Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alan Bell, co-founder of the Foundation for Environmental Health Research in Arizona and an expert in chronic fatigue syndrome, said the causes of fatigue are not fully understood...
Symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome include muscle weakness, headaches and dizziness, Bell said...
Gould isn't afraid to challenge the basis of The Bell Curve's questionable research, something which many of his colleagues have shied away from. Lay reviewers, he notes, have let themselves become frightened by the statistics and charts thrown at them by Murray and Herrnstein, materials which are filled with errors and misapplied research...
...does seem strange that more attention hasn't been focused on the fact that the two scholars gathered much of their data from questionable sources. In the acknowledgments to The Bell Curve, for example, Murray and Herrnstein say they "benefited especially from the advice" of Richard Lynn, a scholar who in 1991 wrote in the neo-eugenicist journal Mankind Quarterly that "the Caucasoids and the Mongoloids are the only two races that have made any significant contribution to civilization." Then there's J. Phillipe Rushton, a Canadian psychologist who suggested in 1986 that Nazi Germany's military prowess was connected...
...amazing how far you can get by ringing the bell of racism...