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### Forbidden Knowledge and the Klein Dispute
On April 23, 2017, Harris published episode 73, "Forbidden Knowledge: A Conversation with Charles Murray," presenting Murray, coauthor of *The Bell Curve*, as the victim of a taboo and treating his hereditarian claims about racial IQ differences as suppressed science. The site [[Vox]] published a critique by the researchers [[Eric Turkheimer]], [[Kathryn Paige Harden]], and [[Richard Nisbett]] calling the conversation "pseudoscientific racialist speculation," which triggered a months-long Twitter argument and a two-hour 2018 podcast confrontation between Harris and Vox editor Klein. Klein argued that the framing repackaged "America's most ancient justification for bigotry," while Harris maintained he was defending open inquiry. The episode became a touchstone of the [[Human Biodiversity|human-biodiversity]] discourse that runs through the rationalist and tech-right milieus.[^1][^2][^5]
On April 23, 2017, Harris published episode 73, "Forbidden Knowledge: A Conversation with Charles Murray," presenting Murray, coauthor of *[[The Bell Curve]]*, as the victim of a taboo and treating his hereditarian claims about racial IQ differences as suppressed science. The site [[Vox]] published a critique by the researchers [[Eric Turkheimer]], [[Kathryn Paige Harden]], and [[Richard Nisbett]] calling the conversation "pseudoscientific racialist speculation," which triggered a months-long Twitter argument and a two-hour 2018 podcast confrontation between Harris and Vox editor Klein. Klein argued that the framing repackaged "America's most ancient justification for bigotry," while Harris maintained he was defending open inquiry. The episode became a touchstone of the [[Human Biodiversity|human-biodiversity]] discourse that runs through the rationalist and tech-right milieus.[^1][^2][^5]
The Turkheimer-Harden-Nisbett essay, titled "Charles Murray is once again peddling junk science about race and IQ," ran in May 2017 and argued that the heritability of IQ within a group says nothing about the cause of differences between groups. The recorded Klein debate aired in April 2018 as a joint episode on both men's podcasts; Harris accused Klein of running a "politically correct moral panic," and Klein countered that Harris mistook his own racial and political priors for pure objectivity. The dispute solidified the line between Harris's "intellectual dark web" defense of open inquiry and the mainstream scientific position that the genetic-difference claim was unsupported.[^5][^9]