You don’t need eugenics to solve the problem; better maternity leave options alone would severely delay it, and we may be close to our salvation anyway (genetic engineering and general AI).

Your intelligence is correlated to that of your parents; this has been demonstrated empirically beyond any reasonable doubt. Saying that there are exceptions to the rule matters as much as a rebuttal as saying that drunk driving isn’t bad because sometimes drunk drivers don’t kill anyone.

This is an embarrassingly bad article that tries to substitute gut-reaction sensibilities for any semblance of facts or argument. Tell me, Matt, why didn’t you bother to take literally 15 minutes to do some basic research into the subject matter? You know, research that would uncover the strongly replicated…