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Herrnstein said that Lewontin "has never communicated with me" concerning a debate. He said that Lewontin was invited to debate him on the West Coast, but refused...
...Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of SDS will present a petition Thursday to Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, calling on him to debate his views on I.Q. with Richard C. Lewontin '50, professor of Biology...
...petition says that "Herrnstein has consistently refused to confront qualified opponents who refute his views." Lewontin, a member of the Committee to Fight Racism, said yesterday that he has asked publicly that Herrnstein debate him, "but Professor Herrnstein refuses to debate me in public...
Herrnstein said yesterday that there is no grounds for a debate. "Professor Lewontin and I do not disagree on the question of the inheritability of I.Q., so the whole controversy is a fraud," Herrnstein said. "But he likes to call me terrible names like 'racist'," he added...
...refused my invitations to discuss and debate these issues at length on a public platform. For the sake of Psychology students, I trust that quotations out of context and refusals to have open discussions of his writings are not generally characteristic of Mr. Herrnstein's intellectual armamentarium. R.C. Lewontin Professor of Biology