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...Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of SDS will present a petition Thursday to Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, calling on him to debate his views on I.Q. with Richard C. Lewontin '50, professor of Biology...
...petition says that "Herrnstein has consistently refused to confront qualified opponents who refute his views." Lewontin, a member of the Committee to Fight Racism, said yesterday that he has asked publicly that Herrnstein debate him, "but Professor Herrnstein refuses to debate me in public...
...Herrnstein said yesterday that there is no grounds for a debate. "Professor Lewontin and I do not disagree on the question of the inheritability of I.Q., so the whole controversy is a fraud," Herrnstein said. "But he likes to call me terrible names like 'racist'," he added...
...expose Mr. Herrnstein's brand of nonsense, I again did not challenge any particular estimate of heritability in any population, because none of these estimates is relevant to the causes of the difference between social classes. Just to make things crystal clear, however, let me state again that no current estimate of the heritability of IQ can be validly referred to the white population of the United States as a whole, not to any identifiable sub-section of it. We do not know to what real population, if any, these estimates are to be referred, and they are all irrelevant...
...Herrnstein has refused my invitations to discuss and debate these issues at length on a public platform. For the sake of Psychology students, I trust that quotations out of context and refusals to have open discussions of his writings are not generally characteristic of Mr. Herrnstein's intellectual armamentarium. R.C. Lewontin Professor of Biology