User:Jean Lusaz

We critics of biological determinism are like members of a fire brigade, constantly being called out in the middle of the night to put out the latest conflagration, always responding to immediate emergencies, but never with the leisure to draw up plans for a truly fireproof building. Now it is IQ and race, now criminal genes, now the biological inferiority of women, now the genetic fixity of human nature. All these deterministic fires need to be doused with the cold water of reason before the entire intellectual neighborhood is in flames. - Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon J. Kamin, Not in Our Genes

In psychology, the project of resurrecting the Galtonian tradition now advances under the banner of objectivity. A host of pseudo-scientific journals have sprung up, steered by academic editorial boards with neo-fascist connections, which publish articles promoting the racial anthropology that fueled the nazi movement. The appeal of such work depends upon its perceived objectivity; thus the refrain that racialized psychology is good science, while opposition is sentiment, politics, cant.

- Steven A. Gelb, "Heart of darkness: the discreet charm of the hereditarian psychologist"