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Aside from Richard Herrnstein, one of SDS's prime targets this year has been William Shockley, a professor of Engineering at Stanford and a major proponent of the theory that intelligence is primarily dependent upon heredity...
This week, the Stanford administration decided not to allow Shockley to teach an accredited course on his controversial theories. In a statement delivered Monday, the administration said Shockley could not teach the course because the topic of genetics falls outside of his field. The statement also said that the course, as Shockley described it, seemed "polemical" and thus inappropriate for classroom instruction. "The level of objectivity of the proposed course is at least troubling," it concluded...
...Shockley--who won a Nobel prize for inventing the transistor in 1956--has studied the hereditability of intelligence off and on since 1964. The most controversial of his many theories on the subject is a belief that nature has "color-coded" the human race: the darker someone's skin, says Shockley, the lower his intelligence is likely to be. "Every percentage point of black blood a person has in him lowers his I.Q. one point," he maintains...
William B. Shockley. Nobel Prize winner in physics from Stanford University, was prevented from speaking at Dartmouth College when 25 students applauded so loudly he could not be heard. Although Shockley specializes in semi-conductors and invented the junction transistor, his paper dealt with the hereditary factors in intelligence, and was called "Offset Analysis of Racial Differences...
...make comparisons. We don't know what the differences are between different racial groups and there is a strong prejudice against finding out. Suppose you made a study to determine if there are differences between the brains of whites and Negroes and proved it?" Nobel Laureate William Shockley, a solid-state physicist, drew outraged reaction from the scientific community when he charged that "inverted liberalism" raises taboos against research into man's genetic intellectual differences and "paralyzes the ability to doubt...