By Steve Sailer
06/24/2009
It’s interesting to compare the number of hits turned up by Google for searches of two figures important in the history of IQ research:In contrast to Burt, Rick Heber turned out to be a conman who was sent to federal prison for stealing from the Milwaukee Project. In a way, Heber’s criminality makes the Milwaukee Project a little more usable to nurturists, since the costs of the project — $14 million supposedly spent on just 40 children over a half dozen years beginning in the relatively low-cost 1960s — were so insanely high that they couldn’t possibly be replicated on a mass scale. So, knowing that Heber was skimming some of that $14 million actually makes the Milwaukee Project look less ridiculous on the cost front. However, that knowledge also raises questions about it on the findings front. So, Heber’s crimes have, unlike whatever it was that Burt did, been shoved down the Memory Hole.
A Google search of
"Cyril Burt" scandal
turns up 2,310 hits.
Meanwhile, "Rick Heber" scandal
turns up 26 hits.
They say history is written by the winners, but I say that history is written by the history-writers.
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