Yesterday I wrote about controversy in Slate magazine over intelligence studies. Well, here's more fuel for the fire. This author thinks the attacks on Will Saletan's original article, which argued for a strong genetic connection to intelligence, are ill founded. Perhaps Saletan's sources are not as suspect as I thought. Read the articles and decide for yourself.
On another matter, a reader emails this story about a physicist at Iowa State who may have been denied tenure due to his support for Intelligent Design theory. This story provides much more context. I do not know enough about this case to have an opinion. If he was denied tenure simply over his belief in Intelligent Design, that is probably illegitimate. But there may have been other reasons for denying him tenure, such as his inability to raise research funds, as the article suggests.
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