Biotech Values

[Lewis R Goudy]

Murray clearly overstates the immutability of human intelligence when he tacitly premises that the architecture
and neural functioning of the brain are static. A case in
point is the enhancement of neuroplasticity by Adderall
(already being prescribed off-label for that specific purpose,
eg for professional musicians).

He is also spouting BS in claiming that he is g-constrained
from understanding a proof in a mathematical journal.

He accepts that low intelligence leads to emotional deficit
and so to social and economic problems, but lacks the wisdom
if not the wit to acknowledge causation in the other direction
(neurons cannot be recruited to higher centers if they are in
high demand below for coping mechanisms because of ubiquitous
stressors, eg racial demonization of white children by grade
school curricular materials, worrying about getting killed
on the way to an inner city school, etc.).

HG Wells drew the same battle lines a century ago:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11696

If society needs more g in aggregate, and public schools are
first and foremost stress factories, then the indicated course
is an end to public education.