The gene drain
LETTERS
From Lord Snow, Sam Wiggs, Canon H. 4. Blair, the Rev Kenneth Meiklejohn, Mrs B. E. Adams, Joy Bath, Cdr Robin Bousfield, RN, Sir Frederic Bennett, MP, Richard Walker, George Chowdharay-Best. T. C. Skeffington- Lodge, Robert E. Walters. Melvin J. Lasky, Professor John A. Davis. Martin Wallace, Rupert Jackson, Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper. Ralph Roney. Michael Foot, MP, Graham Hutton, Val Gielgud.
Sir: In your correspondence columns (2 May), Dr. Shahak makes some reference to a re- mark of mine. He seems to have no knowledge of the literature on the subject of biogenetics, either in general or in relation to some groups of Jewish People: I think can only refer him to The Creative Elite, by Nathaniel Weyl (Public Affairs Press, Washington DC 1966). This book contains a long discussion about the Jewish situation, both historically and in the contemporary United States.
While I am about it, 1 should like to pre- dict - that biogenetics is going to become a. dominating controversy - over the next thirty years.- very much as Darwinism was in the middle of the nineteenth century. It is interest- ing to see people already casting themselves for the role, of Bishop Wilberforce. Like Wilber- force, they, seem to find their position more congenial if they keep themselves in bland ignorance of the subject they are discussing.
C. P. Snow Macmillan and Co Ltd, Little Essex Street, London. WC2
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