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...phrases as 'I.Q.'s substantial heritability' or 'the heritability of I.Q. is 80 per cent,' despite their appearance as English, are actually scientifically meaningless garbage which have not been refuted in technical journals because there is nothing to refute." In the book The Fallacy of I.Q. (edited by C. Senna and published in 1973), the same Professor Lewontin wrote "the weight of evidence from a variety of correlations between relatives puts the heritability of I.Q. in various human populations between .6 and .8. For reasons of his argument, Jensen prefers the higher value but it is not worth quibbling over...
...community indeed seems split. Carl F. Senna, at the Roxbury Community Council, said, for example, that a lot of people don't agree with Carmichael's solution because "Roxbury is integrated--about 65 per cent Negro and 35 per cent white." There is a division, he said, between the Negroes who have lived in Roxbury for about 40 years and who are well established, and those who have just moved into Roxbury during the last decade. The newcomers, according to Senna, are more likely to identify with "Black Power" and groups that exclude whites; the older inhabitants tend...
Some also say that Negroes do some jobs better, because they are Negroes, and that whites do other jobs better because they are white. Senna mentioned famliy visits as an example "There are just some places where a white would not be as effective as a Negro." On the other hand, Mrs. Anne Briggs, a white staff worker at the American Friends Service Committee, said that she was often able to work better with the "White System" than Negroes. "When you're dealing with a white landlord, he's more apt to give you a sympathetic hearing...
...makers found that Castoria could be made with 20% less sugar than normally. But when they started cutting, last March, they used water" that was a little different from the water used in the tests. Results: during the 45-day aging period when the laxative material (extract of senna) normally becomes oxidized to produce some substances called oxyquinones, the material lost oxygen instead, thereby developed the anthroquinones. Looking back on it now, the makers realize that the Castoria could have been fixed up by heating, longer aging, or introducing oxygen...
Both Centaur and the Food & Drug Administration were stumped to find the guilty emetic. Company chemists analyzed a sample of Castoria, found only what was to be expected in a compound of alcohol, senna extract, bicarbonate of soda, peppermint, anise and flavoring. But when the chemists confidently took a swig, they presently upchucked...