Volume 24, Number 1 · February 3, 1977
Unnatural Science
By P.B. Medawar
The Science and Politics of IQ
by Leon J. Kamin
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, distributed by John Wiley & Sons, 183 pp., $10.95
The IQ Controversy
edited by N.J. Block, edited by Gerald Dworkin
Pantheon, 557 pp., $6.95 (paper)
If a broad line of demarcation is drawn between the natural sciences and what can only be described as the unnatural sciences, it will at once be recognized as a distinguishing mark of the latter that their practitioners try most painstakingly to imitate what they believe—quite wrongly, alas for them—to be the distinctive manners and observances of the natural sciences. Among these are:
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