In today's liberal arts and social sciences there is a bias to "what should be rather than what is." This in itself is noble. The fatal flaw in this paradigm, however, is that academics present and discuss and teach and research a fantasy world about as real as Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian or Inner World series. People who look at the real world are not welcome. This includes Richard Lynn who was recently stripped of his Professor Emeritus status by the University of Ulster.
So what did Lynn do? He published 328 pages with 74 pages of bibliography establishing the fact that in the real world there are ten racial groups and as a result of thousands of years of environmental influences they have developed different cultures and resulting differences in intelligence. He does this in a lucid, easy to read manner as he takes the dear reader around the world documenting his thesis and occassionally throwing out interesting tidbits, e.g. the Tasmanians are the only people who never discovered a means to make fire. At the conclusion Lynn delivers the haymaker that those people who acknowledge racial differences in blood types, susceptibility to diseases, and so on but then say that dispite this all races have evolved exactly equal intelligence ". . .must either be totally ignorant of the basic principles of evolutionary biology or else have a political agenda to deny the importance of race."
Now for a couple of fun things. Perhaps the greatest editorial slip I've seen comes on page 316 where reference is made to Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germans, and Steel." Also Lynn writes of the evolution of animal intelligence and sees squirrels as one of the most intelligent mammals. That seals the deal. Lynn knows about the real world.
Lynn's book is very highly recommended.
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