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To: longnshort who wrote (231810)	5/6/2005 6:42:39 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576170

"Nature science mag. wouldn't take a guys research that Gayness might be cause by a virus caught in the first trimester." Are you talking about the journal Nature? If so, it is a journal. Which means research papers are peer reviewed. If a paper doesn't pass peer review, it doesn't get published. Now true, the reviewers might have let politics cloud their review of the paper, that has happened. But it is more likely there were enough methodological flaws to bounce it. You claim to read it, you should know this. Never read the book "Bell Curve". Never heard of it. I don't have a clue as to what you are trying to say here. True, evolution doesn't make everyone the same. I don't have a clue as to where you are going with this either. A large measure of Summers problems has to do with him making a lot of enemies at Harvard. His statement was overly broad. You can't take a group, like women, and paint them all with the same brush. As far as your "you guys" statement, I am not now, nor have I ever been a follower of PC speech. Your pigeonhole needs some work.

To: longnshort who wrote (231810)	5/6/2005 8:39:43 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576170

And don't forget about the book 'the bell curve' PC nonsense may have had something to do with it but the main reason why the Bell Curve was trashed is because of the following: "IQ gaps in other nations Attempted compilations of average IQ by race generally place East Asians at the top, followed by Whites, other Asians, Arabs and Blacks. See IQ and the Wealth of Nations for an attempted compilation of average IQ for different nations and a discussion of associated problems. The IQ scores vary greatly between different nations for the same group. Blacks in Africa score much lower than Blacks in the US. The black-white gap is much smaller in the UK than in the US [3] (http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/001047.html). Another example is Jews who score much lower in developing nations and Koreans who score much lower in Japan. There are many examples of IQ score differences between close neighbours in the same nation, for example between French vs. Flemish speakers in Belgium, Slovaks vs. Gypsies in Slovakia, Irish & Scottish vs. English in Great Britain, and white speakers of Afrikaans vs. white speakers of English in South Africa. The difference between the white neighbours Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland is as large as the differences between whites and blacks in the US [4] (http://home.att.net/~Resurgence/L-inferiorIQ.htm)." en.wikipedia.org