Applying rigorous standards is not a ban or censorship: A reply to León (2025) and Connor and Fuerst (2025)
Kevin A Bird1, John P Jackson2, Andrew S Winston3
1Department of Plant Sciences, ,, University of California, Davis.
Abstract:
In their commentaries on Bird et al. (2024), León (2025) and Connor and Fuerst (2025) misrepresent our position as supporting censorship or bans on racial hereditarian research. We explicitly rejected censorship and bans, and we warned against labeling researchers as "racists." Instead, we argued for the application of stringent scientific standards from relevant disciplines. Connor and Fuerst's argument for using admixture regression to find a genetic basis for racial differences in test scores is rejected. Their focus on this specific method fails to address the scientific and ethical issues of racial hereditarian research that we raised in Bird et al. (2024). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
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