https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1051277271099674625
I really have to wonder if Pinker even bothered to read LG’s SPLC page or if he just dismissed it out of hand. Some really choice material there https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/linda-gottfredson
I guess in Pinkers mind, calling the racial penis guy a “gentlemen and a scholar” and dedicating an entire article to defending him is just a normal non-racist thing to do https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b74e/48d69ab19fef03ee9e443e0e6277692b12df.pdf (the article doesn’t even try to hide how racist it is lol)
Here’s LG in an interview with literal alt-righter Stefan Molyneux talking about the “tribes of man” starting at 1:16:55 https://youtu.be/CZPsXYo7gpc?t=4615 Again, not even trying to hide the visceral disgusting racism.
And OF COURSE she accepted a bunch of money from the Pioneer Fund. Did you really expect anything different? Actually here she is in the comments of the Steven Pinker-linked Quillette article defending them:
Wikipedia is about as biased as the Southern Poverty Law Center when it comes to human variation in intelligence. Hardly an appropriate source for the research or researchers on intelligence. Or on the Pioneer Fund.
A factual error in your post: Harry Wehyer was the long-tjme president of the Pioneer Fund. Rushton took over when Harry passed away.
A lawyer, Harry worked for John Marshall Harlan in New York before he was elevated to the US Supreme Court. Harry was a gentleman of the highest order. When I met him in the 1980s, he was funding some of the most renowned psychologists of the 20th century for studies they could not get funded elsewhere –like Tom Bouchard’s now-famous studies of identical twins reared apart.
See my online vita for my festshrift articles for three: Phil Rushton, Art Jensen and Hans Eysenck.
There are various books and articles purporting to “expose” the Pioneer Fund. They consist mostly of recycled falsehoods, innuendo and circular citation. I know, because some colleagues and I did the historical research the Fund’s detractors never have. Did it in late 1980s when my university invoked my Pioneer-funded research in an attempt to block my Pioneer funding and fire me. We checked out all charges against the Fund. Harry Weyher searched the Fund’s files for us, from its founding. He was good and honorable man.
By all means challenge ideas you not accept! But please do so with empirical evidence, not ad hominem critiques. Thanks.”
I’m sure people could find even more but I’m sick of looking at this crap. Someone tell Pinker he’s a fucking moron.
I get the feeling Pinker is just waiting for his academic career to wain to show his power level.
I thought it was known that Pinker is a really savvy race realist. Man, the craziest part is that his super racist interview with Razib Khan was scrubbed from the internet. I don’t think you could have read “10 questions for Steven Pinker” and left not believing that Pinker is a race realist. He seems to wholeheartedly believe in race-realism, but he is extremely wary as he could lose the favour of NPR liberals.
I’m really fucking embarrassed that I used to be a big fan of this guy.
I just want to note that they have the same hair. Coincidence???
I stumbled across Linda Gottfredson when doing some research on intelligence last year. Her writing gives the impression that she sees herself as some sort of brave, uncompromising fighter for truth who is being laughed at by Big Biased Academia for standing up for the idea that blacks are less intelligent due to genetics.
I don’t.