Nicholas Wade worked as an editor and science journalist at the New York Times from 1982 to 2012. He is the author of several books including A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History. His megaviral 2021 article, “The Origin of COVID: Did People or Nature Open Pandora’s Box at Wuhan?,” played a major role in making the lab-leak theory mainstream. Wade initially self-published “The Origin of COVID” on Medium after it was rejected from “every outlet [he] could think of, left, right, and center.”
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:51 Social behavior vs. IQ
8:51 Rice vs. wheat farmers
16:14 Persistent race differences
19:30 Environmental explanations
28:55 Response to A Troublesome Inheritance
36:43 Academic censorship
39:53 Reforming academia
49:59 Origins of race denial
58:11 Making race realism mainstream
1:01:15 A racial hierarchy?
1:11:04 Academia after race realism
1:13:50 Groupthink and resistance to the lab-leak theory
1:20:43 Conclusion
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