MEMO FROM TO: :

J. LEDERBERG uw RC
GENETICS DEPARTMENT A Ricnsen RO
STANFORD UNIVERSITY

STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

 

JUL 10 970

 

Dear Arthur:
_ ... Having first seen 1 only a. passing news
..paragraph on it, I_was. just. about. to. write
you for a copy of your testimony when this
_Came across my desk. I wish some of your
critics found as much emphasis on the cau-
.tionary_remarks I_have bracketed. (which de-
tine the zone-of our-mutual agreement as on
_the. hypotheses that you offer here with
.. great... tg EEE SRR OR Perhaps. the on
eet thing ‘about. your testimony is that- it
wag. sponsored _by- a notorious racist,.and. I
_hope. this. will not obscure the real merit
—_of your proposal for unbiased research on
~ individual. differences, urt th whol, | of emer
Coctecar ! keane

“I"hope you will, forgive me for the remark
_ that more aggressive statements of the hypo-
“thesis of a large genetic factor in inter-
~Yacial difference will interfere with the de-
tachment we all baday— needs

 

___In that. game_spirit, I am_sorry for. the.

. tone with, which my remarks were colored,. in
the context of the recent Life article...
_Was not. misquated (as best I_can recall) but

_Idid_not.-have_an-opportunity to read the.
- overall text, and my critical remarks. came
-- Out with: edge than I...
_would_ have. co! 1dc —I_thank you may have

-- #0mMe.. sympathy for that—kind of problem in.
communications vis journalistic channels «

_ Nor would T assign any malice to {he writer

 

ral quotes, and I believe he caught my main
corrections.)