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...Herrnstein regurgitates Jensen's conclusions, adds a few "insights" of his own, and gets his message published by the prestigious Atlantic Monthly and summaries printed in major newspapers and news magazines...
...genetics. Presumably nobody would object very strongly if a noted physicist wanted to teach heretical theories about the origins of Shakespeare's plays, but the racist implications of Shockley's views have aroused fierce protests (as have the similar but more scholarly views of Psychologists Richard Herrnstein at Harvard and Arthur Jensen at Berkeley). Graffiti on Stanford walls have urged, "Sterilize Shockley." He has been burned in effigy. On two occasions his classes were broken up by hostile students, some flaunting the sheets of the Ku Klux Klan...
Aside from Richard Herrnstein, one of SDS's prime targets this year has been William Shockley, a professor of Engineering at Stanford and a major proponent of the theory that intelligence is primarily dependent upon heredity...
...Herrnstein--who has been lumped with Shockley by protesters--disagrees sharply on the issue of racial differences in intelligence. He says that although blacks score lower on the average on intelligence tests, this difference may be due to the long history of discrimination against blacks...
...decision not to let Shockley teach his genetic theories, Herrnstein is hesitant to label Stanford unfair. He has not seen an outline of Shockley's proposed course and says. "I can't tell whether this is a case of political orthodoxy preventing certain kinds of views from being presented...