After the Bell Curve - New York Times

Given all we know about early childhood experience, and the risk and protective effects tied to socioeconomic status and eudcation, why, then, do we spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars each year on maternal deprivation experiments in monkeys, rats and other animals?

When the variables with the most predictive value are entirely absent from a model system, shouldn't that model be abandoned?

After the Bell Curve - New York Times