Word: belled
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...book, The Bell Curve, has stirred up as much response here as anywhere, and students have taken various positions on it--from cautious support to angry opposition...
...would be nice if her letter were pure irony, a simple attempt to ridicule The Bell Curve by association with other crazy ideas. But subsequent attempts to clarify what Clarke meant have been met with staunch equivocation...
...most recent letter to The Crimson, Clarke still refuses to take a stand: "[The Melanin Theory] is not necessarily something we believe, but some information we think those pursuing a true understanding of The Bell Curve should either address, ignore or refute...
Pure and simple, the melanin theory is baloney, and trying to pose it as a counter to The Bell Curve is not going to be effective...
...Bell Curve, unlike the melanin theory, does ground itself in unassailable scientific facts (the proven difference in IQ between Blacks and whites). This does not, of course, make it correct...