Forbidden Research

[MacTheKnife]

How the study of intelligence is crippled by ideology .

Communicating intelligence research: Media misrepresentation, the Gould effect, and unexpected forces” by Michael A. Woodley and others chronicles an intellectual culture in collapse and a poisonous climate in higher education that has rendered facts irrelevant. “Facts are stubborn things,” said John Adams. “Whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” Unfortunately, wishes, inclinations, and above all passion blind many to the facts. So it is with the study of intelligence, the authors report. “Unlike most academics,” they write, “scientists in this field often find themselves in the court of public opinion merely for carrying out their work, largely or entirely because their findings have a tendency to collide with certain deeply held moral and political beliefs.”


Forbidden Research - American Renaissance

 

[Picaro]

Sounds like just another pseudo-intellectual 'rationalist' whining about morals and traditions, as if those aren't intelligent concepts. F A. Hayek's book title The Fatal Conceit gives a name to this mentality, and also a fine deconstruction of 'rationalism' and its inherent flaws, and why Christianity and 'traditionalism'' do a much better job at promoting positive and more social constructs. Constructive 'Rationalists' with political dominance in a state just end up resorting to mass murders, deluges of mindless propaganda, and paranoid regimes.

The part about 'facts and evidence' is particularly funny, since no one can ever know most of those that play a part in any action, much less their results. Nobody knows everything. Even the practice of empiricism and empirical method is a philosophy, not a 'natural fact'. And then we know a lot of 'scientists' can be paid to lie, and do so all the time.

 

[MacTheKnife]

Sounds like just another pseudo-intellectual 'rationalist' whining about morals and traditions, as if those aren't intelligent concepts. F A. Hayek's book title The Fatal Conceit gives a name to this mentality, and also a fine deconstruction of 'rationalism' and its inherent flaws, and why Christianity and 'traditionalism'' do a much better job at promoting positive and more social constructs. Constructive 'Rationalists' with political dominance in a state just end up resorting to mass murders, deluges of mindless propaganda, and paranoid regimes.

The part about 'facts and evidence' is particularly funny, since no one can ever know most of those that play a part in any action, much less their results. Nobody knows everything. Even the practice of empiricism and empirical method is a philosophy, not a 'natural fact'. And then we know a lot of 'scientists' can be paid to lie, and do so all the time.

No---The authors argue the “controversalization” of intelligence research began in the 1960s with the assault of Arthur Jensen’s work on race and intelligence. The useful term “controversalization,” as coined by journalist Robert Parry, is “the political tactic of utilizing positions of social influence (such as media) to make an opposing position seem more controversial than it actually is in order to marginalize it.” In this case, the obscurantists attacking Jensen claimed “IQ research is ideologically motivated by a desire to justify racial and other inequalities.” The authors write that this led to a chilling effect on research as universities refused to offer courses on intelligence research “for fear of causing offense.”