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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Hannah Devlin and David Pegg

Publisher reviews national IQ research by British ‘race scientist’ Richard Lynn

Richard Lynn.
Richard Lynn argued western civilisation was threatened by genetically inferior ethnic groups. Photograph: Matt Gibson

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.

Elsevier provides access to more than 100 papers by Lynn, including several iterations of his “national IQ” dataset, which purports to show wide variations in IQ between different countries but which has been criticised by mainstream scientists for serious flaws in its methodology.

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