A Dangerous Idea

A DANGEROUS IDEA reveals how scientists and policymakers have promoted the myth of the gene in America and rolled back gains on race, class, and gender equality

[Jay Joseph @jayjoseph22.bsky.social @jayjoseph22]

A fascinating 2024 Twitter exchange on IQ genetics in the sense that, in "The Bell Curve" (1994, pp. 105-108), Murray (and Herrnstein) cited studies of twins reared APART as providing "the most unambiguous direct estimates" of #IQ heritability.

[Jay Joseph @jayjoseph22.bsky.social @jayjoseph22]

"Bad dancing can be blamed on genes."

Elaine absolved!

https://t.co/JTOqmegRpY

[Democracy At Work @democracyatwrk]

New #EconomicUpdate with @profwolff today at 4:30PM ET! "How #Deficits and #Debts Rip Us Off" #resistcapitalism #anticapitalism #economics #politics #economy #profwolff #democracyatwork
Watch it here: https://t.co/L1s83Dipgf

[Jay Joseph @jayjoseph22.bsky.social @jayjoseph22]

2005 article I wrote for History of Psychiatry. The topic will surprise some current readers: "The 1942 'Euthanasia' Debate in the American Journal of Psychiatry." Proposal to take eugenics to its logical conclusion in the U.S., backed by the AJP Editor.

https://t.co/QT5V0b7eVB

[Longmore Institute on Disability @LongmoreInst]

Superfest Disability Film Festival 2024 is open for submissions!
For more information, go to https://t.co/K4aGZ1XRxD
Earlybird deadline, January 20, 2024
Regular deadline March 1, 2024
Notification date, June 30, 2024.

[A Dangerous Idea @adifilm]

In service to their sociopolitical agenda, they established the statistician as an authority figure, a numerical referee who is by nature impartial, they claimed, since statistical analysis is just unbiased number-crunching. https://t.co/IRv8u65X8a

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Newton, MA teachers are on strike.

Teacher strikes are illegal in Massachusetts, but 98% of the union voted to strike.

The union president says they "felt so disrespected, so abandoned, so left alone by the political leaders" that they had no choice.
https://t.co/ItoHlb7P8H

[Jay Joseph @jayjoseph22.bsky.social @jayjoseph22]

"Torrey writes that the search for schizophrenia genes can be compared to a wild goose chase—although, he adds, 'it is even worse than that since a wild goose chase has, at least theoretically, a wild goose that might be caught.'"

[Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II @RevDrBarber]

Every major faith tradition calls us to challenge society and how we treat the poor and the least of these. We can’t allow religious nationalism, which is a form of heresy, to have the loudest and last say. https://t.co/W2ysiLlGWU

[A Dangerous Idea @adifilm]

https://t.co/mlD81xBzyt

[Jay Joseph @jayjoseph22.bsky.social @jayjoseph22]

The image on the left represents how #psychiatry and #PsychiatricGenetics see #schizophrenia. The image on the right is the cover of my most recent book, where I show that there is no reason to suspect that genes have anything to do with the condition. https://t.co/6iCwopBtP9

[Genetics and Society @C_G_S]

A parliamentary report on Japan’s former eugenic law recognizes Japan's history of forced sterilizations but fails to explore why eugenic legacies linger and what the government should do to prevent their continued impact on people with disabilities.
https://t.co/sZ8nhQqJBO

[Fight for a Union @FightForAUnion]

How can @McDonalds and @Walmart get away with paying so little? Simple. They rely on the government subsidizing their low wages with assistance programs like SNAP.

These big corporations need to pay their fair share.

#RaiseTheWage

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

20 August 1939 | A French Jewish girl, Renee Kaufman, was born in Paris.

In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

[A Dangerous Idea @adifilm]

Not sure any important disparities can be attributed to genetics, but this reminds us how often our medical establishment ignores or negates social and environmental causes of illness and claims that biological differences between groups are to blame. https://t.co/kBnpBEeeV6

[A Dangerous Idea @adifilm]

Amid the Barbie craze, this came up and is worth a read - Mattel reportedly bribed female workers in the Philippines to undergo sterilization - One Mattel employee said, ‘We call our company ‘motel’ because we are often told to lay down or be laid off.’” https://t.co/A7bDf1pm5W

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Truckers used to make $100K+ per year. Now many drivers are homeless.

So what happened?

Trucking was deregulated — letting billionaires and big box stores like Walmart crush workers across an entire industry.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

This is #TheInconvenientKing.

This is a clip of my father that anyone who only quotes one MLK line from the end of ‘I Have a Dream’ should watch/hear.

And he didn’t evolve to working for economic + racial justice right before he was assassinated.

He talked about it in IHAD.

[Dorothy Roberts @DorothyERoberts]

Race “correction” in medicine (adjustments made to diagnostic & treatment tools based on a patient’s race) is rooted in a false ideology invented to support slavery & documented to harm Black patients. It should be abolished. Why are some still defending it?

[Genetics and Society @C_G_S]

A new Netflix documentary chronicling the spectacular rise and scandal-ridden fall of South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-Suk missed its chance to highlight lessons that are relevant in today’s biotech landscape. https://t.co/XU5qKXLPCx