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...debate entitled "Biological Determinism" will be held May 7 between Bernard D. Davis '36, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology, and Richard C. Lewontin '50, Agassiz Professor of Zoology...
...Lewontin said yesterday he expects the debate to cover "questions of genetics and IQ and other related subjects." He said the "genetics of human behavior is irrelevant" and called Davis a "Zealot for the genetical explanation for everything...
Davis has claimed in a letter to me that he thinks there is a wholesale attack on science going on," Lewontin said yesterday, Lewontin said that he rejects this charge but said "people have acted unscientifically" In research relating genetics and human behavior...
...Lewontin emphasized the necessity of exposing what he called the fraudulent nature of Jensen's reasoning...
...purpose of this argument is to justify given social arrangements. If you assume that the differences in races is a function of the differences in genes and that I.Q. is inherited, then you do not have to bother with improvement," Lewontin said...