{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Frealclearinvestigations.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F137-fQQxpTK2","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Is Talking About Group Identity and IQ a Crime? with Nathan Cofnas","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/69be5d4f-b498-44bc-b3b5-f614ce9a7957/cd4f64fe-c0a1-4661-a715-6469d91d83e9/cropped_1790995601402.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/5828810e-9b3a-48fa-9ee4-4381fa320a7e\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Is Talking About Group Identity and IQ a Crime? with Nathan Cofnas\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI contributor John Murawski speak with Nathan Cofnas about his academic research into group identity and IQ – work that is so controversial that he may be facing criminal charges in Europe.\n\nOn the news roundup, Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney discuss a Free Press article detailing the success of America’s post-all-out-bombing strategy in Iran, which has crippled Iran’s economy while restoring almost all of the pre-war flow of oil from the region. They also discuss Varney’s new article for RCI which suggests how like-minded groups – in this case journalists, nonprofits and lawyers that believe insurance companies do not treat their customers fairly – piggyback on each other’s work to amplify their message in ways that may raise ethical concerns.\n\n\n00:00 Open\n02:10 News Roundup: Iran Sanctions, Oil Flows, and the Munitions Narrative\n04:24 Diesel Prices, CNN's Spin, and Results-Oriented Journalism\n05:50 The Clarkson Law Firm: Turning Investigative Journalism into Lawsuits\n16:20 Introducing Nathan Cafras and the Cambridge Plagiarism Scandal\n20:43 What IQ Actually Measures\n27:00 The \"Equality Thesis\"\n33:05 Race and IQ\n36:44 Do IQ Tests Have Cultural Bias?\n44:27 \"The Right's Stupidity Problem\"\n48:14 Affirmative Action and the Logic of the Equality Thesis\n55:04 Why There's No Conservative New York Times\n1:02:40 Hereditarianism, Selective Immigration, and the Fight Against Wokeism\n1:07:24 Closing & Thanks\n\nArticles Discussed in This Podcast:\n·       Nathan Cofnas: Research on group differences in intelligence: A defense of free inquiry\nhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09515089.2019.1697803\n\n·       Nathan Cofnas: Why We Need to Talk about the Right’s Stupidity Problem\nhttps://ncofnas.com/p/why-we-need-to-talk-about-the-rights\n\n·       Nathan Cofnas: Beating Woke with Facts and Logic\nhttps://ncofnas.com/p/beating-woke-with-facts-and-logic\n\n·       Natha Cofnas: DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge\nhttps://ncofnas.com/p/dei-fraud-and-cover-up-at-cambridge\n\n·       Free Press: The Strait of Hormuz Is Open \nhttps://www.thefp.com/p/the-strait-of-hormuz-is-open?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics\n\n·       James Varney/RCI: Media Law: How One Firm’s Lawsuits Echo Investigative Journalism\nhttps://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/09/29/media_law_how_one_firms_lawsuits_echo_investigative_journalism_1208788.html\n"}