tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post7140706346580545592..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: Eugenics is back...and YOU are paying for it!Anne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-92208321309861157112011-06-22T09:15:58.317-04:002011-06-22T09:15:58.317-04:00The arguments go back to the classics, hardly chan...The arguments go back to the classics, hardly changed. There are serious issues afoot. It's challenging enough to understand causes of phenotypes, and their evolution, without being ideological, when nobody cares about them--like, say, why crows caw, or the shape of petunia petals. <br /><br />But when the traits apply to how we fare in our own society, personal biases and politics inevitably, and properly, entangle judgments about the 'evidence'. (Hell, even arguments on why crows caw don't seem to change anybody's mind.) <br /><br />We have our say with our posts, and you have yours. Fortunately for the professor business, a century from now our academic descendants will be carrying on over the same issues--and whether we acted well or badly, and whether it made any difference.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-84531390021655665992011-06-21T22:42:13.215-04:002011-06-21T22:42:13.215-04:00Nice article, Ken, but no support for your "f...Nice article, Ken, but no support for your "fact." I was at a conference for a few days with Raine in the late 1980s, and it was apparent then that he would be a star.<br /><br /><br />HenryHenry Harpendingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-57946722616927435092011-06-21T13:34:15.361-04:002011-06-21T13:34:15.361-04:00Is the train out of the station? http://chronicle...Is the train out of the station? http://chronicle.com/article/Can-This-Man-Predict-Whether/127792/<br /><br />"If you knew wouldn't you want to do something about it?"Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-1912555388030920212011-06-20T15:55:10.380-04:002011-06-20T15:55:10.380-04:00"....the acknowledged fact that environments ..."....the acknowledged fact that environments can modify that probability tend to be swept away, .."<br /><br />Ken can you cite any evidence in support of this "fact?"<br /><br />HenryHenry Harpendingnoreply@blogger.com