HERE,
HERE, and
HERE.
Quick summary: He had a column at Psychology Today, and they fired him for saying politically incorrect stuff, then some time later he got a column at BigThink, and all their liberal readers evidently had a series of hissy-fits, and... Bigthink just couldn't handle an actual big thinker, so now they've fired him, saying:
The End of a Bold Experiment: Big Think and Satoshi Kanazawa
Thinking big involves taking risks, and taking risks requires a certain openness to failure. I believe it is an imperative to take such risks today because our personal welfare is directly tied to our ability to get smarter. The Information Industrial Complex (media and education), I believe, is increasingly missing the opportunity to save itself and better serve all of us. And so it is in the spirit of risk-taking that Big Think is always on the lookout for bold and clear voices, people who see the world through the lens of big ideas and who are able to express those ideas in a provocative, counterintuitive and poetic voice.
And it keeps going on HERE. The only coherent reason they cite, if you read the whole thing, is "faulty science" on his part, which I'm in no position to judge, but you know what? I'll bet that if he'd used the same "faulty science" to prove the universal equality of the human races, or the nonexistence of human races, or equal mathematical ability of the sexes, or that nothing about human beings is genetically determined (except, of course, for homosexuality), or some other trendy wine-and-cheese cliché, nobody would have dreamed of firing him.
I think we all ought to write to BigThink and tell them to think bigger.

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