The American Spectator

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br> Re: Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder's Race and Intelligence and Reader Mail's Mind Your Manners : /p>

Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder wrote a brilliant, succinct article about politically incorrect science and the reaction it gets. I realize I'm late to the discussion but so are many others.

Those of us ignorant galoots with the temerity to ask for one, just one, non-counterfeited transition-state fossil to validate the Theory of Evolution or who suggest that said theory violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics have gotten this treatment for years.

p>As for the topic that inspired Mason's and Felder's article, I don't believe any one category of people is any more intelligent than any other. American city-dwellers who believe they are somehow inherently more intelligent than African tribesmen should try to keep up with a local game-tracker in the Bushveld as he logically examines barely perceptible evidence and from it concludes where an animal is hiding, to name but one example. If the city slicker is not humbled by that experience, then his mind is too closed to rightfully be involved in scientific research. br> -- Richmond Trotter, PE br> Arlington, Virginia /p>

London, Ontario contributor Steve Baarda has breathed a voluminous and most welcome gust of common sense into this stale discussion. In this he calls to mind Ronald Reagan who often said of HIS opponents: "It's not what they BELIEVE is wrong so much as it is that what they KNOW . . . just ain't so."

Especially captivating is Mr. Baarda's suggestion" it is not that hard to take the next step and see that it is likely that differences among groups of people who share similar gender, cultures, geography, climate, history, and yes race will develop differently than others and will exhibit some generalized differences."

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