Obama’s “Science” Advisor: Kids from Big Families Have Lower IQs

[bijou]

Let’s look at the upside here. At least finally someone can explain the Kennedys.

    John P. Holdren, the top science adviser to President Barack Obama, wrote in a book he co-authored with population control advocates Paul and Anne Ehrlich that children from larger families have lower IQs.

    The book—”Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions”—argued that the United States government had a “responsibility to halt the growth of the American population.”

    “It surely is no accident that so many of the most successful individuals are first or only children,” wrote Holdren and the Ehrlichs, “nor that children of large families (particularly with more than four children), whatever their economic status, on the average perform less well in school and show lower I.Q. scores than their peers from small families.”

    Holdren and the Ehrlichs published “Human Ecology” with W.H. Freeman and Company in 1973. In June 2000, a study published in American Pyschologist debunked the notion that children in larger families have lower I.Q.s. But when Holdren appeared in the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in 2009 for a confirmation hearing on his appointment to run the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, he continued to argue for the benefits of “smaller families” on other bases.  ...

http://www.jammiewf.com/2012/obamas-science-advisor-kids-from-big-families-have-lower-iqs/

[thundley4]

Would this also apply to those "families" that have multiple baby daddies through one mother?  That might explain them voting for Democrats.

[Karin]

John Holdren!  One of the most dangerous and wackiest of the czars.  I've been keeping an eye on him ever since the beginning.  Those population nazis are chilling.  "Just enough of me, way too much of you."  That kind of thinking leads to concentration camps and genocide. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

“It surely is no accident that so many of the most successful individuals are first or only children,” wrote Holdren and the Ehrlichs

It probably has a whole lot more to do with the family being able to pour all its resources into one kid, and obsessively promoting their education and career like they were the parent's alter-ego, ala Dugout Doug MacArthur and his hover-mumsie.