It is a travesty that you allowed William Saletan to publish these pieces on Race (vis a vis IQ) with his only sources being controversial researchers funded by the Pioneer Fund. If he had mentioned this fact, and acknowledged that this group has a history of racism and participation in eugenics, it would only have been offensive. But to pass off the works of people who would deign to appear at racists conventions like Jared Taylor's American Renaissance conference as even remotely objective, is more than misleading. It is tantamount to promoting their agenda.

Saletan's presentations are basically a word for word reporting of the tripe that passes for knowledge on the "race realist" websites across the net. The fact that many of them have recently become neutral on the issue of Jews, has brought many latent Jewish racists (possibly including Saletan) into their fold. This has done much to spit-shine their image, and present a more academic front to their hate. I expected much more from Slate than this, though.

Just google AmRen and you will see that J. Phillipe Rushton, Richard Lynn and a good many of the people quoted by Saletan have been featured speakers at these conferences where over half of the attendees are neo nazis. David Duke himself co-opted their most recent convention and spent the entire time denouncing Jews and denying the holocaust. If William Saletan feels good about associating himself with these cretins, fine. But your magazine should fire him and distance yourself from his ilk. He can always go to write for Inverted World, American Renaissance, or Gene Expression.

Sandra