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  • body parts

    I'm NOT knocking the medical advances. I AM knocking the military's apparent motivation. To believe ANY military body actually puts a value on relieving human suffering, EXCEPT to have enough superiority of cannon fodder, is very naive. ''Today's permanent wound will be tomorrow's bad memory. Blow off our fingers, and we'll grow them back....'' ...
    Posted to Human Nature by kenforst on April 21, 2008

  • "Hole"ly Inappropriate

    I choose to be offended by the objectifying, denigrating, irreverance of Saletan's title. A 'hole' is a nondescript void in an otherwise solid mass or plane. Philosophically, a 'hole' offers no meaning, no value, only the absence of meaning and value. However, in applying this void to a context, it serves to denigrate. 'A hole in the head'- ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Usama2 on February 23, 2008

  • Re: Let's go waterboarding

    RainMan: Swiftboating is permanently ingrained in our lexicon as a tool for truth and good. Jack You have water on the brain if you believe that, Jack. No one familiar with the term ''swiftboating'' thinks it's ''a tool for truth and good.'' Even other ring wingers associate the term with lying, misrepresentation and character ...
    Posted to Best of the Fray by Ted Burke on February 18, 2008

  • Its the IDEA behind the Systemic Problem, friend

    Usama2: ''... America... decriminalized all sex outside of marriage. You made all sex a public choice. You virtually removed all moral, religious, and ethical standards surrounding sex, except consent. You ignored the complimentary nature of the sexes, attempting to claim each sex is merely identical: as if Woman was just Aw and man was Am, ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Usama2 on January 28, 2008

  • Ethnic IQ The big picture

    Ethnic IQ and The Case for Diversity Most of the posters to this topic on Slate and in The Fray still don’t seem to get the big picture. They don’t seem to have enough knowledge of history and anthropology to put the theories under discussion to the test of time. They still don’t seem to understand the implications of the science of large numbers ...
    Posted to The Dilettante by brerlou on December 10, 2007

  • a connection between race and IQ is impossible

    I'm glad this new piece breaks down Saletan's terrible garbage. But there is a point missing which bothers me: If I told you that people who's phone numbers end in an odd digit have higher IQs than those with an even number you would ask how that could possibly be. The traits we use to denote race -- skin color, eye shape, hair texture and nose ...
    Posted to The Dilettante by willep on December 4, 2007

  • Saletan Should Resign

    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 ...
    Posted to The Dilettante by UNCgump on December 4, 2007

  • Re: Blacks are genetically superior in...

    Your sports analogy completely blows up when you look at a sport that controls for both heredity and environment -- soccer. In that sport, the world's top athletes come from a wide variety of ethnic, socio-economic and geographic backgrounds. The world's current best player, Kaka, is an upper-middle class white Brazilian with obvious European ...
    Posted to The Dilettante by jfurf on December 4, 2007

  • Re: Why?

    I'd suggest ''Guns, Germs, and Steel'' by Jared Diamond. As he explains, many of the diseases that tend to be the worst killers are those with a non-human reservoir host, because even if an outbreak burns itself out by killing nearly everyone exposed, the pathogens remain in the host species, ready to cross the species barrier later on. He also ...
    Posted to The Dilettante by RWC on December 4, 2007

  • Race does not exist

    Metcalfe's article is very good so far as it goes, but unfortunately it doesn't go far enough. The key point is that 'race', in the sense used by Saletan, is nonsense. The genetics and history are fairly simple. Black and white Americans are the product of several hundred years of population mixing. The way it goes is that some of the genetic ...
    Posted to The Dilettante by anarch on December 4, 2007
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