Raceology: Dr. William Shockley Debates Dr. Frances Welsing on Race, and Dysgenics (1974)

    As I'm writing the very belated raceology blog anniversary post, which should have have happened over half of a year ago, I wanted to also post this video and to remember the Nobel Prize winning physicist Dr. William Shockley, (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989). He was the co-inventor of the transistor, which is used in all modern day computing, and electronic technology. He was a professor at Stanford, and at one point became very concerned with the problem of dysgenics in society.  He started to do research, and he found evidence that suggested that Blacks tend to be less intelligent than Whites on average, and that intelligence is largely hereditary.  He also found evidence to suggest that Blacks seem to have a higher rate of dysgenic fertility than Whites.  The graphic he liked to use showed that the fertility rate of rural and less educated Black females was much higher than that of the college educated Black females. This ratio for Blacks was significantly worse than what it was for Whites.

   Naturally, as expected he was rebuked for having these positions and I could probably write a few pages on some of what happened with him.  But instead I'll let him speak for himself here, when he got a chance to debate Dr. Frances Welsing, who had her own "unique" theory of genetics that was widely unaccepted, on an African American TV program.

   I should also point out of where the term "raceology" used on this blog comes from, well it's Dr. Shockley!  Raceology. n. A scientific analysis of racial differences. Before I knew of the research of Dr. Rushton, and Dr. Lynn, or Dr. Jensen I was fascinated by Dr. Shockley and his theories of dysgenics, and racial differences. It was through his work in part that I came to read more of the modern research into racial science. So there you have it, the name and word raceology, comes from Dr. Shockley.  Enjoy the video!





Note: the video is not on my YouTube channel but someone else's.