Adam Perkins



Adam Perkins is a HBD pseudoscientist and Islamophobe who lectures in the Neurobiology of Personality at King's College London. Perkins's has published in the controversial journal Intelligence and has been criticized for making "shockingly bad" errors in a science paper. He is the author of the book  (2015) that has been criticized for "statistical errors and incorrect conclusions", as well as "misrepresenting studies to suit his thesis".

Perkins has recently published articles in the right-wing online magazine Quillette.

Racism and Islamophobia
Perkins holds Islamophobic, anti-immigration and racist opinions, and he sparked a racism row in February 2017 for offensive comments he had posted on Twitter such as Muslim-majority countries "tend to be over-represented in crime & unemployment stats" (using a dubious source of data) and "Somalians don't perform well either side of the Atlantic". A petition (with 423 signatures) was created by the KCL Somali community demanding Perkins apologize for his Islamophobic tweets. Perkins was involved in more controversy when he spoke on a alt-right YouTube channel to spout his opposition to Muslim immigration to the West and his support for Trump.

London Conference on Intelligence
Perkins attended the pseudoscientific eugenics London Conference on Intelligence in 2016 alongside white nationalists and other far-right speakers, including James Thompson, Michael A. Woodley of Menie, Richard Lynn and Emil Kirkegaard.

Free speech
In March 2018 Perkins was in the newspapers again after he was scheduled to speak about freedom of speech organized by KCL’s Libertarian Society, but protestors shut down the event over past controversies that Perkins has been involved in: "King’s College London spokesperson said that the event was assessed as 'high risk' and was postponed due to the 'current external environment and the recent violent protest.'"

Alt-right
Aside from his anti-Muslim bigotry and support for Donald Trump, Perkins has appeared on Tara McCarthy and Stefan Molyneux's YouTube channels to promote his book The Welfare Trait, while he follows alt-right individuals on Twitter (who follow him back), including Mike Cernovich, Steve Sailer, Emil Kirkegaard and Paul Joseph Watson. Perkins also identifies as a proponent of hereditarianism and is a part of the alt-right's HBD online culture.

Criticism
Perkins has been criticized for publishing studies using flimsy evidence and erroneous statistics: