Word: herrnsteins
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...Bell Curve was published with much fanfare. In this work, Charles Murray '65 and the late Richard J. Herrnstein argued that intelligence is inheritable and black and Latinos come up short on every test. Since one author has a degree from Harvard, and the other was a professor at the University, their words and ideas have been taken by many Americans as gospel. Likewise, Agassiz, Morton and a number of other 19th-century scholars connected to prestigious universities and foundations operating from racist perspectives saturated the public with pseudoscientific proof that African-Americans were inferior. The 1990s is a repeat...
...kept it roiling with controversy, running such cover stories as a 1994 attack on Clinton's health-care plan by Betsy McCaughey (which many credit with turning the political tide against the plan) and a lengthy excerpt from The Bell Curve, the book by Charles Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein, linking IQ with race. Last week, after 4 1/2 years at the helm, Sullivan resigned as editor and found himself at the center of another controversy. The question: Did he quit, or was he fired...
...action--handing out fliers which featured some of Prof. Mansfield's more ridiculous quotes. Mansfield's comments prove that he does not deserve the David Duke Award for Teaching Excellence. His unsubstantiated and ill-concieved theories about Black students are more in the tradition of the late Professor Richard Herrnstein...
...books. New York City's Free Press has published a long list of first-rate works on political and social issues by writers from every point on the spectrum, yet so far the only blockbuster among them (with 400,000 copies in print) has been Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein's The Bell Curve, which argues that blacks are genetically stupider than whites. On the jacket of D'Souza's latest, the Free Press high-mindedly says its publication will further expand "the range of acceptable discourse about race" by "setting forth the principles that should guide us in creating...
Block criticized Murray and Herrnstein's extrapolation of data on white IQs, and said that the dearth of scientific evidence on the inheritability of IQ in Blacks further weakened the book...