Daan

Philosophical Psychology published a paper trumpeting “race science.” Some have called for it to be retracted. I fear (again) a larger backlash against those calling for its retraction is mounting. I hope those who are defending free speech remember ALSO to denounce the paper.

Should we also denounce the work David Reich, the liberal genetics professor at Harvard, who Cofnas approvingly cites? Or the New York Times, which ran an OP ed by him in 2018 defending similar conclusions?

No? Cofnas's paper lists the reasons not to make certain conclusions from eg twin adoption studies (there may be pervasive racism) and then repeats the same arguments anyway, pretending that racism has disappeared. It's just a dumb paper.

Spencer, I didn't think you would go for this drivel - you are way above this. Come on. I refuse to go re-read the Cofnas paper, but I read it in like 2 minutes and he rehearses the familiar objections to the very arguments he ends up endorsing.

As I recall, he ends the section on the "scientific dispute" by pretending that you must appeal to a mysterious "X" to explain why a Black child adopted into a white family would still have an IQ deficit, as if racism doesn't exist in that environment too.

The problem is that Cofnas’ paper doesn’t depend on racism not existing in that environment as well.

Just as much racism exists in that environment. Maybe more!