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October 26, 2003
NKVD tactics
For those of you who feel that I'm too paranoid about anonymity, or who believe that I'm somehow exaggerating the danger to my academic career by even posting here...you need to read this post. First, some background. XSteve and One People's Project are organizations with a history of using Nuremberg Files type tactics, by publishing the home addresses of people they disagree with to encourage violent action against them. For example, here's their "dossier" on Sailer: His falsified and racist writings have permeated the internet, creating many rumors and misunderstanding which have spread through many internet forums. Many unsuspecting people who have written articles on race or interracial marriages may have used Steve as a source while researching on the internet. Ok - you get the picture. These guys are intent on suppressing (by violent intimidation, if necessary) those they disagree with. And this brings us to our current situation. Xsteve recently linked an investigative reporter's excavation of the membership of an e-group list to which a number of people interested in behavioral genetics belong to: Beginning in the summer of 2003, our investigators began sending us information about these "HBDG" people, their connections with Bailey, their support of his work, and their coming to his defense as his work and reputation began unraveling. I seem to remember that Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose, and the rest of the neo-Lysenkoists were all part of an organization called "Science for the People", a Marxist front-group devoted to overthrowing the United States Government and instituting Communism: The radical activists, however, went ballistic on this issue. Shortly after the publication of Sociobiology, Richard Lewontin organized fifteen scientists, teachers, and students in the Boston area as the Sociobiology Study Group, which then affiliated with Science for the People. The latter, larger aggregate of radical activists was begun in the 1960s to expose the misdeeds of scientists and technologists, including especially thinking considered to be politically dangerous. One People's Project links to International ANSWER, and they too are sympathetic to Communism. Just read their position statements. But because Communism isn't universally and reflexively acknowledged as evil (though it killed many more than Nazism), these guys have gotten a free pass - just like the "protesters" organized by Communist front groups like ANSWER. And this is just one of the reasons that the leftist takeover of academe must be stopped. To return to our main topic - in the best tradition of the Spanish Inquisition, we are probably going to see an extensive smear campaign directed against Michael Bailey and all other non pseudonymous members of the list, including Steven Pinker. The people who're running this particular investigation are mainly transsexuals (and are thus politically marginal), but the far larger group of "antiracists" who want to use Nazi smears on guys like Pinker[1] will love the fact that Pinker is on the same list as "the devil himself", Charles Murray. Bet on it - the HBDG will be used like the Pioneer Fund to smear people with guilt-by-association. This whole imbroglio is a good lesson for us. It's easy to become complacent over here at Gene Expression or at HBDG, but anonymity is necessary in today's political climate. To paraphrase Carl Djerassi: The outrage of the neo-Lysenkoists was understandable. The internet promises to decentralize the provision of information to a person's laptop, which can neither be bombed nor picketed. Like La Griffe Du Lion, I will continue to speak the truth. All those who believe that behavioral genetics is a viable field of study are currently in the political wilderness...but give us a few years, and eventually research will vindicate us. [0] The NKVD was the forerunner to the KGB. Update: The plot thickens. The person doing the investigating is Lynn Conway. Now, anyone who's ever taken a class on VLSI design has heard of Conway - along with Carver Mead, she wrote the seminal text on the subject back in 1978, "Introduction to VLSI Design". Thing is, "she" is really a "he". Seems like investigative reporters tracked down the fact that she was a man in her early career and exposed her. Which makes one wonder why she'd want to invade the privacy of others... Bonus laugh This picture is from Conway's website.
Standing next to Conway is Brent Scowcroft, realpolitiker extraordinaire and mastermind of the first Gulf War. Somehow, I doubt ol' Brent would have had that smile on his face if he'd realized that Conway was a transsexual :)
Posted by godless at
06:49 PM
"...they will be at a significant disadvantage in finding relationships and will be breeded out of society" I think he means "will be bred". And he castigates Sailer for "trashy" writing. Posted by: duende at October 26, 2003 07:21 PM? Post a comment
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