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Dr. William Shockley on Race, IQ, and Eugenics

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Shockley created the transistor, formed the pioneering and archetypal start-up in Shockley Semiconductor, which led to Fairchild and eventually formed Intel. How was is possible for such a brilliant man to hold views on race that were so distorted and peddle discredited pseudo-science with such conviction after winning the Nobel Prize?

expertise in one domain doesn't transfer to another and Bertrand Russell is the Pope

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