Saletan’s Scuttle And The Curse Of Jacob Weisberg By James Fulford

As Steve Sailer noted in our blog [VDARE.COM’s Unique Selling Proposition Restored!] Slate’s William Saletan has scuttled for cover and issued “Regrets” for standing up for the basic facts of the IQ debate.

Saletan had previously done a three-part series that began:

“Last month, James Watson, the legendary biologist, was condemned and forced into retirement after claiming that African intelligence wasn't ‘the same as ours.’ ‘Racist, vicious and unsupported by science’, said the Federation of American Scientists. ‘Utterly unsupported by scientific evidence’, declared the U.S. government's supervisor of genetic research.

“The New York Times told readers that when Watson implied ‘that black Africans are less intelligent than whites, he hadn't a scientific leg to stand on.’

“I wish these assurances were true. They aren't. Tests do show an IQ deficit, not just for Africans relative to Europeans, but for Europeans relative to Asians.”

For the record, we are not dealing here with a “pseudoscientific” belief that blacks have a genetically lower IQ. We are dealing with a fact: blacks do have lower average IQ test scores. It’s at least arguable that this fact is connected with another fact—what the United States Congress calls the “Achievement Gap,” with reference to K-12 education and the No Child Left Behind Act, and which Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom call the “Racial Gap In Learning” .

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