Understanding our eugenic past to take steps towards scientific accountability

Almost all human traits do have a genetic component. Reasonable people can disagree about what to do with that insight, but it unsustainable to pretend that intelligence is not influenced by genetics.

'Today, we are seeing a surge of well-funded studies seeking to determine the genetic basis of traits with clear, well-studied environmental influences like height, intelligence, sexual behavior, and income. These analyses have received numerous technical critiques that call into question the validity of the scientific inferences, noting that “while the benefits are far from obvious, the risks of such results being misinterpreted and misused are quite clear.”'