I read the SEP article now. It's not really anything amazing, generally repeats Lewontin stuff. It also makes claims about consensus about some things, but presents no survey evidence. It does not at all engage with empirical evidence on GxE or GxG of which there is plenty.
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I havne't read that book (yet). Obviously, one cannot just ignore arguments because their origins are Marxists, but if literally every major opponent of something is Marxist (Gould, Lewontin, Kamin, their other commie friends), then I'm very suspicious.
And these people have directly stated their opposition comes on ideological grounds ('science for the people' etc.), and this is supported by reports from their colleagues. One cannot attack hereditarians for being political extremists. IQ researchers are center-left on average.
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I have come to have very large distrust in philosophers. The fact that they keep making the same trite arguments about heritability without reference to empirical work for 5 years I think is extremely damning. Why do they keep repeating their strawmen of Jensen, for instance?
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I don't like Rushton's work for methods reasons, seems I was somewhat right in this view if we are to take Dutton's biography seriously (I haven't read it). I am sympathetic to traditional leftism, and environmentalism (esp. work safety), so I am happy you choose to engage. :)
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Dutton has a video summary of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dL8XCuBNM4 … I support Scandinavian social democracy type government, but without the crazy social justice stuff in recent times.
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