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What kind of "people like Scott", and what kind of political extremists?

I see a dead comment has cited "racial science" and "conservatives", seemingly out of nowhere. Has Scott written something "controversial" that I missed? Something that would offend the left wing?

If so, I can well believe that NYT would take it into their heads to write a semi-hit-piece on someone they perceive to be some sort of Jordan Peterson type.



Scott in his open thread a few weeks ago [0], posted a brief request for help by Steve Hsu, an MSU professor who endorses research into using genetic modification to increase human intelligence and blogs on scientific racism [1].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200617034621/https://slatestar...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hsu




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