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News and Views: Professor Linda Gottfredson; Another Academic Advocate of Racial Differences in Intelligence
This past fall Linda S. Gottfredson, a tenured professor in the department of educational studies at the University of Delaware, threatened to sue fellow University of Delaware professor Gerry Turkel for libel. Professor Gottfredson charged that in an e-mail to colleagues Professor Turkel labeled her a racist and attempted to link her to David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Duke is the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of White People. He had posted some of Professor Gottfredson's writings on his Web page.
Is Professor Gottfredson a racist? Here are some facts. Let the reader decide.
- In the March 1994...