Race, Intelligence and Genetics: The High Cost of Thinking the Unthinkable.

Rice, Berkeley

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Publication Date: 1973

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Race, Intelligence and Genetics: The High Cost of Thinking the Unthinkable

Rice, Berkeley

Psychology Today, 7, 7, 89-93, Dec 73

Reviews the furor and reaction to Arthur Jensen's controversial genetic theory of intellectual differences. The cases of Shockley, Eysenck, and Herrnstein are also discussed as instances in which intellectual debate was supplanted by academic persecution and impassioned rhetoric. (EH)

Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Genetics, Heredity, Intelligence Differences, Nature Nurture Controversy, Racial Differences

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