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...Jensen Takes a New Line...
Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen, who caused an academic furor in 1969 when he declared blacks are genetically inclined to lower I.Q.s than whites, moderated his position this summer...
Edward Wilson has been picketed, and at Harvard, the left-wing Committee Against Racism has called sociobiology "dangerously racist." The committee also charged that the new science would give comfort to the supporters of Psychologist Arthur Jensen, a leading proponent of another controversial theory: that racial differences in IQs have a genetic basis. Wilson angrily called that attack "slander," and even Lewontin came to his defense, conceding that "sociobiology is not a racist doctrine." But he added, "Any kind of genetic determinism can and does feed other kinds, including the belief that some races are superior to others...
William D. Wallace, director of Harvard's health career program, resigned from the American Academy for the Advancement of Science this February when that prestigious organization voted to admit California psychologist Arthur Jensen, who has tried to correlate racial heritage and intelligence, to its ranks...
...Leonhart '65, a member of CAR, said it is important to raise consciousness among both the academic community and the general populace regarding the possible harm to the fight against racism of Wilson's and Jensen's ideas...