Jared Taylor's Unpublished Letter to the Driftwood

To the Editor:

In his Sept. 12^th letter, Chancellor O'Brien of the University of New Orleans attacks the views of UNO professor, Edward Miller, in the most extravagant terms. "I personally find them to be reprehensible," he writes, and adds that "prejudice and bias have no place in a university learning environment." Can Chancellor O'Brien be unaware of how breathtaking an act of "prejudice and bias" he has, himself, committed?

Professor Miller has reported correlations between race, head size, and IQ. These correlations apparently displease Chancellor O'Brien. In a "university learning environment," the chancellor has two legitimate options: demonstrate that either Prof. Miller's facts or his interpretations are wrong. Chancellor O'Brien has made no attempt to do either. Instead, he calls Prof. Miller's views "reprehensible." This is precisely the kind of "prejudice and bias"-known even to the ancients as the fallacy of ad hominem argument-from which the "university learning environment" should be entirely free.

By trampling on the most elementary standards of scientific inquiry and intellectual exchange, Chancellor O'Brien has set a miserable example for the entire UNO community.

Jared Taylor, Editor
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