Is It The Truth? Or Not?

"The truth hurts" - Anonymous

Scientific enquiry is about searching for truth not making people feel good about themselves.

Selywn Duke's take on the recent fuss over the geneticist, James Watson, who caused a stir by claiming research data shows those in Africa aren't as intellectually capable as other groups.

The thing that gets me about the PC police & the left-leanign mindset on issues like this is the skewing of semantics & the meanings of words into something the man did not say. The Left & the PC cops would have you think that Watson said something to the affect of "Africans/Blacks are intellectually incapable compared to other races, not as intellectually capable," which is a huge difference.

If you interpret that he said the former you basically read it as "Africans/Blacks are stupid." If you interpret the latter you read it as "Africans/Blacks on the whole are generally less capable intellectually." Which to most I'm sure still sounds as daming as saying "Africans/Blacks are stupid." But let's hold on for a minute.

Say hypothetically, you take an infinite # of tests which measure intellectual capacity of certain races as a quantifiable # & for the sake of the argument it comes out something like this:

1. Asians, 98
2. Native American, 97
3. White, 95
4. Arab, 94
5. Hispanic, 93
6. African, 92

Now, this list shows hypothetically that some races are more intellectually capable than others, but if we assign a test like score to these hypothetical results, everyone gets an "A" or is intellectual capable as a whole but not as capable compared to each other. So for once, we need to back up & really think about what people say & understand what they mean rather than always jump to the PC, feeling friendly conclusion & the ever ready leap to outrage.

Put this another way, if what James Watson said about possible intellectual differences amongst the races bothers you, turn it on yourself & see if you agree or disagree with statements such as "Asians are better at math," "White Men Can't Jump," "Latin lover," etc. etc.

P.S. I like the point Selwyn Duke makes in his article about how people will argue about how evolution supposedly causes groups in different environments to develop genetic differences except in humans' case & that the reason for this would be a good argument for the existence of God.