so i guess that's why the entire consonant of africa was smart enough to know they didn't need to invent the wheel... or maybe because they knew some other race would invent it for them?
Posted on 01/12/2019 5:23:13 AM PST by reaganaut1
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory revoked the honorary titles held by its longtime leader James D. Watson on Friday, describing as “unsubstantiated and reckless” his recent remarks about genetic differences in intelligence among racial groups.
Dr. Watson, one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, had apologized after making similar comments to a British newspaper in 2007. At the time, he was forced to retire from his job as chancellor at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island, but he has retained his office there, as well as the titles of chancellor emeritus, Oliver R. Grace professor emeritus and honorary trustee. The graduate school of biological sciences at the research center is named for Dr. Watson, and the laboratory held a 90th birthday party for him last spring.
For the past decade the laboratory, like much of the scientific community, has engaged in a delicate balancing act with regard to Dr. Watson: holding him at arm’s length for reinforcing unfounded racial stereotypes, while still honoring him for his contributions to science. Dr. Watson, with Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin, helped discover the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, and he went on to help to shape the subsequent revolution in molecular biology.
But his recent comments “effectively reverse the written apology and retraction Dr. Watson made in 2007,” and “require the severing of any remaining vestiges of his involvement,” Cold Spring Harbor’s chief executive, Bruce Stillman, and its board of trustees chairwoman, Marilyn Simons, said in a statement.
[...] In the film, Dr. Watson references a view that average I.Q. differences between blacks and whites reflect underlying genetic differences shaped by natural selection.
But leading geneticists say that even modern DNA studies are currently unable to validate such hypotheses about differences between human populations.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“This is stupid. I am above average intelligence and I have known many blacks who are more intelligent than me.”
What does that have to do with averages, or a distribution around the average?
Roger That !
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If one of your children has a health condition, will another have it, too?
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What kinds of health conditions does newborn screening test for?
Each state requires different tests, so ask your baby’s health care provider which tests your baby will have. You also can visit babysfirsttest.org to find out what conditions your state tests for.
The March of Dimes would like to see all babies in all states screened for at least 34 health conditions. Many of these health conditions can be treated if found early. The health conditions are divided into seven groups:
1. Organic acid metabolism disorders. Babies with these problems don’t metabolize food correctly. Metabolism is the way your body changes food into the energy it needs to breathe, digest and grow.
Isovaleric acidemia (IVA)
Glutaric acidemia (GAI)
Hydroxymethylglutaric aciduria, also called 3-OH 3-CH3 glutaric aciduria (HMG)
Multiple carboxylase deficiency (MCD)
Methylmalonic acidemia, mutase deficiency (MUT)
3-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency (3MCC)
Methylmalonic acidemia, CBl A and CBl B forms
Propionic acidemia (PROP)
Beta-ketothiolase deficiency (BKT)
2. Fatty acid oxidation disorders. When your body runs out of sugar, it usually breaks down fat for energy. A baby with fatty acid oxidation problems can’t change fat into energy.
Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCAD)
Very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (VLCAD)
Long-chain hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (LCHAD)
Trifunctional protein deficiency (TFP) Carnitine uptake defect (CUD)
3. Amino acid metabolism disorders. Babies with these problems can’t process amino acids in the body. Amino acids help the body make protein.
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD)
Homocystinuria (HCY)
Citrullinemia (CIT)
Argininosuccinic acidemia (ASA)
Tyrosinemia type I (TYR I)
4. Hemoglobin disorders. These problems affect red blood cells. Red blood cells carry oxygen to the rest of the body.
Sickle cell anemia
Hb S/beta-thalassemia (Hb S/Th)
Hb S/C disease (Hb S/C)
5. Lysosomal storage disorders. Babies with these problems can’t break down certain types of complex sugars. This causes harmful substances to build up in the body.
Mucopolysaccharidosis Type-1 (MPS 1)
Pompe disease
6. Adrenal gland disorders. These problems affect the adrenal glands, which sit on top of the kidneys and help the body make hormones.
