Comments on Ionian Enchantment: Crazy Kanazawa

kanazawa is a bona fide scientific racist...he is ...

2008-06-02T05:32:00.000+02:00

kanazawa is a bona fide scientific racist...he is now hooked up writing papers with Richard Lynn on why Africans have low IQs

A lot of his statistical research is shoddy too. He fishes for correlations in large datasets

That post is why Kanazawa has permanently lost me ...

2008-05-02T23:55:00.000+02:00

That post is why Kanazawa has permanently lost me (and, I'm sure, many others) as readers.

Hi Perry... Well, knowledge qua abstract knowledge...

2008-03-25T12:38:00.000+02:00

Hi Perry... Well, knowledge qua abstract knowledge rarely has effects just on its own. The point is the direct consequences of pursuing the truth - doing experiments that might create a black hole, say - should SOMETIMES be considered. Scientists shouldn't self-censor, but if the consequences are likely to be vastly negative, they should at least CONSIDER this.

To defend Kanazawa for a moment. The black hole i...

2008-03-24T06:43:00.000+02:00

To defend Kanazawa for a moment.
The black hole is not a consequence of the knowledge produced, it's a physical artifact of the research process.
Perry

Good commentary. My only quibble would be with you...

2008-03-08T15:18:00.000+02:00

Good commentary. My only quibble would be with your last bit about how evolutionary psychologists are not hard-hearted, like Kanazawa. Not ALL are, but many take delight in that kind of damn-the-torpedoes approach. He's obviously a professional provocateur, like his heroine, Coulter. Check out our blog, also at Psychology Today, for a more balanced approach to EP (Lust in Paradise).

Thank you for spending your time answering Kanaz...

2008-03-07T18:31:00.000+02:00

Thank you for spending *your time* answering Kanazawa. Such craziness needs a response, but there is so much of it that most of us just walk away, and it's hard to blame anyone for that.