Emil O W Kirkegaard

2. Or at least, the headline did. Which the authors, of course, didn't write. The content of the article is much kinder to Murray.

3. There are unfair things in the Vox article, essentially imputing a far more extreme position to Murray than he espoused on the podcast.

5. This article provides many weak and absurd arguments in favour of a "hereditarian" hypothesis, not one of which shows any such thing.

6. They're warmed-over debating points based on weak research (often not even cited here) that we've heard a million times before.

7. The fact that half-arsed speculations like the "Cold Winters Theory" are being taken seriously by anyone tells you a lot about just...

7a. ...how little evidence there is in this area. This really is barrel-scraping to a ridiculous degree.