from Hacker News

DNA scientist James Watson stripped of honors over views on race

by milkcircle on 1/14/19, 4:31 PM with 21 comments

• by pmdulaney on 1/14/19, 5:52 PM

  Would he have had his honors stripped if he had claimed that women have better verbal skills than men?

• by didgeoridoo on 1/14/19, 5:01 PM

  Is there a reason, in principle, why it is unlikely or impossible for average IQ to be related to “race” (however that concept is defined)?

  Maybe because IQ is the result of a huge number of interacting genetic factors, and is thus unlikely to experience substantial drift over the existence of the human species? That would differentiate it from e.g. melanin production or lactose tolerance, which are heavily determined by only a few genes, and thus more likely to respond to selective pressure.

• by eorge_g on 1/14/19, 4:56 PM

  He relies on IQ tests for the basis of his beliefs and I have to side with Taleb on that one: https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...

• by someone454 on 1/14/19, 4:56 PM

  Prove him wrong, doing it this way only proves that people are irrational in the face of criticism