THE BELL CURVE & THE SLIPPERY SLOPE

Tim Worstall ponders the controversy over Leeds academic, Frank Ellis. I was living in New York when The Bell Curve was published, and I remember how heated the debate was on both sides. (Not much has changed since then.) My own layman's impression was that Charles Murray had hit on some interesting IQ findings, but seemed way too keen to draw sweeping conclusions from them. I'll have to do a search for the response that Thomas Sowell wrote for the New Republic. That struck me as very fair at the time.