Despite the elites suggesting that the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment is the reason why blacks are more vaccine hesitant, Brandon et al. (2005) finds no increase in blacks’ medical mistrust after learning about it; in fact, most people in the study had never heard about it in the first place.

https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2005/brandon-tuskegee.html

Looks like I’m back on this app

Opened telegram to 200,000k new messages because I haven’t used this since the summer

Halloran et al. (2021) find a massive decline in academic achievement following pandemic school closures. Declines were far less pronounced in schools that had more options for in-person learning during the following school year

https://www.nber.org/papers/w29497

Choi et al. (2021) find that a consequence of the massive job losses blue-collar whites suffered as a result of NAFTA was a large backlash against Clinton and a shift towards Republican Party identification. These findings are similar to other papers I’ve shared (Pierce and Schott 2018; Che, Lu, Pierce et al. 2016).

https://www.iq.harvard.edu/files/harvard-iqss/files/choi-kuziemko-washington-wright_nafta_politics_8dec2020.pdf

Edward O. Wilson, the famous naturalist who wrote Sociobiology, is said to have died today at 92.

In order to withstand the onslaught of his Harvard Biology department colleague Stephen Jay Gould, Edward O. Wilson taught himself in the mid-1970s how to write like a literary intellectual. He immediately won a Pulitzer Prize for On Human Nature.

E.O. Wilson’s whole life was like that. As Bill & Ted would say: Triumphant.

https://vdare.com/posts/edward-o-wilson-rip

Woman moment
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-new-home/202112/surprising-link-between-narcissism-and-belief-in-astrology

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hispanic-voters-in-this-pennsylvania-city-are-shifting-toward-the-gop-both-parties-want-to-know-why-11640687403
Supposedly these trends are setting off “alarm bells” in the Democratic Party. The alarm bells in question…

Joe Biden is getting 60% of the Hispanic vote and not 70, very concerning! And the slight shift towards Republicans seems to be Democrat inaction on e.g. pathway to citizenship rather than Republican action. Just read the quote at the bottom of the graph

Who woulda thought?
https://www.psypost.org/2021/12/intelligence-is-a-stronger-predictor-of-academic-performance-than-self-control-study-finds-62260