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   Message 1,881 of 3,290   
   Brian M. Scott to All   
   Re: Argument from authority [was: When i   
   29 Nov 08 01:00:16   
   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:04:38 +1000, Aqua   
    wrote in   
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   rec.arts.sf.misc:   
      
   > Gerry Quinn wrote:   
      
   [...]   
      
   >> My objections are not to any rational critique of the role or   
   >> methodology of IQ, but to propagandistic attemps to denigrate any   
   >> attempt to study or discuss such matters, in the interest of a pre-   
   >> developed politically correct thesis about human nature.  Which is what   
   >> you're doing, and why you can't propose any reasonable arguments.   
      
   > Huh?  Do you know _anything_ about cognitive science?  IQ is old   
   > science, 1950s at the latest.  [...]   
      
   It's even old science *fiction*: Wilmar H. Shiras' _Children   
   of the Atom_ is the classic, but a lot of J.T. M'Intosh   
   belongs here, and there are plenty more of that vintage.   
      
   Brian   
      
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