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Thanks for responding. Some comments: “values matter and how you raise your kids matters” Behavioral genetics studies show that this intuitive idea is false (at least within developed countries like the US and the UK). In adulthood, adopted children resemble their biological parents, not their adoptive parents. Assuming you aren’t raised in a crack house or dropped on your head, parenting style has no detectable effect on outcomes like adult IQ. “Cofnas is already assuming that clever = morally good. He’s also saying clever + a belief in race science = definitely morally good.” To refute this straw man you cite a list of (supposedly) high-IQ Nazis who were not morally good. First, I don’t believe that IQ + race science = definitely morally good. Second, the Nazis were pseudoscientists who rejected Darwinism in favor of a creation story called “world ice theory.” They also rejected IQ testing. So the Nazis do not show what happens if we take a scientific perspective on race. You spend a long time giving an ad hoc explanation for why the plight of the Congo is due to “exploitation [and] colonialism [and] extermination of millions of people.” You even blame their civil war on distant white people. Two points: First, why does *every* sub-Saharan African country (or country populated by sub-Saharan Africans) have similar outcomes to the Congo? This includes Ethiopia, which, besides a 6-year occupation by Italy, was never colonized at all. Second, Africans are not the only people who have suffered in horrible ways. If a history of genocide, colonialism, and brutality affect IQ, why do Jews and Koreans score higher than British whites? You attribute lower African American IQ to “400 years of slavery, segregation, the general Jim Crow environment, red lining, not to mention welfare and all that has followed since like poor schooling, huge crime rates.” This speaks to my point that, if you reject hereditarianism, the best explanation for lower black IQ is past or present white racism. Wokism is inevitable. You cite Thomas Sowell saying that we shouldn’t take IQ seriously because Jews used to score low and then started scoring high. (See my essay, “Thomas Sowell’s Wishful Thinking about Race.”) In 1923, American psychologist Carl Brigham argued that, although Jews are stereotyped as intelligent, some fresh-off-the-boat Yiddish speakers bombed an IQ test administered in English, therefore their IQ is actually low. His book was panned by his peers. In 1930, Brigham recanted, referring to his own previous statement about Jewish IQ as “pretentious” and “without foundation.” Nevertheless, 100 years later, Sowell is still attempting to discredit IQ testing by citing that one stupid mistake. “orphaned black children raised by white richer families end up having above-average IQs.” False. Adoption only affects childhood IQ, when the heritability of IQ is low. By adulthood, African Americans who were raised by white adoptive parents have average IQs roughly equal to the African American mean. “You can also look at those people who say race science is key to understanding the world and similarly think, ‘I don’t want this. This is also a total dead end, which ends up removing the equal moral dignity of the individual, too.’” This is how many people react to race science: “I don’t want this” because it has bad moral implications. But race science is key to understanding the world whether or not we want it to be.