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I followed the links and this is real. A state department official who is an open advocate of the worst kind of of eugenics. "Low quality humans." The network around Trumpism, "race science," alt.right Nazism, and eugenics is truly frightening.

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New blog post: The GWAS of Divorce Arrives! ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/the-gwas-o... @torkildl.bsky.social @rosacheesman.bsky.social

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With all the foolish talk about IQ floating around these days, I thought people might be interested in a couple of blog posts suggesting a sane way to think about it. (It's basically a precis of a chapter on the subject in my book.)

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One thing I haven't heard said about the stupid "Gulf of America" business is that Mexico IS America. In my world, when I get lazy and use America to mean the United States my editors correct me, reminding me to either refer to the US, or North America, or whatever I specifically mean.

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A temperamental difference is which you find more annoying: someone observing that parents who speak in complex sentences have kids who do better in school, and recommend parental language training, or people who see rMZ=.6, rDZ=.2 for FFM and conclude, personality is largely genetically determined.

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This is Stage 1. Stage 2 will be observing that enshittified public agencies don't perform decent service, and therefore need to be privatized.

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This is a response to Erik Parens' excellent review of my book, that I published at ELSIhub.org. I thought I would reproduce it on my Substack. Erik's essay is linked, so you can read that too. Scientific Dualisms.

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Sunday cleanup question: What do people do with paper instruction booklets for appliances and electronics? File them neatly away, or figure if you ever need it you can find a pdf? I have drawers full of them. It would be nice if manufacturers printed a QR code next to the serial number.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Nice to see a few notices on Goodreads. You could leave a note there if you have read the book.

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As good an essay on this subject as I have read. Clinically humane, scientifically realistic, and intellectually humble.

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Scientific Dualisms ☯️ The friendship banter continues!😃🤝 NEW @elsihub.bsky.social article by @ent3c.bsky.social, in response to HC Senior Research Scholar, Erik Parens review of Turkheimer’s new book on behavioral genetics. READ, elsihub.org/news/scienti... #hastingscenter #bioethics

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Will buy a cold beverage for a report on what Robert has to say about it. 😂 Thanks for the kind words.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

OK, Are "meme coins" supposed to make sense?

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

My interview with the indispensable @awaisaftab.bsky.social has been published. Challenging questions, gave me a lot of ideas to chew on. Got me thinking about how different the scientific politics of individual differences (like IQ) are from psychiatric genetics.

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How to Diagnose Abhorrent Science, from @lucasjmatthews.bsky.social, James Tabery and @ent3c.bsky.social in The Hastings Center Report. Read here:

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My response to Erik Parens’ essay about my book is up at ELSIhub, accompanied by a nice picture of me from twenty years ago. elsihub.org/news/scienti...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

No better compliment than having really gotten someone thinking. I will comment an particulars when I have had time to digest.

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Thanks to @awaisaftab.bsky.social the entire sequence of Spit for Science papers is open access for the next month. The original paper, six comments, and our reply. If I may say so it would make for a good journal club. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54083

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Interesting to see GWAS working well, in a physical trait in dogs, with some crossover to humans. My golden is due for her second ACL surgery in two weeks. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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The complete set of papers about Spit for Science is now available (paywalled). My original essay with Sarah Rodock Greer, comments by @stevendowns.bsky.social et al, @awaisaftab.bsky.social, John Sadler, Robert Cloninger, and @drdanielledick.bsky.social. Then a reply from us.

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Someone just pointed out the first plain error in my book. Jay Lush spent his career at Iowa State, not the University of Iowa. I knew that, just brain farted when I wrote the sentence. Oh well.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Not sure why this post is turning up now... it's from March 2023. Interesting to notice how enthusiasm for Precision Education (tm) has cooled in the interim. The big reason: the only way this would make sense is to base it on the within-family PGS, which is like 3% of the variance.

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Thanks. I put off posting about this until after the holiday. Will do tomorrow, hopefully. This after my book was release November 6....

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Merry Xmas, everyone. As a Chinese food and movie celebrator who has been a Bob stan for a lifetime and hates conventional biopics, I approach this with ambivalence. Plus, I'm Not There was already a near-perfect unconventional biopic.

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Erik Parens' review/essay about my book has been linked on the 3quarksdaily website, which I didn't know about and is an interesting place to find diverse articles.

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I'm really enjoying reading @ent3c.bsky.social 's new book on the Nature Nurture Debate! It really is a superb read. Very clear, very engaging, very funny. Full of insights that make complex topics easy to understand. Highly recommend! www.amazon.com/Understandin...

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I haven't heard much about my book from my scientific "right." Either the race-hereditarian people, or the BGA establishment and the Plomin school. Especially in the latter cases I mean that in a positive way: I am genuinely curious what people think.

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

A lovely essay and review of my book by Erik Parens, of the @hastingscenter.bsky.social. Erik disagrees, gently, with the basis for my pessimism about the prospects for genetic explanation of human differences. /1

submitted 73 days ago • 8 comments

A Critical Introduction to Behavioral Genetics: Q&A with Sasha Gusev ( @sashagusevposts.bsky.social ) www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-critical...

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