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...letter dated August 15, SDS responded to Bok's letter of August 8 in which he indicated that he lacks the technical expertise to evaluate Herrnstein's article on the heritability of intelligence...
...expressed satisfaction with President Bok's explanation of why he will not debate the Herrnstein issue, and has asked Bok to submit a letter to Science Magazine explaining that his note to Herrnstein was just one of several he has sent faculty members...
...Finally, I have never said that Mrs. Kilbreth has not read my writings on I.Q. Having read her article, I would, however, say that it is the generous assumption to suppose that she has not. R.J. Herrnstein Professor of Psychology
...Herrnstein's advocacy of social policy based on the false assumption of genetically determined social classes comes at a time of severe government cutbacks in education, medical care, welfare and housing. Cuts are justified on the racist grounds that those receiving aid are culturally or genetically unable to benefit. One Boston school committee member, for example, pointed to low reading scores of black children to justify oppostion to busing, and the terrible school conditions...
There are striking parallels in history to this combination of oppressive policy and "science" to back it up. Several of Herrnstein's sources, Francis Galton and Lewis Terman, were in the 1920s eugenics movement, which led to 30 states passing laws against interracial marriage and for sterilization of 10,000 of the "defective" in 24 states. Herrnstein is aware of the inadequacy of his data and of the seriousness of the social policy he advocates. By publishing again in a popular news magazine, providing no new evidence to prove his case, and by calling for social policy whose application could...