Bravo to Metcalf for this brutal and informed take-down of Saletan's crap work.

I say this as someone who has long admired Saletan's inquisitiveness and willingness to take argumentative risks. But these things are different from sheer laziness in research. Before publishing such an inevitably inflammatory series, Saletan should have read everything about this that he could get his hands on, including -- as Metcalf notes -- thoroughly investigating the ties of those who argue on behalf of racial differences.

I will no longer take it on faith that Saletan is a reliable writer. This was such a gross mistake that it discredits him for sometime, if not forever. He was so eager to be controversial and to spit in the eye of his liberal friends that he dispensed with good sense and solid research.

Shame on you, Mr. Saletan. You should do the decent thing and resign from your post at Slate. After writing a lengthy apology to black people.