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...popular questionings. While Kohoutek harkens back to one of Wells's more obscure works, In The Days of The Comet, another more recent scientific popularization revives what was a major issue in Wells's life and works. That is the great debate of nature vs. nurture, genetics vs. environment, Shockley vs. the sane world. For, throughout Wells's works, there is a recurring pattern of ideas which centers around the stark determinism of Darwinian evolution, the possible effects it may have if inferior men continue to breed, and the need for an enlightened (ie. genetically superior) elite to rule...
Montagu called Shockley a racist--a charge Shockley denied, saying he is a "raceologist"--because "a racist is one who believes that there are significant biological differences in race that should determine sociological differences...
...Innis, national director of the Congress on Racial Equality, was originally scheduled to debate Shockley, but backed off at the last minute, he said, because the debate was open only to Princeton students and faculty...
...Shockley, a Nobel laureate in physics and self-proclaimed geneticist, said in the debate that intelligence in blacks is directly proportional to their percentage of "Caucasian blood," and that the U.S. government should give cash bonuses to people of below-average intelligence who submit to sterilization...
...Shockley was especially interested in press coverage of the debate; he held what he called a "tutorial" beforehand, at which he urged reporters to familiarize themselves with his theories so they could "go out and do an uncover job just like Watergate, because the coverup going on is of greater significance than Watergate...