The Race FAQ By Steve Sailer

This was another tumultuous week in the science wars over race.

The Times (both London and New York) ran articles claiming that James Watson was genetically one-quarter non-white. Yet anyone with a basic knowledge of American racial history who bothered to look at the first half dozen pages of Watson’s new autobiography, Avoid Boring People, which includes photos and detailed information on his ancestors, would realize that this assertion by the Icelandic firm deCODE genetics is wildly unlikely.

The New Yorker printed an essay by Malcolm Gladwell on race and IQ that contained such an egregious libel of Charles Murray that the magazine posted a humiliating apology and retraction.

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