted psychoanalytic theories about the..."
"But can that African 70 average IQ be real? It is indeed extremely low, the lowest found in any comparable area. This has caused many to dismiss the finding.
I know that the figure is not a fluke, however, because for the last six years I have..."
"...collected African IQ data on hundreds of students at the prestigious University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. The average IQ for these African students turns out to be 84. Assuming they score 15 points above the general average, as university students.."
"...of any group typically do, then an average African IQ of 70 is implied—exactly what the direct measurements show."
"An IQ of 70 suggests mental retardation—at least it would in the White populations of Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. There it would..."
Amazon has removed this interesting book as part of their social "justice" campaign so I'll be quoting it here.
"Fuerle’s Erectus Walks Among Us is another example of race-realist scholarship that could not have found a place in today’s mainstream."
"Erectus Walks Among Us is several books in one, all written from a firmly race-realist perspective. It is a primer on evolution and genetics, a catalog of how populations differ, an introduction to sociobiology and the concept of genetic interests, and a plea for white survival"
"Mr. Fuerle is not a paleoanthropologist — he is a polymath with degrees in math, law, economics, physics and chemistry — but this may be an advantage. He does not share the anti-racist prejudices so common among social scientists, and he has written a clear and engaging book..."
Imagine environmental & cultural factors explained the black:white intelligence difference. It would be magical & not follow any internal logic. Why would blacks & whites matched for IQ have a mean 0.5 SD dif. in visuospatial IQ?
Or:
"When you compare black and white mean scores on a battery of subtests, you do not find a uniform set of differences; nor do you find a random assortment. The size of the difference varies systematically by type of subtest."
"Some of the largest differences are found on subtests that have little or no cultural content, such as ones based on abstract designs."
Or:
"Digits-backward is much more g-loaded than digits-forward. Try it yourself and you will see why. Digits-forward is a straightforward..."