Today it is fashionable in some places to say that our minds are shaped by our genes; that men are born to think differently than women, or that Africans are born to think less than Asians.

Such claims are pure bullshit. Scientists have repeatedly shown that our minds are more unique than our fingerprints. In the words of Dr. Roger Sperry, the Nobel laureate who discovered left versus right brain specialization, "the individuality inherent in our brain networks makes that of fingerprints or facial gestures gross and simple by comparison." The genes that code our genitals, or our melanin, have nothing to do with the genes that code our minds.

Books like The Bell Curve and You Don't Understand are just big fat stereotypes. Blanket statements are made about groups of similar looking people, and then anecdotes or biased data are dredged up to justify the stereotypes. Stereotypes are not science. A stereotype cannot be true unless everyone who looks a certain way acts the same way. This is never the case.