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InhaltsangabeList of Figures and Boxes ix Acknowledgments x 1 Introduction: The Knowledge Trap 1 Part 1 Arguing about Right and Wrong 15 2 Logic and Moral Debate - Attacks on Blacks 17 3 Getting Rid of Tautologies - No Private Clubs 24 4 The Naturalistic Fallacy and Its Consequences - be Judgmental 32 5 But that is Unnatural - Words Best Never Said 41 Part 2 The Truth about People 49 6 Random Sample - Quality Not Size 51 7 Intelligence Quotient - Hanging the Intellectually Disabled 56 8 Intelligence Quotient - and the Black/White IQ Gap 62 9 Control Group - How Studying People Changes Them 69 10 The Sociologist ' s Fallacy - Ignoring the Real World 75 Part 3 The Market and Its Church 85 11 Creating a Market - Not a Frankenstein 87 12 Market Forces - How they Take their Revenge 96 13 Market Worship - No Ritual Sacrifices 108 14 The Economic Collapse of 2008 117 15 What is to be Done? 130 Part 4 Enemies of Science 139 16 Reality What Scientists Really Say About Science 141 17 History, Science, and Evolution - Only One Kind of Each 152 Part 5 Nations and their Goals 163 18 Understanding Nations - Understanding Anyone 165 19 Four Cases - Making Sense Out of Nonsense 173 20 Conclusion: Gene Debs University 183 Index 189