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From: yarak@bnrmtv.UUCP (Dennis Yarak)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Stupidity about intelligence (or genetics)
Message-ID: <2043@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 11:54:54 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 23 11:54:54 1987
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References: <126@snark.UUCP> <3728@sunybcs.UUCP> <1651@kontron.UUCP>
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Mtn. View, CA
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Summary: What political reasons?
Xref: mnetor talk.politics.misc:3232 sci.bio:474

In article <1651@kontron.UUCP>, cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:

* We learned that humans have 46 chromosomes.  We learned about chromosomal
* abnormalities like Down's Syndrome, and Klinefelter's males.  But we
* didn't learn about a population where HALF of the study group were not
* 46 chromosomes.

* I'm beginning to wonder how much high school science classes are tailored
* for political reasons.

* Clayton E. Cramer



While the last statement tantalizingly lets the individual imagination
run wild, and while I would be the last to dispute that high school texts
have been subject to severe content emasculation (mostly by the Texas
School Textbook Commission, or whatever its formal name is), I wonder
if Mr. Cramer might detail what "political reasons" he attributes to
this presumed deliberate witholding of information from him?



Dennis Yarak
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