More academic work, unpublished again.
Secular Rise in Black IQ and Head Size: Evidence For a Eugenic Effect
From the abstract:
Dramatic head size increases in Blacks and Whites in the modern era argue for selective and eugenic breeding for both races.
Ok now I see what the woke idiots were screaming about. As soon as this paper came out, they started screaming,
Eugenics! Lindsay supports eugenics!
Well, if you mean talented and gifted people preferentially breeding with each other, sure. If you mean stopping problematic people from breeding, I don’t think we can do that as a matter of moral philosophy.
It’s inhumane. However, we already prevent retarded people from breeding, so prevention of breeding per se is not necessarily a problem.
I do however support parental licenses which can be revoked in the case of utterly inept parenting, assuming we could do this fairly and in a non-corrupt manner, which I admit is dubious.
Anyway this article says nothing about my views on eugenics. It simply…
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