One of the abiding mysteries of the New York Times is why the PC enforcers who patrol the rest of the newspaper are somehow kept out of the Science secion.

For some years now Nicholas Wade has been reporting on how the laws of biology did not come to a screeching halt 50,000 years ago in order to prevent easly-21st-century liberals from having thoughts they are uncomfortable with. Nick even wrote a book about this.

Now here’s another Times science reporter, Amy Harmon, telling us that—good grief—”genetic information is slipping out of the laboratory and into everyday life, carrying with it the inescapable message that people of different races have different DNA.”

Yep, says Ms. Harmon: (a) there are group-statistical differences between races, (b) these differences have developed via the pressures of natural selection working on the peculiarities of small founder populations, (c) they likely include group-statistical differences in personality and behavior, and (d) all this is perfectly in accord with settled principles of biology and genetics.

Is the Times Science Editor married to somebody really important? Does he know something about the Times ownership clan they would much prefer not be made public? If neither, how does he get away with this?