@freddiedeboer Bell Curve suffers from same problem as Elizabeth McCaughey's No Exit article in TNR.
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@freddiedeboer A magazine like TNR has countless articles to chose from, so to pick pseudo-science which gets discredited is wrong choice4 replies 1 retweet 1 like -
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@freddiedeboer As Sullivan notes, Bell Curve had "huge publicity and marketing budget." If so, book didn't need extra legitimacy from TNR2 replies 1 retweet 1 like -
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@alexios13@freddiedeboer No: extra legitimacy from New Republics reputation as a liberal publication. "Even the liberal New Republic...."2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@alexios13@freddiedeboer You can take part in a discourse without legitimizing it, by criticizing ideas you disagree with.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@alexios13@freddiedeboer They could've have just published book review, as is the norm for controversial books.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@alexios13 @freddiedeboer The reviews of the book in the scholarly press were the ones that ultimately did it in, not TNR's critiques.
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