Jay Joseph Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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16. Disingenuous comment. HM knew full well that a belief that science has determined that an ethnic group is genetically less intelligent (i.e., is inferior) has major implications for how people of the group are treated, and helps justify their oppression. https://t.co/cF6V7mYT2Z

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Since Thomas Szasz and his views are being discussed these days on Twitter, here's a link to my 2008 Contemporary Psychiatry review of his 2007 book "Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry." https://t.co/amNSKRuI2q

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17. In his 2014 book “Beyond Versus,” James Tabery produced a table outlining differences between the BG/psychometric approach (“variation-partitioning”) and developmental psychology approaches (“mechanism-elucidation”). HM recognized only the variation-partitioning approach. https://t.co/Cb4fcy3P4R

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@ashleystreet Agreed. As Robert Proctor wrote in Cancer Wars, "Scientific attention always comes at a certain cost: the decision to investigate one area is simultaneously a decision to ignore another..."

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@KiernanEd @jersey_flight @bobkolker @DrDBeech @Ryan_ETyler @DrAnnieHickox @DrEricKuelker My evaluation of the evidence. In his 2022 book "Healing" (p. 132), Thomas Insel, former head of the U.S. NIMH wrote, "in contrast to the mutations discovered for cancer or rare diseases, none of the genetic variants associated with mental illness can be considered causal.”

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3. Abbreviations: g = general intelligence; h2 = heritability; HM = Richard Herrnstein & Charles Murray; IQ = IQ (intelligence quotient) score(s); TBC = The Bell Curve; W-B = U.S. white-black mean IQ score difference (gap). There were no claims of IQ gene discoveries in TBC.

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My latest for @Mad_In_America: "'Hidden Valley Road' and Schizophrenia: Do Genes Tell the Story?" The #schizophrenia genetic evidence and gene "discoveries" described in R. Kolker's 2020 bestselling book #HiddenValleyRoad were not discoveries at all. https://t.co/YhHRX9gA7v

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16. Disingenuous comment. HM knew full well that a belief that science has determined that an ethnic group is genetically less intelligent (i.e., is inferior) has major implications for how people of the group are treated, and helps justify their oppression. https://t.co/cF6V7mYT2Z

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Thread 🧵 1. Some comments on passages found in twin researcher Nancy Segal's recent article, "What Do We Learn From the Twin Children of the Holocaust?" https://t.co/l4me3GuBp3

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Announcing the publication of my review of "Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are" by Robert Plomin, published in the American Journal of Psychology. (Sorry about the paywall). #behavioralgenetics https://t.co/DYRTgDLxW2