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Title
Confessions of a “Scientific Racist:” Commentary on Bird, Jackson, and Winston (2024)
Abstract
Abstract
Here I provide commentary on Bird, Jackson, and Winston’s (2024) recent article as published in American Psychologist (2024). In brief, I argue that that Bird et al. represent activism not science, and that their “recommendations” constitute censorship rather than the fostering of robust and wide-open debate on a topic that is especially critical in the USA: The existence of large and persistent race group differences in human well-being. I conclude that we cannot solve a problem—especially one this important—until we understand what is causing it, and that Bird et al.’s short-sighted recommendations only serve to foment ignorance.
Keywords
and Winston (2024); well-being; race; hereditarianism; scientific racism,
Jackson,
Bird