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...provided him with a unique perspective on Harvard. He recalls one event, early in the spring semester last year, which he says set the tone for his later perception of changes in Harvard students: at the end of the first lecture in James Q. Wilson's and Richard Herrnstein's Soc Sci 151, "Crime, Human Nature, and Social Organization," students stood and applauded Herrnstein. When Stephens had last attended classes at the University, students almost daily picketed Herrnstein's lectures for what they believed were his unscientific, racist views on the inheritability of intelligence. The stark contrast "just freaked...
Charges that Cyril Burt, an English researcher who concluded that intelligence is over 80 per cent hereditary, faked his data did not faze Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology. Herrnstein, who used much of Burt's data to support his own work on I.Q. inheritance, said that many of Burt's experiments had been repeated later with more scientific validity, anyhow. You can find statistics for any theory, they...
Members assembled to protest the "racist sociobiological statements of Harvard professors like Herrnstein, James Q. and E.O. Wilson, Glazer and Bernard" Davis, who assert that the poor and minorities are culturally and genetically inferior," Steven Rosenthal, Boston CAR organizer, said in a speech Saturday...
Meanwhile, Princeton psychologist Leon Kamin, inspired by the vehemence of the opposition to Jensen and Herrnstein, thoroughly reexamined all the data and studies on which the hereditarians had based their I.Q. evaluations. He discovered that the lynchpin of the Jensen-Herrnstein argument, the studies of identical twins reared apart, was utterly worthless. Absence of appropriate controls meant that the correlations could just as easily be attributed to environmental as to hereditary influences. The only study of identical twins which claimed to have controlled for environmental factors, that of English psychologist Sir Cyril Burt, proved to be a classic scientific fraud...
Unlike the more narrowly focused doctrines of Jensen and Herrnstein, Wilson's Sociobiology serves a much broader function of promoting biological and hereditary thinking throughout the academic world. For example, Allan Mazur, reviewing Sociobiology in the American Journal of Sociology, frankly states: "Wilson, with his brilliant scholarly reputation and Harvard credentials, has both the visibility and credibility to legitimate the biological approach to sociology. For me that is his major contribution...