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Nineteen months after "I.Q." touched off a blaze among radicals and academics, Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, has added another log to the fire...
...article in the April issue of Commentary, Herrnstein rebuts those who have charged that his theories are racist and defends his original viewpoint, while offering description and thinly-veiled criticism of the reaction and tactics of radicals and academic colleagues...
...Herrnstein directs his first attack at the "environmentalist doctrine that dominates both our education and our attitudes toward social policy," and goes on to rebut his critics...
...most common charge leveled against Herrnstein has been that of racism, to which he replies: "...my article took what might be called an explicitly agnostic stand on racial (i.e., black-white) differences in tested intelligence. For technical but compelling reasons, as touched on in my article, I believe that racial and ethnic group differences are hard to pin down as regards inheritance...
...story reported that Hilary Putnam, the Faculty Old Faithful of the radical left, has severed his association with P.L. and will seek no further affiliation with radical groups. In retrospect, Putnam says, it was a mistake for P.L. and SDS to couple racism and academic freedom in the Herrnstein controversy...