Opinion: Listen: Why is eugenics still alive and well in scientific publishing?
While the bogus science of eugenics — the idea that the human race can be improved through selective reproduction — has been nearly universally discredited, remnants of this belief system are still alive and well in modern research. One of the most glaring examples of this is the work of academic psychologist Richard Lynn.
Lynn’s work focused on researching human intelligence and the “national IQ” database he compiled on IQ scores from many countries has been cited in thousands of papers. This research was both deeply flawed and explicitly biased toward his belief that white, European people had higher intelligence.
