Madge the Palmolive-obsessed manicurist is likely only familiar to Americans of a certain age so I will share this video to illustrate her famous phrase: "you're soaking in it."
It was news to me that the Madge actor Jan Miner played that role for thirty freaking years.
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| Kathryn Paige Harden & Abdel Abdellaoui need to share this with their friend and colleague Razib Khan |
Part 5 of this series "What happened to Adam Rutherford?" is about the hereditarian belief that we live in a meritocracy and so environmental factors are no longer as significant as genetic causation in determining human socio-economic status and intelligence - as determined by "educational attainment."
I've discovered quite a bit about the Rutherford paper co-authors since I began this series What happened to Adam Rutherford?
And so in this part we will see that there is no person too racist that the authors of the Rutherford paper won't work with them, and no media outlet or organization too racist that they will refuse to use it to advance their careers.
Abdel Abdellaoui - a friend of Razib Khan, according to Khan on the podcast on which Abdellaoui appeared. Abdellaoui signed onto Khan's attack on Scientific American for daring to discuss E. O. Wilson's racism.It's true that Abdelloaui raised a stink about Emil Kirkegaard showing up at annual meetings of the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISR), but that doesn't stop him from being a friend of Khan, who has taken money from Kirkegaard via Aporia; nor promoting the work of Richard Haier, a racist bigwig at the ISIR. And then there's the fact that ISIR meetings always include racists, even infamous ones like Michael Woodley, who is, according to the NYTimes, A Racist Researcher, Exposed by a Mass Shooting. And Kirkegaard participated in the 2024 ISIR meeting in spite of Abdellaoui.
Abdellaoui can be seen on Twitter in 2020 promoting an anti-race pseudoscience message from Kathryn Paige Harden and Philipp Koellinger. And yet both Abdellaoui and Harden have each been called a friend by Razib Khan and both are friendly colleagues of Khan, with Harden thanking him in the acknowledgments of her book The Genetic Lottery and offering to promote Khan's career.
It appears to concern neither Harden nor Abdellaoui that Razib Khan's entire career has been devoted to promoting race pseudoscience since at least when racist Holocaust-denying plutocrat Ron Unz (a former student of racist E. O. Wilson) funded Khan's education.
The cognitive disconnect is absolutely mind-boggling. Do they think other people won't find out or won't care that they are supportive colleagues of a blatant racist?
This seems to be a thing hereditarians do - publicly declare your opposition to racists and race pseudoscience while working alongside or even promoting racists.
Martin Kolk - can be seen on X/Twitter in October 2024 apparently very annoyed about the fact that Sapiens magazine published an article discussing the possible health repercussions of systemic racism, but I have found the least evidence (so far) of his working directly with racists compared to the other Rutherford paper co-authors.
Hilary C. Martin - signed Razib Khan's attack on Scientific American for pointing out E. O. Wilson's racism. Co-authored a paper with Rosalind Arden, who is a board member of the ISIR, a Quillette author, a defender of racist extremist Linda Gottfredson - Arden also co-authored a paper with Gottfredson and Geoffrey Miller.
We know that on average. Blacks score around 15 points lower on IQ type tests than Whites. We know that on average. East Asians score around 7 points higher than Whites on IQ type tests. We do not have any direct evidence that the causes of these differences are genetic. However these differences are fairly stable. We know too that if we invoke socio-economic status and racism as the explanation for lower average test performance, then the same factors should lower the average scores of East Asians wherever they have suffered those privations. But East Asians' average scores do not look that way, even in the presence of those factors. I don't know of any evidence that contradicts the genetic hypothesis but I know of much that supports it.
Comparing the privations of Black Americans to other ethnic groups as if they are exactly equivalent is a favorite race pseudoscience trick that Arden pulls. You can see Aporia ghoul Bo Winegard's brother Ben Winegard trying the same trick here.
Melinda C. Mills - Co-authored at least two papers with anti-immigrant far-right political activist Tobias Wolfram. See the section on Felix C. Tropf below, Tropf has worked much more often with Wolfram.
Michael Muthukrishna - promoted his book by giving an interview to racist Quillette and racist Razib Khan.
