The leading weekly science journal Nature has taken it upon itself to publish a series of articles on what science has to say about being human.  The first contribution, published this week, is on religion, and I am going to quote a little from it.

First, though, here is a quote from the editorial that announced the series.  It talks about the difficulties for evolutionary scientists of:-

... being objective about a topic as philosophically, politically and ethically charged as human nature. Take the sociobiology wars of the 1970s and 1980s. Left-wing scholars rejected biological explanations for phenomena such as gender roles, religion, homosexuality and xenophobia, largely because they feared such explanations would be used to justify a continuation of existing inequalities on genetic grounds. The resulting debates became hugely political.

The combustibility of the interface between science and society is one major reason for the extraordinary fragmentation of research that tackles human behaviour. In part because of the sociobiology battle, most social scientists still steer clear of using evolutionary hypotheses. And even researchers who do work under the unifying framework of evolution tend to fall into distinct camps such as gene–culture co-evolution or human behavioural ecology — their practitioners divided by differences of opinion on, say, the relative importance of culture versus genes.

Alright, this guy - obviously an eminent science writer - can’t say that the “sociobiology wars” were really an ethnically-motivated attack on good science by Jewish race warriors.  We understand that he has to have a job to go to tomorrow morning.

But I was quite amazed that, in this genomic age, it is still necessary to call those monsters “scholars” and to portray their motives as “fear” of justifying inequalities.  Why so?  Gould and Co agitated for anti-science.  If, on the contrary, sociobiology had demonstrated some aspect of human nature in a way favourable to Jewish ethnic interests, they would have been praising it from the rooftops.  They were liars.  They were wrong.  They were divisive.  They were destructive to careers.

Can’t the editor of Nature plainly state that anti-science is not what is expected of supposed men of science?  In the very next paragraph he regrets the damage done by these creatures.  He could call for an end to fear, an end to division.  But he doesn’t.

Anyway, to move on to the piece on evolution and religion, by the memory specialist Pascal Boyer.  He has this to say:-

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By David Hamilton

The dominant ideology in the western nations is built around multi-racialism or anti-racism.  But its permissiveness towards white ethnic cleansing carries echoes of its philosophical opposite, Nazism. The motive - for this can only be intentional - is to push “whites” out of their communities, and that is against democratic principles and the rule of law.

More than 50 million African workers are being brought to Europe in a secret immigration agreement. This is on a scale of evil comparable to the herding of Jewish people into gas chambers, which we are constantly told is the greatest crime in history.  It is intended to destroy a people: the whole of western Europe’s native people, and it has been implemented by the evil E.U. This ideology is totalitarian with only one viewpoint allowed. It is very intolerant of any complaint about the cruelty and injustice of it and brands dissidents as “haters”, “bigots”, “fascists” or “Nazis.” It is implemented by deceit and often in secret.

A “job centre” funded by money confiscated from Europe’s tax-payers has been opened in Mali, and is hailed as the beginning of “free movement of people in Africa and the EU”. The report is from the EU statistical agency Eurostat. It rationalises that vast numbers of migrants could be needed to meet the shortfall in two years if Europe is to have a hope of funding the pension and health needs of its growing elderly population. EU economists in Britain and other EU states will “need” 56 million immigrant workers between them by 2050 to make up for the “demographic decline” due to falling birth rates and rising death rates across Europe.

That is a lie! If the Civil Service Pensions and in particular parliamentary pensions were scaled down to sensible levels more in line with every other pensioner receiving a pension from HM Government there would be greater equality after retirement. People are paid for doing a job while they are doing it. But I don’t see why the taxpayer should be required to fund a pension which equates to a job when they have left. I know that parts of the private sector do that, but that is private and driven by profits. It is entirely different. Moreover, If we were not transferring billions of pounds in Aid to elites in the Third World, and billions as UK subscriptions to the UN and the EU, we might well be able to give our people a better pension.

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Following his intervention on my Steve Jones post, and his subsequent attempt to demonstrate an Aryan genetic superiority over non-Aryan Europeans, our friend Northerner has found himself hosting a chat between Desmond Jones and myself.  For anyone who is unable to sleep, the soporific effects of a rambling, incoherent discussion about National Socialism are guaranteed effective, especially when that discussion is between such philosophical non-supremacists as Desmond and myself.

I only mention it in passing.

I’ve been wondering how the unprecedented debacle in the money business impacts upon the theory of an imperiously capable global elite.  How does one explain that where there were five organisations in America bearing the prestigious title “investment bank”, now there are none?  Not even Goldman Sachs has hung on to its former status, notwithstanding its long tradition of planting its senior executives in the executive.  How did the Masters of the Universe get things so fundamentally, spectacularly wrong? 

Of course, the completely staggering quantities of public money that have been committed across the world to stave off further collapse could be said to argue for the political power of the banking elites.  Or they could if the end result had not been the hugely embarrassing nationalisation of some very old names.

I admit to being puzzled.  Are we to model a system where Lazard et Freres conspired, while the rest played their juvenile games with money they did not have, and only went to Bilderberg, Davos and the Grove to add to their collection of hotel towels?

Anybody care to explain?

Only two weeks after the Austrian electorate put Jörg Haider back on the national stage, he is reported to have died in a car crash near his home town of Klagenfurt:-

Mr Haider, 58, who earned worldwide notoriety for making statements sympathetic to Hitler’s Nazi regime, suffered fatal head and chest injuries after the car he was driving plunged down an embankment near his home town of Klagenfurt.

Detectives are still investigating the cause of the crash, but said he was driving alone at the time in a government-owned vehicle.

The death of Mr Haider, who was governor of Carinthia province in southern Austria, comes less than a fortnight after a major resurgence in the far right’s political support in the country, riding on a wave of anti-immigrant and anti-European Union sentiment.

At parliamentary elections last month, Mr Haider’s Alliance for the Future of Austria polled 11 per cent of the vote, while the similarly-aligned Freedom Party, which Mr Haider founded but then split from, polled 18 per cent. The results meant nearly in three Austrians had voiced support for far-right movements, dismaying the country’s liberal politicians.

Mr Haider’s death may prompt concerns that political support will pass from him to the current Freedom Party leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, who is seen as a much more hardline figure. Mr Haider was originally Mr Strache’s political mentor, but the two fell out as Mr Haider chose to pursue more moderate policies in recent years.

Mr Haider’s spokesman, Stefan Petzner, said that he had been heading to a town near Klagenfurt for a gathering of his family to mark his mother’s 90th birthday.

“This is for us like the end of the world,” he added.

Born in Upper Austria, Mr Haider’s father was a former member of Hitler’s brown-shirted storm troopers, while his mother was a teacher who had been a Hitler Youth leader. Involved in politics since his teenage years, he caused an international outcry with a series of remarks where he appeared to imply an admiration for the Nazi era.

He once compared the employment policies of Austria’s government with the “proper labour policies” of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany, and on another occasion he referred to Nazi concentration camps as “penal camps” rather than death camps.

Visits to see despots such as Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Colonel Gaddafi in Libya heightened his image as a pariah politician.

Such was the opprobrium he earned among fellow European statesmen that when the Freedom Party entered into a coalition government with the conservative People’s Party in 2000, it triggered temporary European Union sanctions against Austria.

The coalition deal then fell apart, leading to an early election in 2002 in which the Freedom Party lost heavily, followed by a remake of the coalition.

Mr Haider then formed the breakaway Alliance for the Future of Austria in 2005, courting greater public acceptance by pursuing more moderate policies, but in a national election in 2006, the Alliance only just scraped past the 4 percent threshold to enter parliament.

Mr Haider is survived by his wife and two daughters.

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