Monday, September 30, 2024

Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right

Sailer, 65, of Los Angeles, California, has no known academic qualifications in biology or any other scientific field. He has publicly claimed a BA, an MBA and a period of corporate employment that ended in 2000. 

But he has been instrumental in the revival of eugenic thinking under the euphemism "human biodiversity" (HBD), has drawn on the ideas of self-described eugenicists and scientific racists, and has appeared on conference stages alongside prominent white nationalists and antisemites. 

His work in turn is cited by white supremacists: the Guardian found dozens of favorable references to Sailer on the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront. His central claims include the idea that social racial categories – Black, white or Hispanic – have a biological basis, and that this is revealed in differences in intelligence and other attributes. 

Scientists say this is wrong...

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