Felix C. Tropf - gave a presentation at the 2023 annual meeting of the ISIR with Tobias Wolfram called 250 words written at age eleven predict intelligence and final educational attainment close to expert assessment. Tropf has co-authored multiple papers with Wolfram. Wolfram is discussed in the investigative report by HOPE not hate on eugenicists:
We can reveal that Wolfram has been a member of the closed Telegram chat of Martin Sellner, the Austrian far-right activist who leads the Identitarian Movement (Identitäre Bewegung). In January 2024, Wolfram posted the anti-immigrant slogan “we were never asked” in the channel, which is closed to members of the public. He posted again in the same chat in April to criticise a leaflet organising a counter-protest against Martin Sellner in Steyregg, Austria.
Per the article, Wolfram is now working for racist Jonathan Anomaly's eugenics company.
Karin J. H. Verweij - Verweij co-authored a paper with Brendan P. Zietsch (see below) plus four ISIR annual meeting participants, Fredrik Ullén (five meetings), Miriam A. Mosing (two meetings), Nancy Pedersen (three meetings) and ISIR board member Guy Madison (eight meetings) who has co-authored a paper with racist extremist Edward Dutton, (who currently works for Emil Kirkegaard) as well as participating in the infamously racist London Conference on Intelligence. Madison can be found co-authoring a paper in defense of race pseudoscience in Intelligence (the journal associated with the ISIR) with a metric shit-ton of hardcore racists.
Verweij also published in Intelligence. One of Verweij's co-authors for the Intelligence paper is David Hugh-Jones seen on his Substack having a friendly exchange with the neo-Nazi ghouls of Aporia.
Peter M. Visscher - Signed onto Razib Khan's attack on Scientific American; particpated in two ISIR annual meetings; and co-authored a paper with ISIR annual meeting regular Ian Deary. Michael Woodley was singled out by the NYTimes because his work was cited by the racist Buffalo shooter but several other ISIR participants including Deary were cited in the shooter's manifesto.
It's a tiny tiny hereditarian world.
So eight of the ten authors of the Rutherford paper have at least one direct connection to a racist person or organization. Let's add it up:
- Abdel Abdellaoui - ISIR, Razib Khan
- Hilary C. Martin - Razib Khan, Rosalind Arden
- Melinda C. Mills - Tobias Wolfram
- Michael Muthukrishna - Quillette, Razib Khan
- Felix C. Tropf - Tobias Wolfram, ISIR
- Karin J. H. Verweij - Guy Madison, Intelligence (journal)
- Peter M. Visscher - ISIR, Razib Khan
- Brendan P. Zietsch - Rosalind Arden, Geoffrey Miller
I did not examine every one of the hundreds of co-authors that these eight have worked with. If I did, I suspect I'd discover even more racist connections. But I basically just looked for names I had seen elsewhere in connection to race pseudoscience. Even so, it's an impressive number of racist connections.
Now I don't believe Adam Rutherford went out of his way to find co-authors who had racist connections. If anything, he would have sought to avoid those with racist connections. And yet there they are, racist connections.
I think it should be clear that the reason there are so many racist connections is because behavioral genetics is permeated through and through with racists.
And by "racist" I don't mean people who said a bad word once or have bigoted opinions. These are professional, politically motivated racists. Rosalind Arden, Razib Khan, Guy Madison, Geoffrey Miller, Tobias Wolfram, the people who run ISIR, Intelligence and Quillette don't simply want to do science. They want to promote "science" they think will prove their racist beliefs. And we know for certain that Khan and Wolfram have worked for well-funded racists. It's likely others in this list have too. Emil Kirkegaard has a plutocrat-funded organization dedicated to promoting race pseudoscience, especially through behavioral genetics.
And so you cannot have a career as a behavioral geneticist without soaking in racism.
But what about Adam Rutherford? What did happen to Adam Rutherford? I'll get into that after I talk about twin studies in the next part.
Update - circumstances force me to change the subject of part 7 to What happened to Adam Rutherford? part 7: Abdel Abdellaoui and his racist allies come for me.
