ALL ISSUES - Race & IQ
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Volume 3 Number 3
- Curves & Cycles
An Introduction to the Special Section on The Bell Curve
by Michael Shermer - A Place in the Sun
The Error in The Bell Curve is to assume that genetic variation, which can account for differences among individuals within a group, is also the reason for differences between groups.
by Carol Tavris - The Skewed Logic of the Bell-Shaped Curve
The authors leap from data to unfounded conclusions. The Bell Curve is really a book about how we should be spending our tax dollars.
by Diane Halpern - An Interview with Robert Sternberg on The Bell Curve
Even though it was written for the media, Herrnstein and Murray’s book has greatly increased public confusion and misconception about the relationship between heritability and environment.
Interview by Frank Miele - Insult to Injury — The Use & Abuse of The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve has contributed to a renaissance of enthusiasm for some of the most dubious accomplishments of the human imagination — Social Darwinists, eugenicists, sterilizationists, racists, polygenecists, anti-amalgamationists, and elitists of every stripe.
by G. A. Elmer Griffin - In Defense of The Bell Curve
The Reality of Race and the Importance of Human Differences
We can begin this trip out of political correctness by noting that on genetic grounds alone there can be no doubt of the existence of a substantial number of human races. Races are, if you wish, fuzzy sets.
by Vincent M. Sarich - Scientology v. the Internet
Free Speech & Copyright Infringement on the Information Super-Highway
by Jim Lippard and Jeff Jacobsen - ’Twas Brillig…
The “Curse” of King Tut and of the Princess-in-a-Box
by James Randi - Satanic Panic Update
The Dangers of Moral Panics: What Skeptics (and Everyone Else) Need to Know
by Jeffrey S. Victor - Believing the Unbelievable
Linking “Recovered Memories” to Hypnosis, Dreams, Sleep Paralysis, and Panic Attacks
by Mark Pendergrast - The Question All Skeptics Are Asking
What is the Proper Way to Eat a Light Bulb?
by Bernard Leikind - The Dirt & the Details
Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend,
by Jeffrey S. Victor
Reviewed by David Alexander - Houdini Escapes Again
The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini,
by Ruth Brandon
Reviewed by Jamy Ian Swiss - The Many Victims of False Memories
Victims of Memory: Incest, Accusation and Shattered Lives,
by Mark Pendergrast
Reviewed by David Bloomberg
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