Should some areas be off limits to science due to social backlash (e.g difference in intelligence in races)?

Question

Fury at DNA pioneer's theory: Africans are less intelligent than Westerners

http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3067222.ece

Answer 1

h**l no! I am so tired of the P.C. people dictating policy! If the truth hurts- too bad!

Answer 2

No. Just becuase something is unpopular doesn't mean it shouldn't be un-biasedly explored. I think this subject has been explored and it was concluded that Africans are not genetically disadvantaged. As far as intelligence goes, well, theres lots of poeple who are less intelligent than others, that has nothing to do with race, thats education. But no, there should not be areas off limits to science, unless that science hurts people, like like the experiamnts the n**i's did, then that shouldnt be explored.

Answer 3

NO.   Africans may have scored lower in "intellegence" due to the fact that they are still in some areas, a primitive people.  The bush people do not go to college or work on Wall Street.  Funny how they have survived all these years like they haver.  I know I wouldn't last a week in the bush.  This is a sociology topic, relative to culture, norms, etc.

Answer 4

Nothing should be off limits. Censorship, blacklisting and the like are at the opposite (and WRONG!!!) end of the reason--irrationality spectrum.