The Push to Effectively Ban Research on Race and IQ

On the Nathan Cofnas affair.

I was only dimly aware of this when it happened.

Hysterical Lysenkoism is becoming the order of the day.

Cofnas is arguing that such research should be permissible--a no-brainer. The title of the paper is:

Research on group differences in intelligence: A defense of free inquiry

But free inquiry is exactly what the Lysenkoist left does not want, of course. What it wants is you to shut up and believe what they tell you to believe.

Many philosophers and scientists called for a retraction of his peer-reviewed paper, called for his "cancellation" and for the resignation of the journal's editor. 

Sane philosophers--what few seem to remain--were generally silent.

The semi-official orthodoxy of the progressive left now is: research that is in any way politically incorrect must not be permitted. Which is no surprise: that's what political correctness is, after all.

[I stay away from The Daily Nous--I'm depressed enough about philosophy as it is. But here's David Wallace slapping around Mark Alfano, the point man of the anti-inquiry faction, in the comments.]