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

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (37756)	11/20/2001 12:30:47 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Actually, I think that they would. If only so that it could be disproven. They might even publish it with rebuttals, if they thought the premises and science hokey. I assume you're referring to the 'bell-curve' controversy of recent years? I can't say how accurate the science is, but I'd expect rather poor simply judging from my own experience of the intellects of colleagues and students of different races but otherwise similarly advantaged upbringings... but remember we've both heard of it, and books on it have been openly published. And since both our cases reside on our suppositions about what 'reputable scientific journals' might or might not do, we've neither of us proven our cases. Try it and see. Of course, unlike in Galileo's case, I think that the ruling authorities of the day would not imprison, torture and force recantation upon the scientist. And I don't recall all mention of that bell-curve study being repressed and punishable by (spiritual) death, either. Which does prove my case. We live under more enlightened regimes. Superstitious primitivist holdouts notwithstanding - for they no longer rule.