British Professor Suspended For Mentioning Bell Curve
03/23/2006
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Professor Rushton's article today says

The discussion of race and intelligence is being actively repressed on campuses as I write these words.

We've had several articles on this tendency in different forms, the most recent is Professor Frank Ellis, of the University of Leeds, who was suspended for saying to a student newspaper that there is a "persistent gap" in IQ levels.

That is, he was suspended for saying what Charles Murray recently said in Commentary Magazine, and in the Wall Street Journal. Or he was suspended for saying what 52 scientists said in a signed advertisement, Mainstream Science on Intelligence, also in the Wall Street Journal.

And as the BBC report says, [Racism row lecturer is suspended March 23, 2006] he was suspended for saying what Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein said in The Bell Curve, which sold 400,000 copies.

Roger Gair, [send him mail]the university secretary who announced his supension referred to this as his "personal views ."

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