{"id":438,"date":"2014-05-14T12:49:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T12:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genotopia.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2014-05-14T12:49:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T12:49:24","slug":"a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/","title":{"rendered":"A Troublesome Book on Inheritance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With organizing a conference this week, I haven&#8217;t had time yet to read Nicholas Wade&#8217;s new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Troublesome-Inheritance-Genes-Human-History\/dp\/1594204462\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Troublesome Inheritance,<\/em><\/a> but the reviews are kind of stunning. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/science\/2014\/05\/troublesome_inheritance_critique_nicholas_wade_s_dated_assumptions_about.html\" target=\"_blank\">one from Slate<\/a>. Basically, genetics has proven that blacks are dumber than whites and whites are dumber than Asians, and those left-wing humanities baddies are trying to suppress these uncomfortable truths.<\/p>\n<p>Oooooh, I haven&#8217;t heard such trenchant criticism since&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bell-Curve-Intelligence-Structure-Paperbacks\/dp\/0684824299\" target=\"_blank\">The Bell Curve<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51iCoWIekpL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With organizing a conference this week, I haven&#8217;t had time yet to read Nicholas Wade&#8217;s new book, A Troublesome Inheritance, but the reviews are kind of stunning. Here&#8217;s one from Slate. Basically, genetics has proven that blacks are dumber than whites and whites are dumber than Asians, and those left-wing humanities baddies are trying to &#8230; <a title=\"A Troublesome Book on Inheritance\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Troublesome Book on Inheritance\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Troublesome Book on Inheritance - Genotopia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Troublesome Book on Inheritance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With organizing a conference this week, I haven&#8217;t had time yet to read Nicholas Wade&#8217;s new book, A Troublesome Inheritance, but the reviews are kind of stunning. Here&#8217;s one from Slate. Basically, genetics has proven that blacks are dumber than whites and whites are dumber than Asians, and those left-wing humanities baddies are trying to ... Read more\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Genotopia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-05-14T12:49:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51iCoWIekpL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nathaniel Comfort\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nathaniel Comfort\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/438\\\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/438\\\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nathaniel Comfort\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1678c350e13f229dfc3ce10d37d5ef41\"},\"headline\":\"A Troublesome Book on Inheritance\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-05-14T12:49:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/438\\\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":80,\"commentCount\":13,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/438\\\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/ecx.images-amazon.com\\\/images\\\/I\\\/51iCoWIekpL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/438\\\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\\\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2014\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/438\\\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/438\\\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\\\/\",\"name\":\"A Troublesome Book on Inheritance - Genotopia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/438\\\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/438\\\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/ecx.images-amazon.com\\\/images\\\/I\\\/51iCoWIekpL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-05-14T12:49:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1678c350e13f229dfc3ce10d37d5ef41\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/438\\\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/438\\\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/438\\\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/ecx.images-amazon.com\\\/images\\\/I\\\/51iCoWIekpL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/ecx.images-amazon.com\\\/images\\\/I\\\/51iCoWIekpL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/438\\\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"A Troublesome Book on Inheritance\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/\",\"name\":\"Genotopia\",\"description\":\"Here Lies Truth\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1678c350e13f229dfc3ce10d37d5ef41\",\"name\":\"Nathaniel Comfort\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/92625f3c761b7e3f723c76a73bc4328259839fbe8530a221b68040b9b4483a99?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/92625f3c761b7e3f723c76a73bc4328259839fbe8530a221b68040b9b4483a99?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/92625f3c761b7e3f723c76a73bc4328259839fbe8530a221b68040b9b4483a99?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Nathaniel Comfort\"},\"description\":\"Nathaniel Comfort is a professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University. From 1997 to 2002, he was on the history faculty at The George Washington University, where he also served as Deputy Director of the Center for History of Recent Science. The Center\u2019s director and founder was Horace Freeland Judson (The Eighth Day of Creation), who, along with John McPhee and Monty Python, Comfort considers among his biggest writing influences. Comfort\u2019s books include The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine (Yale, 2012), The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock\u2019s Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control (Harvard, 2001), and the edited volume, The Panda\u2019s Black Box: Opening Up the Intelligent Design Debate (Johns Hopkins, 2007). In addition to scholarly articles, he has written for Natural History, the New York Times Book Review, National Public Radio, Nature, Science, New Scientist, The Believer, and other publications. Should he expire tomorrow, he would be survived, in decreasing size order, by a son, a wife, a daughter, a dog, a cat, another cat, and still another cat.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/genotopia.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/genotopia\\\/author\\\/genotopia\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"A Troublesome Book on Inheritance - Genotopia","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"A Troublesome Book on Inheritance","og_description":"With organizing a conference this week, I haven&#8217;t had time yet to read Nicholas Wade&#8217;s new book, A Troublesome Inheritance, but the reviews are kind of stunning. Here&#8217;s one from Slate. Basically, genetics has proven that blacks are dumber than whites and whites are dumber than Asians, and those left-wing humanities baddies are trying to ... Read more","og_url":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/","og_site_name":"Genotopia","article_published_time":"2014-05-14T12:49:24+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51iCoWIekpL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Nathaniel Comfort","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nathaniel Comfort"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/"},"author":{"name":"Nathaniel Comfort","@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/#\/schema\/person\/1678c350e13f229dfc3ce10d37d5ef41"},"headline":"A Troublesome Book on Inheritance","datePublished":"2014-05-14T12:49:24+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/"},"wordCount":80,"commentCount":13,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51iCoWIekpL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2014","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/","url":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/","name":"A Troublesome Book on Inheritance - Genotopia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51iCoWIekpL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg","datePublished":"2014-05-14T12:49:24+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/#\/schema\/person\/1678c350e13f229dfc3ce10d37d5ef41"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51iCoWIekpL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51iCoWIekpL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/438\/a-troublesome-book-on-inheritance\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"A Troublesome Book on Inheritance"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/","name":"Genotopia","description":"Here Lies Truth","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/#\/schema\/person\/1678c350e13f229dfc3ce10d37d5ef41","name":"Nathaniel Comfort","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/92625f3c761b7e3f723c76a73bc4328259839fbe8530a221b68040b9b4483a99?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/92625f3c761b7e3f723c76a73bc4328259839fbe8530a221b68040b9b4483a99?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/92625f3c761b7e3f723c76a73bc4328259839fbe8530a221b68040b9b4483a99?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Nathaniel Comfort"},"description":"Nathaniel Comfort is a professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University. From 1997 to 2002, he was on the history faculty at The George Washington University, where he also served as Deputy Director of the Center for History of Recent Science. The Center\u2019s director and founder was Horace Freeland Judson (The Eighth Day of Creation), who, along with John McPhee and Monty Python, Comfort considers among his biggest writing influences. Comfort\u2019s books include The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine (Yale, 2012), The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock\u2019s Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control (Harvard, 2001), and the edited volume, The Panda\u2019s Black Box: Opening Up the Intelligent Design Debate (Johns Hopkins, 2007). In addition to scholarly articles, he has written for Natural History, the New York Times Book Review, National Public Radio, Nature, Science, New Scientist, The Believer, and other publications. Should he expire tomorrow, he would be survived, in decreasing size order, by a son, a wife, a daughter, a dog, a cat, another cat, and still another cat.","sameAs":["http:\/\/genotopia.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com"],"url":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/author\/genotopia\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgtNP1-74","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}