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...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...
Amusing though it may be, exposing some of Herrnstein's and Murray's sources is not enough to discredit the entire book. Rather, The Bell Curve has achieved one of its stated goals, which is to bring private speculation on a much whispered-about topic into the public sphere of discussion. Casting aspersions on the authors is not enough--apologists could reasonably label the opinions of liberals like me tendentious, simply because I find the book's conclusion deeply offensive...