A Special Message From Steve Sailer to VDARE.COM Readers

Tonight we post Steve Sailer, Paul Craig Roberts on Pat Buchanan, Today’s Letter, blogging etc—scroll down to bottom, past donate link, to enter site. But first here’s a special message from Steve:

On a variety of crucial topics, VDARE.COM serves as the Research & Development lab for public discourse. We routinely point out facts that merely mentioning in the Main Stream Media might get you fired—if you were, say, head of a celebrated university, like Larry Summers, or of a famous laboratory, like James Watson. (And in modern Europe, stating realities might get you arrested.)

VDARE.COM's indispensability was clear during the first month after Watson, America's most prominent man of science, was fired for violating the dogmas of political correctness. VDARE.com stood almost alone in declaring the crushing of the great geneticist to be a disgrace.

Last week, a Main Stream Media outlet, the Washington Post-owned webzine Slate.com, finally joined us. It ran a three part series by their human sciences correspondent William Saletan entitled "Race, Genes, and Intelligence". Saletan admitted what VDARE.COM readers (but almost no other kind of readers) had known all along:

"Last month, James Watson, the legendary biologist, was condemned and forced into retirement after claiming that African intelligence wasn't ‘the same as ours.’ ‘Racist, vicious and unsupported by science,’ said the Federation of American Scientists. ‘Utterly unsupported by scientific evidence,’ declared the U.S. government's supervisor of genetic research. The New York Times told readers that when Watson implied ‘that black Africans are less intelligent than whites, he hadn't a scientific leg to stand on.’

"I wish these assurances were true. They aren't."

Fortunately, the First Amendment means that nobody can stop us from telling the truth—as long as we can afford to keep doing so.

And for that, we are dependent upon the kind generosity of you, our readers. Please give now.

A half century ago, A.J. Liebling acidly noted, "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one". Today, the Internet means that owning the contemporary equivalent of a printing press is dirt cheap. But, quality writing isn't dirt cheap. We professional writers are just plain cheap.

But we aren't free.

—Steve Sailer.

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If you do that and then again click on "continue", bottom left, it gives up trying to get you to sign up for PayPal and takes you to a page where you can enter your credit card information.  

PayPal is a great system, but its marketing people are aggressive - like those annoying ads on newspaper websites, something I really want to avoid on VDARE.COM. (HINT! HINT)