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<Quote> A controversial 2002 book titled "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" gathered existing data on IQs to map them by country. North American and Europe looked good. Sub-Saharan Africa did not. Asia shined. Critics cried racism; there's a long history of intelligence research that blurs the divide between bigotry and investigation. ... Disease rates trump all of these variables, explaining 67% of worldwide variation in intelligence, found Christopher Eppig of the University of New Mexico in a study published last year by the Royal Society in its biology journal. ... Eppig focused his "parasitic stress hypothesis" on the U.S., where average IQs range from 104 in New England to 94 in the Deep South. The result was much the same. A hodgepodge of diseases beat out wealth, differences in education and other variables to predict intelligence. </Quote> WARNING: Controversy ahead READY FOR THE BOMBSHELL? BAM: <Quote> "Anything humans do that affects parasite stress will indirectly affect IQ," says Eppig. Even better than using parasite stress alone to predict intelligence, he says, is to add to it factors like wealth, education and climate. "This last variable, climate, is both powerful and inevitable. Warm, swampy climates favor the survival of infectious organisms." </Quote> In other words, Global Warming makes people stupid. QED. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337597 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
