Murray Rothbard, Lew Rockwell and Scientific Racism

In his review of Herrnstein and Murray's 'The Bell Curve', Murray Rothbard praised the book for "expressing in massively stupefying scholarly detail what everyone has always known but couldn't dare to express about race, intelligence, and heritability". Rothbard reached the following conclusion:

SO: WHY TALK ABOUT RACE AT ALL?

If, then, the Race Question is really a problem for statists and not for paleos, why should we talk about the race matter at all? Why should it be a political concern for us; why not leave the issue entirely to the scientists?

Two reasons we have already mentioned; to celebrate the victory of freedom of inquiry and of truth for its own sake; and a bullet through the heart of the egalitarian-socialist project. But there is a third reason as well: as a powerful defense of the results of the free market. If and when we as populists and libertarians abolish the welfare state in all of its aspects, and property rights and the free market shall be triumphant once more, many individuals and groups will predictably not like the end result. In that case, those ethnic and other groups who might be concentrated in lower-income or less prestigious occupations, guided by their socialistic mentors, will predictably raise the cry that free-market capitalism is evil and "discriminatory" and that therefore collectivism is needed to redress the balance. In that case, the intelligence argument will become useful to defend the market economy and the free society from ignorant or self-serving attacks. In short; racialist science is properly not an act of aggression or a cover for oppression of one group over another, but, on the contrary, an operation in defense of private property against assaults by aggressors.

Truck Driver Killed By CO from Diesel Exhaust

Death by diesel exhaust was proven in this case, which presented a blood test showing a 67% concentration of carboxyhemoglobin in the victim's blood. It also admitted "testing by Bredemeyer and Miller on a Freightliner truck with a Detroit Diesel engine, Series 60" which showed "that the truck could produce enough carbon monoxide to kill a person." Furthermore, Berg's site has this study, which states that "The available literature concerning the CO content of diesel fuel recognizes its potential lethality under certain circumstances." Berg himself agrees that "carbon monoxide levels in Diesel exhaust can kill under heavy engine loads (Buchanan is mistaken in this regard)", although he thinks that it is absolutely absurd to use diesel exhaust for mass murder.

Consequently, although we still regard the diesel issue to be irrelevant, we can categorically state that diesel exhaust can kill humans, contrary to the claims made by Pat Buchanan, Arnulf Neumaier and your average CODOH chimp [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. This does not prove that diesel kills as efficiently as gasoline, nor does it prove the timescale of killing, but it removes the simplistic canard often seen on Internet forums that diesel cannot kill at all. This accidental death by diesel exhaust also makes it harder to claim that diesels could not have been adapted for mass gassings (although we don't claim they were).