Nathan Cofnas's Revolution: Science, Heredity, and the Values of Liberal Society
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TL;DR
- Jason Arday, the youngest black professor at Cambridge, was found dead after being exposed for plagiarism and academic fraud, leading to his resignation.
- The scandal highlights a societal divide between "facts versus feelings" and a conflict between academic ideology and public perception.
- Researcher Nathan Cofnas, who exposed Arday, advocates for a "hereditarian revolution" based on advancements in the science of heredity, challenging the "blank slate" theory of human nature.
- Cofnas believes a paradigm shift is occurring where scientific understanding of heredity and potential group differences will become more mainstream.
- The article discusses the potential ethical and political challenges of accepting that abilities may be unequally distributed at scale, and the need to safeguard liberal values in light of these scientific developments.