If you've followed his work for a while, it's been obvious that Scott Alexander is, or at least was, secretly a hereditarian. If all the secret hereditarian intellectuals were honest, their numbers would be enough to stop themselves from being ruined... https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/02/backstabber-brennan-knifes-scott-alexander-with-2014-email/

...I understand why they are not, anyone who does this alone probably will be ruined and these people aren't willing to make that sacrifice. Still, it's a shame that these sorts of people are an important cause of why our society is ruled by lies. And it's...

...It's ironic that the same people who wont tell the truth despite knowing it often manage to gain a reputation for rationally pursuing truth even when inconvenient due to their calculated objections to the most obviously insane elements of the status quo.

Sadly, each generation the cost of telling the truth about these things increases, due in part to the things scared intellectuals allow to happen despite knowing better, and so the chance any serious intellectual rebellion grows ever smaller. A problem with no likely solution.