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...Herrnstein is condescending towards the radicals who, he says, damaged his student-instructor relationship in Soc Sci 15, deluged the Harvard community with leaflets and posters, misquoted him, accused him and disrupted his attempts to speak publicly at Harvard and other campuses...
...They were not really radical," Herrnstein writes, "in the sense of getting at the roots of anything, or even being politically innovative. On the contrary, my radical critics were quite old-fashioned and doctrinaire, as leftist extremists...
...amplify this view, Herrnstein later notes that "not only the vulgar accusations of 'racism' and 'facism,' but also the political paranoia can be found in both the Russian and domestic Marxist reactions to the application of biology to the study of man..." He compares current radical views with those of T.D. Lysenko, a Russian anti-geneticist...
...tone of the article--a quote such as "the stranger who threatened to stab me 'some night in Harvard yard' as I was leaving the lecture hall, I took to be acting impulsively and not reflecting official SDS or UAG or PLP policy"--may lead one to believe that Herrnstein may have enjoyed parts of his battle, an idea that he denied last night...
...reaction of the radicals was "less gruesome than those who are not radical," Herrnstein said, charging that many scholars "tried to obscure rather than discuss, and others who had the knowledge didn...