{"id":2134,"date":"2009-06-08T22:18:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T06:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2009-06-08T22:19:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T06:19:55","slug":"the-politics-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-politics-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The politics of science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Caplan observes of <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2009\/06\/behaviorial_gen.html\">Behaviorial Geneticists versus Policy Implications<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In most disciplines, experts oversell their ability to give useful policy advice.  In behavioral genetics, however, experts strangely undersell their ability to give useful policy advice&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The upshot: <b>Behavioral genetics makes its politically-correct critics angry because the scientists are putting the politically correct in an awkward position: Deny the science, abandon some of their favorite policies, or sound like dogmatic ideologues. <\/b> It&#8217;s no wonder that they&#8217;re angry &#8211; and no wonder that they deny the science.  They&#8217;re not just making the best of a bad situation; they&#8217;re also getting a little revenge on the researchers responsible for their unpleasant predicament.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As they say, &#8220;read the whole thing!&#8221; Currently the most emailed piece in <i>The New York Times<\/i> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/07\/opinion\/07kristof.html?src=sch\">Rising Above I.Q.<\/a> Scientists know very well the sort of research and findings intellectuals and the public find acceptable. One set of conclusions will usher a chorus of denounciations, while others will prompt laudatory praise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Caplan observes of Behaviorial Geneticists versus Policy Implications: In most disciplines, experts oversell their ability to give useful policy advice. In behavioral genetics, however, experts strangely undersell their ability to give useful policy advice&#8230;. &#8230;The upshot: Behavioral genetics makes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-politics-of-science\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[197,1132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}