So, what this guy is saying is that being politically correct is more important than good scientific procedure & argument.
According to Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, "It would be hard to overstate how politically incorrect this paper is... [though] it's certainly a thorough and well-argued paper, not one that can easily be dismissed outright."
Take a different example...
If (HUGE IF) you can show than allowing for all factors (Very Difficult) that Etheopians run faster than Europeans, is the conculsion invalid because it's racist ? Or would it mean in this PC world that we should give Europeans a head start in any Marathon where there are Etheopians running ?
I'm not sure of the immediate use for their research, but in general all knowledge about genetics has the possibity to lead cures, and to at some stage in the future, embyro selection.
Anyone want to see where that goes ?
Pump fed HydroElectric stations like Turlough Hill (built 1968 in Ireland) use excess grid power to pump water up hill to a lake. During high demand, you have a hydro electric station pumping out nearly 300 MegaWatts
I don't imagine it's very efficent, but it's an effective way of storing bulk energy.
Perhaps, if someone goes out in the woods without any survival equipment, without a map and compass, or without having a clue how to use it, then, perhaps, Darwin should get them.
Or perhaps we should save them and have a world populated by the offspring of STUPID PEOPLE
At one stage in the UK it was illegal to transmit interviews with Jerry Adams (Nationalist Politicion, possibly linked to Republican Terrorism, depending on which side your on). This led to the Farcical (sp?) situation where the TV & Radio stations had an actor with a similar voice and accent reading out Adams' lines in the aired version of the interviews.
Ain't laws Grand.
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According to Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, "It would be hard to overstate how politically incorrect this paper is... [though] it's certainly a thorough and well-argued paper, not one that can easily be dismissed outright."
Take a different example...
If (HUGE IF) you can show than allowing for all factors (Very Difficult) that Etheopians run faster than Europeans, is the conculsion invalid because it's racist ? Or would it mean in this PC world that we should give Europeans a head start in any Marathon where there are Etheopians running ?
I'm not sure of the immediate use for their research, but in general all knowledge about genetics has the possibity to lead cures, and to at some stage in the future, embyro selection.
Anyone want to see where that goes ?
I don't imagine it's very efficent, but it's an effective way of storing bulk energy.
http://www.esb.ie/main/about_esb/history_turlough. jsp
http://www.esb.ie/main/about_esb/power_stations_in tro.jsp
Perhaps, if someone goes out in the woods without any survival equipment, without a map and compass, or without having a clue how to use it, then, perhaps, Darwin should get them. Or perhaps we should save them and have a world populated by the offspring of STUPID PEOPLE
At one stage in the UK it was illegal to transmit interviews with Jerry Adams (Nationalist Politicion, possibly linked to Republican Terrorism, depending on which side your on). This led to the Farcical (sp?) situation where the TV & Radio stations had an actor with a similar voice and accent reading out Adams' lines in the aired version of the interviews. Ain't laws Grand.