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)
X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD)
7. Other disorders
Congenital hypothyroidism (HYPOTH)
Biotinidase deficiency (BIO)
Galactosemia (GALT)
Hearing loss (HEAR)
Cystic fibrosis (CF)
Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)
Critical congenital heart disease (CCHD)
More information
Newborn screening: Blood screen infographic
Newborn screening: Hearing screen infographic
Newborn screening: Heart screen infographic
NewSTEPs
National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center
Baby’s First Test
See also: Birth defects, Newborn care in the delivery room
Last reviewed: February, 2016
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“Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory revoked the honorary titles held by its longtime leader James D. Watson on Friday, describing as “unsubstantiated and reckless” his recent remarks about genetic differences in intelligence among racial groups.”
Dr. Watson’s comments conclusions are backed up by a large number of scientific tests that have been reproduced by many different scientists over many decades. The test methods have been altered to address concerns about language, cultural and socioeconomic biases and little if any effects have been found. To my knowledge the results are always essentially the same. There is a significant racial difference in average IQ. If Dr. Watson’s claims are “unsubstantiated” I would like to see the data CSHL is using to claim that there are no racial IQ differences.
There is a fine line between genetic and cultural.
Take a look at the Blacks. They have been culturally conditioned to a predisposition towards helpless victimhood.
Any Black attempting to better himself/herself, by education and responsible behavior, is “punished” by the Black “Victims” for being “White”.
It takes real courage to refuse to be kept down on the socialist plantation. Those who rise above, should be respected.
Nothing. It’s non sequitur virtue signalling.
Dr Thomas Sowell has written some interesting pieces on the subject that cover it pretty well.
That's because they do not want to.
Interesting how scientists can rank the intelligence of dog breeds, cat breeds, birds breeds, and other animal breeds within a species, but they can't -- or are unwilling -- to recognize differences in intelligence among human breeds.
These brilliant scientists believe that genetics is important in growing corn, horse breeding, cholesterol level and physical characteristics but have no affect on intelligence?
Funny thing about all these godless scientists who only are led by reason and logic.... They aren’t and they are too arrogant to see themselves as slaves to a religion, albeit not the Christian one. They are slave to a far more fickle religion, but they do not publicly challenge it.
The left argues that we need to accept homosexuals because they are “born that way” but, in the next breath they say that one can choose your gender. That’s the hypocrisy gene that I pose would be 100% homozygous.
Frankly, I don’t care. I don’t think what individuals choose to do is my concern if they are not harming others.
I do get bothered that they expect me to, “bake their cakes” or rent them rooms or pay for their medical procedures. Them choose for themselves but I don’t get to say, I am not accepting of your choices and don’t want it forced on me. I don’t want to be supportive of lots of people insofar as they are making life choices I prefer to avoid. Drug addicts, lazy slobs, sexually permissive people(heterosexuals included) criminals... I try to avoid certain folks behaving in ways that I don’t want to accept in my life. It is possible they may find genes to show these are innate characteristics in time.
As to this article, I accept good people of any flavor.
A mind is like any other muscle. If not exercised and fed properly it is worthless.
so i guess that's why the entire consonant of africa was smart enough to know they didn't need to invent the wheel... or maybe because they knew some other race would invent it for them?
It’s the leftist science denies at work again. The Political Commissars forcing people to engage in self-criticism, and apologize for having an incorrect thought or idea.
In other words, The Truth Hurts, so we can’t say what is true, only what is approved by the Political Commissars.
“Yes,we are all equal in God’s eyes...but not exactly the same.”
Let me repeat that....
Yes,we are all equal in God’s eyes...but not exactly the same.
EXCELLENT!
She was a little wrong. Whites and Asians dominate the top tiers in terms of grades at Harvard and other places, though Jews do have a heavy disproportion in getting admitted.
You have not explored the issue. You need to.
“Mankind’s problems, at their heart, are moral and spiritual.
These two things drive culture.
And politics then is downstream from culture ...”
Nothing but net!
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