Speaking of racism, today a group of notable scientists published a letter, refuting Nicholas Wade’s claim in his latest (and loved by the hate-right) book A Troublesome Inheritance.

Geneticists say popular book misrepresents research on human evolution

Here’ the letter:

LETTERS: ‘A TROUBLESOME INHERITANCE’

Published in The New York Times Book Review August 8, 2014

To the Editor:

As scientists dedicated to studying genetic variation, we thank David Dobbs for his review of Nicholas Wade’s “A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History” (July 13), and for his description of Wade’s misappropriation of research from our field to support arguments about differences among human societies.

As discussed by Dobbs and many others, Wade juxtaposes an incomplete and inaccurate account of our research on human genetic differences with speculation that recent natural selection has led to worldwide differences in I.Q. test results, political institutions and economic development. We reject Wade’s implication that our findings substantiate his guesswork. They do not.

We are in full agreement that there is no support from the field of population genetics for Wade’s conjectures.

Nicholas Wade has gotten lots of love around the hate-right. For example, here is Michael Barone in National Review:

Genetic Science vs. Belief

BTW, lots of Wade-love in the past at NRO.

The hate-right is also the ignorant-right, but that won’t stop them from filling millions of pages with spew.

I’m glad the population geneticists are officially fighting back.