Crank Cuckoldry

Good essay on cranks in the "movement."

Read here.

Haplogroup N

NRY haplogroup.

Haplogroup N: an interesting origin and an interesting distribution.

Not the sort of thing discussed in detail by those "raciology" Russian "race scientists" praised in "the movement."  Not the sort of thing focused on by all the "titans" "marching" either.

After all, population genetics data must be cherry-picked for an agenda.

Another reason to focus on genetic kinship, since the population genetics field has been completely politicized, particularly by "the movement."

Cognitive Cheaters

Law-abiding high-IQ Chinese...cheating on exams.

Is anyone surprised?

More HBD Nonsense: Rushton

Typical superficial HBD nonsense.

See here.

Several points.

First, this idea about a wider range (greater SD) of European vs. East Asian IQ has been around for quite some time.  Evidence for it is lacking, as far as I know.  Granted, Rushton mentioned it as a possibility, not as definitive, but still, if there is no real evidence for it, why not mention that fact, instead of taking the idea seriously?

Second, the 'Black Death" was not a "virus."  Didn't Rushton know elementary facts about the Bubonic Plague.

Third, note how eager he was to speculate that East Asians are about to out-pace Whites, which he considered as the normal outcome, given their "higher-IQ."

And with respect to the point about testosterone (from Duke?), is that a fact or only an assumption?  

Boycotting General Mills

The Cheerios commercial.

Read here.

Cognitive Food

Any comment from the HBDers?

Read here.

Emphasis added:

“We are importing more and more food from China at the same time we are hearing more and more about food scandals involving Chinese companies,” said Patty Lovera, assistant director of Food and Water Watch who testified in Congress at a hearing on Chinese food imports. Food safety problems, like melamine deliberately put into pet foods and baby formula as well as unsafe levels of cadmium in rice, have plagued China. The latest episode involved fox, rat and mink meat that was doctored with gelatin, pigment and nitrates and sold as mutton.

 “We should definitely give the Chinese an award for creativity in adulterating foods,” said Jeff Nelken, a food safety expert. “They are a great resource for counterfeited foods, like honey products that don’t seem to have any pollen in them.”...

...China is not, however, allowed to export fresh pork or beef to the United States because it still has outbreaks of hoof and mouth disease. 

The Smithfield announcement reminded many people of video footage this spring that showed thousands of pig carcasses floating down a river that supplies drinking water to Shanghai. The source of the floating pigs remains a mystery, but they were hailed as a sign that a Chinese government crackdown on people selling dead and diseased pigs for pork was working. 

In 2011, Shuanghui itself got caught up in that enforcement effort, after Chinese officials found it selling pork laced with clenbuterol, a veterinary medicine banned for use in animals intended for human consumption.

Who Was Responsible For the 1965 Immigration Act?

Hint: Not really Ted Kennedy or "the Irish."

Read here.