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Cambridge University Press is the world's oldest publishing house (since 1534) and the second-largest university press in the world. It publishes over 50,000 titles from authors in 100 countries,[1] including numerous Nobel Prize winners.[2] It also publishes numerous academic journals.Wikipedia It is one of two privileged pressesWikipedia in the United Kingdom, along with the Oxford University Press.

Publishing of pseudoscience[edit]

Although it is normally considered a respectable academic publisher, in recent years, it has published a few books espousing racialism and hereditarianism, some of them written by known white nationalists and pseudoscientists, with extensive citations to "research" bankrolled by the white supremacist[3][4] Pioneer Fund. These include the following:

Journal of Biosocial Science[edit]

Although Cambridge University Press publishes some racialist pseudoscience, this does not completely invalidate their positive reputation. They normally publish legitimate scientific and academic works, and the publication of pseudoscience is generally an inverse stopped clock moment. One can reasonably expect any such large publishing operation to fail occasionally.

See also[edit]

  • Elsevier — another venerable publishing outfit that has published a pseudojournal

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. "Press Annual Report". Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  2. "Publisher of more than 170 Nobel Prize Laureates". Cambridge University Press & Assessment. 2018.
  3. Miller, Adam. "The Pioneer Fund: Bankrolling the Professors of Hate." Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 6 (1994): 58-61.
  4. Pioneer Fund - Southern Poverty Law Center
  5. Te Nijenhuis, Jan, and Henk van der Flier. "Group differences in mean intelligence for the Dutch and third world immigrants." Journal of Biosocial Science 33.3 (2001): 469-475.
  6. Te Nijenhuis, Jan, Adel A. Batterjee, Michael Van Den Hoek, Jüri Allik, and Vladimir Sukhanovskiy. "Spearman’s hypothesis tested comparing Saudi Arabian children and adolescents with various other groups of children and adolescents on the items of the Standard Progressive Matrices." Journal of Biosocial Science 49.5 (2017): 634-647.
  7. Te Nijenhuis, Jan, and Michael van den Hoek. "Analysing group differences in intelligence using the psychometric meta-analytic method of correlated vectors hybrid model: a reply to Wicherts (2018) attacking a strawman." Journal of Biosocial Science 50.6 (2018): 1-2.
  8. Dutton, Edward, Salaheldin Farah Bakhiet, Khaled Elsayed Ziada, Yossry Ahmed Sayed Essa, Hamada Ali Abdelmuti Ali, and Shehana Mohammed Alqafari. "Regional differences in intelligence in Egypt: A country where upper is lower." Journal of Biosocial Science (2018): 1-9.
  9. Rindermann, Heiner, Antonia E. E. Baumeister, and Anne Groeper. "Cognitive abilities of Emirati and German engineering university students." Journal of Biosocial Science 46.2 (2014): 199-213.
  10. Rindermann, Heiner, Eva-Maria Stiegmaier, and Gerhard Meisenberg. "Cognitive ability of preschool, primary and secondary school children in Costa Rica." Journal of Biosocial Science 47.3 (2015): 281-310.
  11. Rindermann, Heiner, and James Thompson. "The cognitive competences of immigrant and native students across the world: An analysis of gaps, possible causes and impact." Journal of Biosocial Science 48.1 (2016): 66-93.
  12. Cochran, Gregory, Jason Hardy, and Henry Harpending. "Natural history of Ashkenazi intelligence." Journal of Biosocial Science 38.5 (2006): 659-693.
  13. Lynn, Richard, and T. Shigehisa. "Reaction times and intelligence: A comparison of Japanese and British children." Journal of Biosocial Science 23.4 (1991): 409-416.
  14. Lynn, Richard, and Claudia Pagliari. "The intelligence of American children is still rising." Journal of Biosocial Science 26.1 (1994): 65-67.
  15. Lynn, Richard. "Dysgenic fertility for criminal behaviour." Journal of Biosocial Science 27.4 (1995): 405-408.
  16. Lynn, Richard. "Sex differences in intelligence: A rejoinder to Mackintosh." Journal of Biosocial Science 30.4 (1998): 529-532.
  17. Lynn, Richard. "Sex differences in intelligence: some comments on Mackintosh and Flynn." Journal of Biosocial Science 30.4 (1998): 555-559.
  18. Lynn, Richard, and Po Wah Tse-Chan. "Sex differences on the progressive matrices: some data from Hong Kong." Journal of Biosocial Science 35.1 (2003): 145-150.
  19. Lynn, Richard, Eduardo Backhoff, and L. A. Contreras. "Ethnic and racial differences on the Standard Progressive Matrices in Mexico." Journal of Biosocial Science 37.1 (2005): 107-113.
  20. Lynn, Richard, Gerhard Meisenberg, Jaan Mikk, and Amandy Williams. "National IQs predict differences in scholastic achievement in 67 countries." Journal of Biosocial Science 39.6 (2007): 861-874.
  21. Lynn, Richard, Hsin-Yi Chen, and Yung-Hua Chen. "Intelligence in Taiwan: Progressive Matrices means and sex differences in means and variances for 6- to 17-year-olds." Journal of Biosocial Science 43.4 (2011): 469-474.