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#73 — Forbidden Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Coming Apart - The Thesis of the Bell Curve

The book is the opposite of a white supremacist neo-Nazi book and you have been called both of those things. So let's get into it. What was your basic thesis in the bell curve? The thesis of the bell curve actually is very similar to the thesis of coming apart, which hardly anybody noticed. And we spend the first eight chapters, well, not we first we spend three or four chapters, talking about the nature of the cognitive elite. That essentially was the, well, that's a thesis of that book.

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