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Controversial geneticist William Shockley will tape a debate with Alvin F. Poussaint '40, associate dean of the Medical School, tonight in New York...
David Susskind will moderate the discussion, which will be aired in December on WNEW, a local New York City station. Poussaint said yesterday the station arranged the debate after a debate at Harvard between Shockley and Roy Innis, national CORE director, was canceled...
...School Forum, by cancelling the debate, brought more interest and attention to Shockley and gave him publicity and now the networks have picked up on it," Poussaint said...
...debate with Innis would not expose Shockley as unscientific, but would give him a kind of legitimacy as a political opponent of Innis, as someone proposing social policy who also is an "intellectual". What results is a war of credentials--professor of physics and Nobel winner versus distinguished civil rights leader...
...universities, in the media) through spectacle rather than through airing their views in rational debate. We come to assume that speeches and discussion groups are rational because they are set in the university--where all sides are heard--and involve acknowledged experts. But in the case of Jensen-Shockley-Herrnstein one side is heard more often than others, and in the case of Shockley alone, no acknowledged expert is involved...