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31 UCLA L. Rev. 128 (1983-1984)
Can Science Be Inopportune - Constitutional Validity of Governmental Restrictions on Race-IQ Research

handle is hein.journals/uclalr31 and id is 144 raw text is: CAN SCIENCE BE INOPPORTUNE? CONSTITUTIONAL VALIDITY OF GOVERNMENTAL RESTRICTIONS ON RACE-IQ RESEARCH Richard Delgado,* Sean Bradley,** David Burkenroad,** Ron Chavez,** Bruce Doering,*** Eric Lardiere,** Robert Reeves,** Mark S. Smith,*** John Windhausen*** INTRODUCTION Fifteen years ago, an article about legal constraints on scien- tific inquiry would have been a most unlikely enterprise. From the nation's inception in a period of enlightenment, optimism, and faith in science, to the mid-1960's, science enjoyed widespread public support and esteem.' The nation welcomed the advances in health, safety, and comfort ushered in by developments in fields such as medicine, chemistry, and geology, while our imaginations were captured by discoveries in space, atomic theory, and flight. The first nuclear explosion at Alamogordo gave some pause, but the atom seemed a single genie let out of a single bottle. If the genie could not be put back in, perhaps it could be tamed, or at least kept quiet. * Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law. J.D., 1974, University of Califor- nia, Berkeley. ** UCLA School of Law, Class of 1983. *** UCLA School of Law, Class of 1984. We gratefully acknowledge the encouragement and ideas of Robert Sinsheimer and the assistance of Richard Dennis and Candace Hellstrom in the preparation of this manuscript. 1. E.g., B. HINDLE, THE PURSUIT OF SCIENCE IN REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA 1735-1789, at 381-92 (1956); T. JEFFERSON, NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA (1801); D. PRICE, THE SCIENTIFIC ESTATE (1965) (continuing prestige and influence of science); Delgado & Millen, God, Galileo and Government: Toward Constitutional Protectionfor Scientoc Inquiry, 53 WASH. L. REV. 349, 354-61 (1978) (early faith in science).