[Balding_Eagle]

BTTT

[Excellence]

Well, that was interesting.

[Ohioan]

This is indeed a very sad event. I received a copy of the abbreviated edition of the work to which you refer, and have since received the unabridged edition, which is a compellingly organized presentation of the massive evidence that Prof. Rushton assembled. As one who is familiar with some of the controversy in this field, I can enthusiastically recommend Race, Evolution & Behavior.

Thank you for posting this information.

For a perspective on the sort of "scientists," who have tried to suppress the work of men like Prof. Rushton, see Myths & Myth Makers In American "Higher" Education. They are not altruists, in any sense--only poseurs, denying reality.

William Flax

[SharpRightTurn]

Great article. Thanks for posting. I always enjoyed reading Rushton’s articles. And you know that anyone like Rushton who catches the flak that he caught from uber-leftist academics was on to something.

[null and void]

Unlike Galileo, he never recanted.

Neither did Giordano Bruno...

[Ohioan]

Bump

[driftless2]

I don't believe in inferior "races" because I don't believe in the concept of race. But obviously there's no way different groups of people on different parts of the earth far removed from each other can have the exact same mental and physical capabilities. I'm euro-Caucasion whatever that means, but on average people from the far-east do consistently better in certain areas of mental exertion than my ethnic group ...namely math and science.

That doesn't mean I think people from east-asia are superior to people of my ethnicity, it just means that in this moment of time, their mental capabilities in certain areas on average are superior to my ethnic group. Why they are has yet to be explained. But to deny obvious differences in physical and mental capabilities is stupidly exceeding the present limits of political correctness.

[canuck_conservative]

“The book [Race, Evolution & Behavior] argues that Mongoloids, on average, are at one end of a continuum, that Negroids, on average, are at the opposite end of that continuum, and that Caucasoids rank in between Mongoloids and Negroids, but closer to Mongoloids. His continuum includes both external physical characteristics and personality traits.

Citing genetic research by Cavalli-Sforza, the African Eve hypothesis, and the out of Africa theory, Rushton writes that Negroids branched off first (200,000 years ago, Caucasoids second 110,000 years ago, and Mongoloids last 41,000 years ago), arguing that throughout all of evolution, more ancient forms of life (i.e. plants, bacteria, reptiles) are less evolved than more recent forms of life (i.e. mammals, primates, humans) and that the much smaller variation in the races is consistent with this trend. “One theoretical possibility,” said Rushton “is that evolution is progressive and that some populations are more advanced than others”. Rushton argues that this evolutionary history correlates with, and is responsible for, a consistent global racial pattern which explains many variables such as worldwide crime statistics or the global distribution of AIDS.”

(more at Wikipedia)

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Unlike Galileo, he never recanted.

Galileoo recanted for a number of reasons: he couldn't prove his hypothesis, he had remorse for breaking his agreement with Pope Urban VIII and he was afraid that the protestants who were calling for his head would succeed where they had failed with Johannes Kepler at Tubingen.