The New York Times and apparently all of polite society was in a tizzy late last month after learning that “fringe” researchers had “gained access” to National Institutes of Health data from thousands of children and, according to reporter Mike McIntire, “used it to produce at least 16 papers purporting to find biological evidence for differences in intelligence between races, ranking ethnicities by I.Q. scores and suggesting Black people earn less because they are not very smart.”

As has been the case with the ‘IQ question’ for decades, the approach used by the media and political establishment, and the NYT here, is to, without offering a shred of reasoning or evidence, simply malign and dismiss research into the topic as “biased and unscientific” and not approved by “mainstream geneticists.” Yet, it was obvious the outlet was disturbed by the “fringe” researchers’ reliance on the “prominent” Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study because it “gave their theories an air of analytical rigor.” Oh, the horror!

Sadly for these effeminate hand-wringers, the Overton Window, or the range of allowable discussion, has shifted much further to the right, and the truth, since co-DNA discoverer and Nobel Prize winner James Watson was cancelled in 2007 for daring to speak frankly about race and intelligence. Now, in no small part thanks to Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the topic is widely discussed and debated, and race realists like Jared Taylor, Steve Sailer, and others who barely had a platform three........

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