Richard Lynn
Richard Lynn (1930–) is a British white supremacist, psychologist, eugenicist, and self-described "race realist" who formerly taught at the University of Ulster. A former editor-in-chief of the prominent racist pseudojournal Mankind Quarterly, and an interviewee of many fascist and neo-Nazi groups, Lynn has been claiming for decades that genetics is responsible for racial inequality and international wealth inequality.
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Overview
Unlike many other researchers with provocative conclusions about race, Lynn is willing to advocate for high-IQ, "genetically superior" societies closing their borders to keep the low-IQ inferior people out.[1] He is probably best known for his work with Tatu Vanhanen,
Examples of shoddy research
Shoddy "research" he's published that has been shot down by other researchers include the following:
- His work on African IQs, which uses horrible samples to validate preconcieved biases.
- A study claiming to show that men are smarter than women — which was slammed by Nature as "simple, utter hogwash"[6]
- Claiming that psychopathic personality is more common among blacks than whites.[7][8]
- A study claiming to validate stereotypes about Asians having shorter dicks than whites, and blacks longer dicks than whites. Seriously. Unsurprisingly, this "study" was based on two highly questionable sources, including a submission-based website that cited multiple nonexistent sources, and misrepresented other sources that actually exist.[9]
References
- SPLC profile
- The estimates are here, FWIW
- Controversial study of African IQ levels is 'deeply flawed'
- Neo-Nazis!
- "Black Intellectual Genocide: An Essay Review of IQ and the Wealth of Nations "
- Who has the bigger brain?
- Personality, Intelligence And "Race Realism", Psychology Today
- Are there racial and ethnic differences in psychopathic personality? A critique of Lynn's (2002) racial and ethnic differences in psychopathic personality, Marvin Zuckerman, October 2003, Personality and Individual Differences, pp. 1463-9, doi:10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00362-8
- The Pseudoscience of Race Differences in Penis Size
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