“Racism is creeping back into mainstream science — we have to stop it”
“Over the past year I have been investigating this tight, well-connected cabal of people, who nowadays call themselves “race realists”, reflecting their view that the scientific evidence is on their side. Their work is routinely published by Mankind Quarterly, a marginal journal operating since the 1960s, when it was founded by a group of scientists disgruntled with the fact that mainstream journals were unwilling to publish their controversial ideas…
Lynn sits on the editorial advisory board of Personality and Individual Differences, produced by Elsevier — one of the world’s largest scientific publishers, whose titles include the highly respected journals the Lancet and Cell. Among his papers was The Intelligence of American Jews (2004), arguing that “Jews have a higher average level of verbal intelligence than non-Jewish whites”…
An Elsevier spokesperson says editorial board members are not involved in making decisions about which articles will be published: “Their role is focused on reflecting the academic debate that takes place within the communities’ domain that the journal serves.” The implication is that the kind of papers written by Meisenberg and Lynn must be a part of mainstream discussion.”
We should probably also be doing more research about how often uteruses stop working because their owners are getting too many degrees. Whether or not short people have poor leadership skills. If people with red hair are angrier. Etc…
Also, this is why physical scientists need to take social science classes, or at least respect social science enough to recognize the existence of whole fields of study and consider consulting one of many, many published experts before expounding their own random theories.
Related: “Born that way? ‘Scientific’ racism is creeping back into our thinking. Here’s what to watch out for.”; “Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot”; “Racism in the Research Lab”
