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Then, in the 1970s, science began to show that the nurture-only view was indeed too simplistic--which triggered a backlash from the left. When researchers like Richard Herrnstein and E.O. Wilson demonstrated that genes do play a significant role in human intelligence and behavior, for example, they were vilified by many of their colleagues. And just a few years ago, a conference designed to explore the genetic roots of violence had to be canceled in the face of widespread condemnation...
...backlash was understandable, says Pinker. Once you suggest that human nature is in any way hardwired, it's easier for the unscrupulous to write off entire groups as genetically inferior--as the Nazis did with Jews, Poles, Gypsies and gays. If have-nots are genetically lacking in drive or intelligence or ambition, what's the point of fighting poverty...
...Winthrop HoCo has not received any backlash from residents, Kavanagh said...
Many indies have also exploited the Starbucks backlash. Mike Sheldrake, owner of Polly's Gourmet Coffee in Long Beach, Calif., was losing money before he reformatted with an anti-corporate feel, highlighting his giant antique coffee roaster and telling baristas to remember regular customers' names. He has been profitable ever since. "It's as close to a hometown watering hole as you can get," says client Howard Homan, a retired civil servant...
...gone unnoticed (News, “Faculty Debates Summers’ Remarks,” Oct. 16). Hanson stated that, “he had experienced first-hand how quickly the door to free and open debate can be closed,” referring to the campus-wide backlash against the signers of the divestment petition in general and, more specifically, to the fact that Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz publicly challenged him to a debate, a challenge that he refused. Is Hanson serious? If anyone “closed the door to free and open debate...