REPLY TO WILLERMAN
Abstract
<p>I never asserted that I was "sure" about the efficacy of the controls involved; I protested at Willerman's failure to mention in a review of my book the facts that I considered most important. He offers no explanation for this strange omission. He may be right as regards the points of substance he raises, although I do not think so; there is no space here to discuss this complex issue in detail.</p> <p>As regards the Irish, I was not concerned with what might happen in one generation, but with what might have happened over 300 years. Furthermore, I do not consider that emigration was the only factor responsible for the low IQ of the Irish today; for centuries the best and most intelligent have been killed by the English; and, for even longer many of the most intelligent males have been destined for priesthood, and hence celibacy. These factors together must have had a dysgenic influence, although it would be difficult to assign any precise value to it.</p>