r/SamHarris debates race and IQ. Bring out the calipers, we're about to measure the diameter of some drama!

Sam Harris recently had on his podcast Charles Murray of racist Bell Curve fame (yes I'm going to call that book racist, fite me irl). This has sparked a ton of drama as Murray is obviously quite controversial and a lot of Harris' fans love to call themselves liberal.

Someone decided to make a thread about the differences in "national IQ" (pretty sure this means race & IQ) and academic performance, which predictably deteriorated quickly. Accusations of straw man fallacies abound, along with the kind of pedantry we love here at SRD:

https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/683z84/what_experts_in_the_field_think_about_national/dgvlqyf/

There are more great comments like:

Intelligence is inversely proportional to religiosity. When we find that gene, ladies and gentlemen, then we will have found our effect.

and people telling others to look up scientific racism, presumably because they're showing the characteristics of such.

Full thread here.