James Thompson

"Scientific Racism" is an oxymoron. The truth cannot be racist, and lies cannot be science.

James Thompson is a HBD pseudoscientist who holds sexist and racist opinions.

Thompson has a PhD in Psychology, and his papers published in the journal Intelligence have caused some controversy. He was a senior honorary lecturer in psychology at University College London, but was stripped of this academic title over the fact he has made sexist statements on social media and controversially hosted the London Conference on Intelligence, that has been described as a "eugenics conference".

He is a regular columnist on the alt-right website The Unz Review, and his politics are far-right, e.g. on Twitter he follows white nationalists: Richard Spencer (who follows him back), Virginia Dare, American Renaissance, Brett Stevens, the Traditional Britain Group and Jared Taylor. Thompson is member of the HBD community on Twitter, and regularly retweets Hbdchick, Emil Kirkegaard, Steve Sailer and Gregory Cochran. He also sits on the Academic Advisory Council of the Ulster Institute for Social Research and is associated with its white supremacist pseudo-journal Mankind Quarterly. Thompson erroneously argues because females have on average smaller brains than males, they have lower IQs; on this topic he supports the pseudoscientific research of Richard Lynn. He also identifies as a proponent of hereditarianism and is a racialist.

London Conference on Intelligence
In 2015-2016 Thompson hosted the London Conference on Intelligence, that attracted neo-Nazis, white supremacists, Holocaust deniers and child-rape apologist Emil Kirkegaard. At the conference(s), Thompson introduced the far-right speakers with a 10 minute "Welcome and Introduction" and closing speech "Communicating our work to the public".

Mainstream interviews
Thompson has not mentioned any of his extreme views on race and sex in mainstream interviews:

Social media
He has been condemned for various sexist and racist posts on Twitter and elsewhere. Often these take the form of just asking questions, but sometimes it goes beyond that in offensiveness:
 * "Men’s brains abigger than women’s, even when controlled for bigger body size, should have higher intelligence, though evidence conflicting" (His enormous brain doesn't stop him messing up tweets though.)
 * "The lower intelligence group orients Left bc it is populated disproportionately by Leftist beneficiaries (economic and racial minorities)" (This is not merely borderline-incoherent but scientifically nonsense; the relationship between politics and intelligence is contested but there's certainly some evidence that conservatives are stupider, and it's an issue that could be approached through science, which is what Thompson is supposed to be doing, not through bullshit proof-by-assertion. )