Originally Posted by dculkin

Why? What would we do with the information? Just the process of trying to study the issue in any scientific manner would be divisive. And what are the odds of coming up with conclusions that people will accept as true? It is a pointless exercise and I would question the judgment and motivation of any scientist who devote his or her career to this subject.

You can go ahead and debate if you like. Looks like a waste of time to me.

I do agree with your suggestion for peer review. Charles Murray might have saved himself some public embarrassment if he and his co-author had submitted The Bell Curve to peer review. Of course, if they had done that, the book probably never would have been published.