2. As @mattyglesias rightly notes, the race & IQ stuff wasn't a big part of The Bell Curve. Indeed, not even necessary for its core arguments. But they were part of how the book was sold.
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3. Wall Street Journal, 1994: Bell Curve was "swept forward by a strategy that provided book galleys to likely supporters while withholding them from likely critics" -- “to fix the fight when it released review copies selectively, contrary to usual publishing protocols.”
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4. I argue here that the way Bell Curve was marketed is a big part of what it was all about:https://newrepublic.com/article/147960/charles-murray-marketing-genius …
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UBI is not a terrible idea and is being tired in parts of Canada if I'm not mistaken.
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Huh - I thought Sally was an only child
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But hardly unique here, or?
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Edith Sitwell put words together in interesting and never-before-seen ways and she deserves a lot better than being paired in a syllogism with Charles Goddamn Murray.
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Not exactly a syllogism.
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It doesn’t even rise to the level of pseudoscience. Murray has no science background whatever. It’s bigotry pure & simple
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