Comments on: American geneticists now face an even more drastic form of censorship

By: TWS

TWS — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:10:00 +0000

Codominium science police.

By: Adar

Adar — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 06:08:17 +0000

“when we quit being a racist society, we can naturally discuss and map these matters.”

And of course USA can NEVER become a non-racist society. It is a genetical disorder without redemption.

By: Michael van der Riet

Michael van der Riet — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:23:34 +0000

Geneticists censored: in the sunset of my life I see the dawn of the Unenlightenment. My grandchildren may not live to see the end of it.

By: Bomag

Bomag — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 15:05:14 +0000

The delicate thing here is race and intelligence. James Lee protests that research not involving race is throttled, but the gatekeepers don’t want to go anywhere near that slope.

It’s been a sticky issue forever, I suppose. The Dred Scott decision waded in. After Herrnstein’s IQ article in 1970, some Harvard faculty took out a full page ad in the campus newspaper announcing that there is no link between genes and intelligence. Astonishing. How did they know? Can we get their data? In Chomsky’s rebuttal to Herrnstein, he counseled against this tactic, suggesting that when we quit being a racist society, we can naturally discuss and map these matters. Rather naive in hindsight.

By: Bomag

Bomag — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 04:08:59 +0000

What Bob Sykes said.

It started slow and ramped up: mention in the intro that science should serve the public. Sure, nothing wrong with that. Mention the historical standing of indigenous people. Okay, kind of unrelated, but it’s just one line. Then, like the doctor who realized he was a whore for the pharmaceutical companies, you wake up one day in a container headed for Thailand.

In genetics, one bright spot is plant and animal science, where gains have been made helped by various protocols mapping genes to performance. These could be flipped to human studies. I imagine it’s not on the Woke radar, for various reasons, like wanting to eat.

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 13:39:21 +0000

It’s not just the NIH. The entire US science establishment, schools, agencies, professional societies, and publications has succumbed to wokeism. All science is being heavily censored.

The cancer starts in the school hiring and admission policies. At every college and university in the US, a candidate must sign an affidavit that they support progressive/woke policies, and they must provide evidence, including references, that they have done so in the past. It is pretty common for colleges of education to require affidavits from their students in order to graduate.

Lysenkoism wrecked Soviet biology for a generation. It will be worse here, because all science (and mathematics) will be destroyed.

By: Keynes

Keynes — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 21:40:20 +0000

The NIH structure is more than ripe for special interests. Willful poverty through indentured servitude is the easiest way to label the employment process. Expecting new hires to live on stipends. With a STEM degree that is worth 3 times more as a new hire in industry. Interesting to find out that aspiring scientists are being paid less that minimum wage to work “Prestige” positions and live in a crap hole like DC. Not even on the GS scale. So we can see that the NIH is a haven for trust fund kids and the kind of fool that thinks a NIH title is worth making 24k in one of the most expensive cities on Earth. A Liberal rookery in action