Another plaintiff is suing Rational Media Foundation (RMF), the parent organization of Rational Wiki, and yet again,
the plaintiff has a connection to Emil Kirkegaard.James Thompson has written for Kirkegaard's racist Mankind Quarterly. Although I think that was from a time before it was owned by Kirkegaard.
Thompson has retweeted Kirkegaard.
He's participated in five International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) annual meetings.
He's run the London Conference on Intelligence, per the Guardian. (My highlight)
The London Conference on Intelligence was said to have been run secretly for at least three years by James Thompson, an honorary senior lecturer at the university, including contributions from a researcher who has previously advocated child rape.
The researcher who has advocated child rape is later revealed in the article to be Emil Kirkegaard.
Several other plaintiffs suing RMF appeared at the London Conference on Intelligence: Jan te Nijenhuis, Michael A. Woodley of Menie and Noah Carl.
The Guardian article quotes Adam Rutherford:
The science writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford said the background of the speakers suggested that “some pseudoscientific nonsense was being discussed”.
But I frankly expected at least one of the co-authors of the
Rutherford paper to show up, since there is so much cross-over between the attendees of the London Conference and the International Society for Intelligence Research, including
Guy Madison, currently on the board of the ISIR. Madison presented a paper at the London Conference called:
Demographic, economic, and genetic factors related to national differences in ethnocentric attitudes co-authored by
Edward Dutton (current Kirkegaard employee) and
Richard Lynn who, I am not sad to say, is dead. He was well-known as an extreme racist.
In addition to two solo presentations Madison also presented a paper co-authored with
Aurelio J. Figueredo, Heitor B. F. Fernandes and Michael A. Woodley of Menie called
Darwin’s “Altruistic Words.”
Former Quillette editor Toby Young stopped by at the London Conference too.
I updated my diagram to add James Thompson.
