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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thames_sider who wrote (9785)	3/26/2001 7:21:57 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Even so, science is ultimately forgiving of iconoclasts - so long as they can be 'proven' right, by others or events... Hmmm. I have my doubts. And, of course, they must be proven right by the rules others apply. A question: do you truly believe that if brain chemistry research proves that the average intelligence, as we presently measure it, is lower in some races than in others, that Shockley will really be hailed as the originator of this genetic theory? I won't hold my breath waiting for it to happen! In the current scientific environment, there are certain questions it is illegitimte to ask, and certain experiments it is illegitimate to perform, not because of the harm they will do to individuals, but because certain answers that might come out of them would be unacceptable to the scientific community. One reviewer of The Bell Curve called the field of race-intelligence study a "taboo" subject within the scientific community, and I find it hard to disagree. Theoretically, taboos should exist in religion, but not in science!