Category Archives: Biology

What’s Normal? Reconciling Biology and Culture

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2016 book by Allan V. Horwitz: * Contemporary developed societies are the safest, healthiest, and most prosperous that have ever existed, so we might expect that their citizens would have low levels of fearfulness. … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Charles Murray’s Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Luke Ford

Link: We should hope—emphasis on the should—for a discipline of Actual Social Science, whose practitioners strive to report the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, with the same passionately dispassionate objectivity they might bring to the study … Continue reading →

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New York Times Journalist Amy Harmon Vs James Watson

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer: * By the way, if you decide to send out dissenting tweets on this topic, please don’t copy Amy Harmon on them, because she will just use them to write a pity party follow-up article about … Continue reading →

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NYT: James Watson Won’t Stop Talking About Race

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Luke Ford

Amy Harmon writes: The Nobel-winning biologist has drawn global criticism with unfounded pronouncements on genetics, race and intelligence. He still thinks he’s right, a new documentary finds. It has been more than a decade since James D. Watson, a founder … Continue reading →

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How Your Politics Can Change Your Physiology

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Luke Ford

Left-wingers and right-wingers not only see the world differently, as Jonathan Haidt explains, they experience the world different. Much of our political orientation comes from our biology. I wonder if your politics can change your physiology? When I think back … Continue reading →

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