The Bell Curve and the IQ controversy

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The Bell Curve and the Pioneer Fund
ABC World News Tonight, 22 November 1994. Transcript of the ABC World News Tonight story on The Bell Curve and the Pioneer Fund that aired 22 November 1994. Peter Jennings interviews the historian Bill Blakemore, Berry Mehler and others.
A dialog on the Bell Curve
Dialog from the African Global Experience List (AGE-L), February 1995.
Bell Curve literature
By Ben Brennan, 21 February 1995. Brief reference to sources.
How the Left betrayed I.Q. Bell Curve liberals
By Adrian Wooldridge, 27 February 1995. Opposition to the use of I.Q. testing goes back as far as testing itself. Its practitioners have been accused of misusing science to justify capitalist exploitation; allowing their obsession with classification to blind them to the huge variety of human abilities; encouraging soulless teaching; and, worst of all, inflaming racial prejudices and justifying racial inequalities. To this school of thinking, The Bell Curve was a godsend.
Review of Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Bell Curve (Free Press, 1994)
By David Lethbridge, People’s Voice, March 1995. For at least twenty-five years, Dr. Herrnstein pretended to be a scientist. The disguise apparently worked.
Flattening The Bell Curve
By Joe Sims, in People’s Weekly World, 1 April 1995. Press attempt to legitimate crude racism as a legitimate part of public discourse, and many liberals have capitulated.
Review of Steven Fraser (ed), The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence and the Future of America
By Phil Shannon, Green Left Weekly, 20 October 1995.
The Bell Curve and Eugenics (©1995)
By Michael Swanson, 20 October 1995. The Bell Curve uses data to justify an overhauling of social policy and says that great cutbacks in social programs are needed because they subsidize the growth of the lower intelligence population.
Genes’ Sway Over IQ May Vary With Class
By Rick Weiss, Washington Post, Tuesday 2 September 2003. A groundbreaking study of the interaction among genes, environment and IQ finds that the influence of genes on intelligence is dependent on class. Genes do explain the vast majority of IQ differences among children in wealthier families, the new work shows. But environmental factors—not genetic deficits—explain IQ differences among poor minorities.