List of Figures and Boxes ix

Acknowledgments x

1 Introduction: The Knowledge Trap 1

Part 1 Arguing about Right and Wrong 15

2 Logic and Moral Debate ? Attacks on Blacks 17

3 Getting Rid of Tautologies ? No Private Clubs 24

4 The Naturalistic Fallacy and Its Consequences ? be Judgmental 32

5 But that is Unnatural ? Words Best Never Said 41

Part 2 The Truth about People 49

6 Random Sample ? Quality Not Size 51

7 Intelligence Quotient ? Hanging the Intellectually Disabled 56

8 Intelligence Quotient ? and the Black/White IQ Gap 62

9 Control Group ? How Studying People Changes Them 69

10 The Sociologist ’ s Fallacy ? Ignoring the Real World 75

Part 3 The Market and Its Church 85

11 Creating a Market ? Not a Frankenstein 87

12 Market Forces ? How they Take their Revenge 96

13 Market Worship ? No Ritual Sacrifices 108

14 The Economic Collapse of 2008 117

15 What is to be Done? 130

Part 4 Enemies of Science 139

16 Reality ? What Scientists Really Say About Science 141

17 History, Science, and Evolution ? Only One Kind of Each 152

Part 5 Nations and their Goals 163

18 Understanding Nations ? Understanding Anyone 165

19 Four Cases ? Making Sense Out of Nonsense 173

20 Conclusion: Gene Debs University 183

Index 189