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...also make little impact on American psychologists who believe that heredity is crucial to intelligence; they have produced several twin studies similar to Burt's. Says Herrnstein, "I know of no correlation of Burt's which is seriously challenged in the literature." But Harvard's Richard Lewontin, a population geneticist, says that Burt's work with twins "is the only large study which is methodologically correct, so its loss is no trivial problem for the heritability people. It is also not nice for them to have this mess in their backyard...
Scientists who have received public attention for their statements on heredity include Layzer, Kamin, Richard C. Lewontin '50, professor of Biology and Stephan J. Gould, professor of Geology. Agreeing with Burt's conclusions, if not his data, are Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, and Arthur Jensen, professor of educational psychology at the University of California at Berkeley...
Instead of the one ten-page paper that Gould and his fellow lecturer Richard C. Lewontin '50, Agassiz Professor of Zoology, required for a "B" in past years, the course now demands six short papers...
Joining George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, in opposing the proposed research at Harvard's Biology Laboratories were several members of the Boston chapter of SftP: Jonathan R. Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Richard C. Lewontin '50, Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Steven Chorover, professor of Psychiatry at MIT, and Jonathan King, associate professor of Biology...
...scientists have decided to rig the contest in their favor by changing the ground rules of discussion. They cite the stringency of their own precautions. They tell you that the p-3 facility is safe for all levels of the work they plan to pursue. But, as Richard C. Lewontin '50, professor of Biology, warned last week, we shouldn't be surprised if some overly ambitious scientists does experiments that should be classified p-4 in the p-3 facility. (p-4 work is very dangerous and needs a far more protective facility, like that used in biological warfare testing...