Re: sci.bio.evolution mailing list

On 29 oct, 21:52, "John W Edser" <ed...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
DK: wrote:-
.... the research on the subject is actively suppressed
and this is preventing us from knowing whether they are or are
not true. E.g., every single researcher among those who can be called
"hereditarians" (those that take position, like Watson did, that there
are genetics-limited differences in intelligence bewteen different
ethnic groups) is labeled racist, ostracized and, if not fired, is
unable to ever get federal funding like other researchers do.

JE:-
The cost of throwing out falsification in order to protect misused,
oversimplified, uncorrected models of what race and intelligence may be will
always be greater than the gains (as Watson has had to experience
personally). All he needed to do was provide a falsifiable theory of both to
maintain his position as one of the most eminent scientists of the era. To
be able to do that for race Watson would of had to define race as _gene
group centric_ and NOT just _gene centric_. The reason the critical
difference between these two self exclusive concepts has always been evaded
is because a discussion of either must inevitably highlight the misuse of
mathematically based models within evolutionary science (which provided this
unhappy situation in the first place). I remain stunned and amazed at the
stupidly model misuse has precipitated within evolutionary theory.

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

ed...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


I see, you mean James D. Watson.

I see, but to find a meaninful group of genes that would be used as an
objective measure of race is a very risky proposal. We do not know
yet enough genetics for this task. Genetics is a field of enormous
complexity to define a race. The most probably outcome is that the
concept of race would be too wide and vague to encapsulate into a
workable definition.
Leopoldo


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