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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Happy "Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence" is a bust anniversary - 20 years on!

It was 20 years ago, on June 17, 2005, that white nationalist Henry Harpending, racist and Ron Unz fundee Gregory Cochran and college student Jason Hardy, published the Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence (NHAI) hypothesis.

I wrote an article about the NHAI which is still available on Rational Wiki

Here is the archive just in case it's not.

NHAI was promoted by race pseudoscience fans like Steven Pinker and professional racist Steve Sailer and NYTimes columnist Nicholas Wade. 

Steven Pinker claimed it would be "easy to test" but it never was tested. Because it was never more than wishful thinking by hereditarians who thought that this time for sure they'd made a case for hereditarianism.

I created a counter on the Rational Wiki page to keep track of how long it's remained untested. 

Here is the JavaScript version: 

AUTOMATIC COUNTER: Today is It has been years since the Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence hypothesis was published but NOT tested.

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