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Nick Patterson responds to Feldman and Riskin’s NYRB piece

Nick Patterson has responded on his Substack to the NYRB piece Why Biology is not Destiny, which itself is an attack on Kathryn Paige Harden’s book The Genetic Lottery. Patterson does not say anything you can’t find in Stuart Ritchie’s defense, but he is at this stage in his career a very eminent scholar operating from a perch in one of the world’s most prominent population genetics laboratories. So him speaking publically is worthwhile in my opinion, since a lot of this is going to shake out in credential thumping and status signaling (Marcus Feldman in particular is a massive deal in population genetics so it needs to be responded to those in senior positions)…