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[AsiaTraveller]

Yep, the jeddah racist had the same M.O. as "waltertoo":

Post a link. Paste an excerpt from the Internet about some whacko, loony-tunes racist or misogynist topic. Then let the fun begin.

[Stephen Jones]

So Jeddahteacher is now Dammamteacher. Possible.

Incidentally the 'refutation' referred to is to the 'public policy implications' of the research, not to the claim that the different groups analyzed do have a different mean IQ and that that difference is at least partially based on hereditary characteristics.

[marblez]

At least it is not the infamous 'kia', who 'blessed' us with millions upon millions of threads pertaining to all subjects, from false qualifications to arguing over the availability of (North American) mint gum in rural Indonesia!

[Aramas]

It's only a matter of time before someone publishes a learned treatise on the similarity of head bump patterns amongst 'suspected terrorists' (ie people guilty of being in the wrong place at the wrong time) in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they have a lot more bumps than the general population

Bring back pseudo-sciences! If presidents can invade foreign countries on the advice of astrologists, tea-leaf readers, economists and other charlatans then it must be real, right?

[Stephen Jones]

The influence of genetic factors on intelligence and behaviour is hardly pseudo-science.

Two new and well-written books on the subject are "Nature v Nurture" by Matt Ridley, and "The Blank Slate" by Stephen Pinker.

Ridley is a mainstream science writer specializing in evolution, and Pinker is a linguist and cognitive psychologist.