I think he's probably a monster

Charles Murray--Man or fictional monster?

Ok, so I guess he's literally a man (though I think, depending on your definition of monster, he could be both). But seriously, what time period is he from? Probably the 60s, because he has to be smoking something.

For those of you who don't know, he wrote a book titled "The Bell Curve" and a subsequent essay 10 years later; in both documents he basically twisted scientific research to support his own ideas, and added a few assumptions presented as fact along the way. Can you say confirmation bias?

I had to read an article of his for my final tomorrow; we discussed it in class a while ago, and though I thought his ideas were stupid then, I'm realizing just how even more ridiculous they are now that I've fully read the article. Please. Suggesting that there is a genetic difference in the intelligence of men and women or the intelligence of blacks and whites? Seriously? People are still doing that today?

I hope he cried when Obama was elected. I really do. *Laughs at the thought.*

You may ask, why is she blogging about this? Isn't she tired and doesn't she have a final to study for? Yes I am exhausted. Yes I still have over 1/2 of my studying to do. Yes, I think Charles Murray is a ho-bag, which is why I feel the need to write all this out.

So take this Charles Murray--I'm a woman and I spotted at least 15 holes in your arguments in a 10 page paper. So, basically, I owned you, and you think that I should inherently (actually no, not inherently; you don't like that word. I mean "intractably") be worse than you in general intelligence level (since I'm guessing you think you're one of the "extremes" of intelligence that you talk about). So, chew on that.

Maybe, when I'm a top doctor and you have some disease when you're old and decrepit, you'll come to me and ask me what's wrong with you. If this happens, I'll smile sweetly and say "Oh, I'm not sure, because I'm just a woman; since this is science it's not really my gender's area of expertise (even if I am a doctor and did go through medical school and subsequent years of training in a residency). You should be able to diagnose yourself though, right? I mean, isn't this a man's realm?"

OK, maybe I'm stretching what he's saying. He's not saying all men are better at math and science. But he IS saying that they are genetically predisposed to be better. And that is ludicrous. Just as ludicrous as his claims that whites are genetically more intelligent than blacks. Ridiculous.

Well, back to the studying. I just felt like writing something about how Charles Murray is probably the stupidest supposedly smart person I've ever heard of.