Shockley on Eugenics and Race: The Application of Science to the Solution of Human Problems

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Pearson has collected William Shockley's writings about his theories of hereditary human intelligence and his belief that the less intelligent were overproducing and the more intelligent, underproducing. Shockley urged that studies be made of heredity, intellectual and demographic trends in order to ensure high intelligence levels. - "Preface", by Arthur R. Jensen - "Introduction", by Roger Pearson - Document 1: "Population Control or Eugenics" [1965: Nobel Conference on Genetics & Future of Man] - Document 2: "Is The Quality of U.S. Population Declining?" [1965 Interview: US News] - Document 3: "Proposed Research to Reduce Racial Aspects of the Environment-Heredity Uncertainty" [1968: NAS proposal] - Document 4: "The Entrenched Dogmatism of Inverted Liberals" [1967: paper read at UC Medical School McMaster U] - Document 5: "Ten Point Position Statement on Human Quality Problems" [1968] - Document 6: "An Analysis Leading to a Recommendation Concerning Inquiry into Eugenic Legislation" [1969: press release 4/28/69] - Document 7: "Human-Quality Problems and Research Taboos" [New Concepts & Directions in Education] - Document 8: "Proposed NAS Resolution, drafter October 17, 1970" - Document 9: "Hardy-Weinberg Law Generalized to Estimate Hybrid Variance for Negro Populations and Reduce Racial Aspects of the Environment-Heredity Uncertainty" [1971: NAS proposal] - Document 10: "Dysgenics - A Social Problem Evaded by the Illusion of Infinite Plasticity of Human Intelligence?" [1971: APA Symposium, Washington DC] - Document 11: "Dysgenics, Geneticity, Raceology: A Challenge to the Intellectual Responsibility of Educators" [1972: Phi Delta Kappa debate issue] - Document 12: "Proposed Resolution Regarding the 80% Geneticity Estimate for Caucasian IQ" [1972: Press release, NAS] - Document 13: "Eugenic, or Anti-Dysgenic, Thinking Exercises" [1974: press release] - Document 14: "Society Has A Moral Obligation to Diagnose Tragic Racial IQ Deficits" [1974: debate vs Roy Innis] - Document 15: "Has Intellectual Humanitarianism Gone Berserk?" [Statement read by William Shockley, Tex A&M] - Document 16: "Anthropological Taboos About Determinations of Racial Mixes" [1979: race mixing, anthropological taboo] - Document 17: "Sperm Banks and Dark-Ages Dogmatism" [Rotary Club, Chico, CA] - Document 18: "Intelligence in Trouble" [1981: article in Leaders Magazine, April-June 1981] - Document 19: "_Playboy_ Interview with William Shockley, August 1980" - Document 20: "A Tribute to Dr. William Shockley by his Student Office Personnel" [23 July 1978, in support of an appeal for financial aid for the non-profit organization the Foundation for Research and Education on Eugenics and Dysgenics (FREED).] - Document 21: "True (Not Berserk) Humanitarianism: A Positive Absolute Value That Unites Religion and Science" [1975: address at the Fourth International Science Conference on the Unity of the Sciences held in New York in November 1975.] - A Photographic Memorial to William Shockley