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McGuire launched the recent exchange with an essay entitled "Defending the Bell Curve," in which he suggested a link between race and intelligence...
...genetic basis of IQ, if not a link between IQ and race, is an established fact in the scientific world, he said...
...credence to such ideas -- even when doing so with loud sighs of alas! -- is to resume some of the most poisonous battles of the late 1960s and '70s, when the sometimes cranky outer limits of the IQ debate were personified by Arthur Jensen, the Berkeley psychologist who stressed the link between race, genes and IQ, and William Shockley, who proposed paying people with low IQs to be sterilized. Murray says the reaction against them shut off a necessary discussion. "The country has for a long time been in almost hysterical denial that genes can play any role whatsoever...
While Australian federal police found no such link, they discovered Jouret and Di Mambro had repeatedly visited the country beginning in the mid-1980s. People who met Jouret say he was fascinated by Ayers Rock, the huge monolith sacred to the Aborigines that rises from the desert floor in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. He apparently told acquaintances that the rock's "mystic appeal" had drawn him to Australia and that he had applied to hold a religious service there. The Aborigines, who control access to Ayers Rock, turned him down...
...Each link in the financial-services food chain may make sense, but the whole chain raises two questions. First, are we weakening the signals on which the invisible hand of capitalism relies? How many layers of decision makers are there between my decision to save a dollar and someone else's decision to put that dollar to practical use? Each layer is like a relay station along an old, predigital telephone line: it propels the message but also slightly distorts it. Cumulatively, the small distortions can add up to a lot of noise in the system...