Elsevier investigates journals by scientist who created discredited rankings of countries’ intelligence
A leading academic publisher is reviewing its decision to publish research papers by the late British professor Richard Lynn, an influential figure in the discredited field of “race science” who argued western civilisation was threatened by genetically inferior ethnic groups.
There have been repeated calls for publishers to retract Lynn’s papers or flag concerns about their reliability with warning notices. Academics who have evaluated his papers allege that Lynn, who died last year, systematically biased data to produce implausibly low IQ scores for sub-Saharan nations. Prof Rebecca Sear, president of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association and a psychologist at Brunel University, who is among those who demanded the retraction of Lynn’s work in June, said the review was “very long overdue”.
The 2010 iteration of the dataset asserted an average national IQ of 60 for Malawi, 64 for Mozambique and 69 for Nigeria – all below the typical threshold for intellectual disability. “It is wholly implausible that an entire world region should, on average, be on the verge of intellectual impairment,” wrote Sear in a critique of the 2019 edition.
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