Letters To the Editor

To the Editor:

Your recent article on The Bell Curve (related story ) fails to convey the significant extent to which the pillars of this remarkable book extend to a large body of expert opinion in psychometry, behavioral genetics, and related disciplines.

Richard J. Herrnstein, long an occupant of one of the world's most distinguished chairs in psychology at Harvard University, died in mid-September of lung cancer. I suspect if he were alive and well now, he would be very much into documenting in the instance of media reviews of The Bell Curve the increasing extent to which a very frightening gap has developed between broad areas of expert opinion, on the one hand, and media confusions and...