Word: murrayism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bell Curve, a recent book by Charles Murray '65 and the late Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein which argues that whites as a group are inherently smarter than Blacks: "I haven't read the book yet. But, we who are egalitarians and believe in equality should not be afraid of science; truth will show that all men and women are created equally and with equal potential...
...done in many previous works, [Murray] has totally ignored the impact of socio-economic circumstances and goes further to fabricate some other preposterous explanations," said former BSA President Alvin Bragg '95. "It's not scholarship as far as I'm concerned...
...Hernstein and Murray] are trying to say that one race is genetically, intellectually superior and therefore there's going to naturally develop some sort of intellectual elite that's highly correlated with race, then no, that's not productive," he said...
...early August, the Boston Globe was already predicting an "intellectual firefight" over the book, by late Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles A. Murray '65, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute...
...debate begun by Herrnstein and Murray is now on the cover of Newsweek. The New Republic filled its October 31 issue, released more than a week ago, with arguments for and against...