there are some actually-good refutations of it floating around now, but I don't recall seeing anything that really dug in until the last few years - the nazis have had a long time to propagandize in those circles
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scott managed to refrain from outright endorsing lynn until this year i think. his people love lynn but he personally knew to keep his hands clean. i assume he's totally audience captured now tbh
aug 25, 2025, 6:21 pm • 14 0 • view
i also really like the more general arguments because they are, well, more general. if someone cites lynn they're a crank idiot, period. if someone goes digging through The Bell Curve and decides to defend literally every thing said in that book, the general principles are required
aug 25, 2025, 6:22 pm • 10 0 • view
him making that endorsement post directly caused my break with rationalism lmao
aug 30, 2025, 9:32 pm • 2 0 • view
i remember this and it left a strong impression on me
aug 30, 2025, 9:33 pm • 1 0 • view
yeah - the whole atittude toward it is weirdly anti-scientific and incurious; "this entire nation is, on average, clinically mentally retarded" is an outrageous claim which you should be seeking much more data to either refute or investigate the cause of, and instead they lean on crap studies with..
aug 25, 2025, 6:23 pm • 9 0 • view
...obvious problems and tiny sample sizes to support it and continue on their merry way acting like they treat it as a dogmatically established fact that they know and the terrible liberals are ignorant of
aug 25, 2025, 6:24 pm • 10 0 • view
it's such incredibly obviously motivated reasoning, man
aug 25, 2025, 6:25 pm • 9 0 • view
the Stat piece from last year was fantastic Journals should retract Richard Lynn's racist 'research' articles | STAT share.google/lfbUBaPqc1nn...
aug 25, 2025, 6:34 pm • 4 0 • view
Yeah, that's one of the ones I was thinking of. Non-surveilled link: www.statnews.com/2024/06/20/r...
aug 25, 2025, 6:35 pm • 4 0 • view