# Interesting podcast conversation between Sam Harris and Charles Murray (of "Bell Curve" fame)

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Also check out my post on how Wade’s racist book was received by proponents for racialism. It includes a humourous quote from…Charles Murray, who (as always) **couldn’t have been more wrong**.

> [@At what level is racialism accepted in the scientific community?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-level-is-racialism-accepted-in-the-scientific-community/695257/2):
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> Also Wade did get some positive reviews, but mostly they came from [White](http://www.amren.com/features/2014/03/attack-on-the-regime/) [Nationalists](http://www.vdare.com/articles/john-derbyshire-on-nicholas-wade-s-a-troublesome-inheritance-a-small-but-significant-step-f) and Charles Murray.[  
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> It is hard to convey how rich this book is. It could be the textbook for a semester’s college course on human evolution, systematically surveying as it does the basics of genetics, evolutionary psychology, Homo sapiens’s diaspora and the recent discoveries about the evolutionary adaptations that have occurred since then. The book is a delight to read—conversational and lucid. And it will trigger an intellectual explosion the likes of which we haven’t seen for a few decades.

]([http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303380004579521482247869874](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303380004579521482247869874))  
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Wade’s racialism wasn’t celebrated by scientists, but thoroughly debunked. Wade, of course, did what racialists always do…[Deny, ignore, and wholesale dismiss all of the scientists while claiming persecution and conspiracy.](http://blogs.nature.com/news/files/2014/08/Response-to-NYT-letter.pdf)

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