Eric Turkheimer
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Eric Turkheimer is an American psychologist and debunker of hereditarianism pseudoscience. He is the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia.
Turkheimer has coined what he calls the "three laws of behaviour genetics":
In contrast to other contributors in the field, such as Robert Plomin, he emphasizes the fact that we have in very few cases demonstrated specific causal links between genes and behavior.[2]
Turkheimer is critical of hereditarianism about differences in average IQ scores between one race and another,[3] and argues they are best understood as environmental in origin.[4] He has, along with two other prominent behavioral geneticists (Kathryn Harden and Richard Nisbett), authored various article disproving Charles Murray's hereditarian bullshit on IQ differences between various "races".[5][6]
Criticism of racist pseudoscience[edit]
In recent years, Turkheimer has criticized the racist pseudoscience of far-right HBD researchers such as Emil Kirkegaard, Jordan Lasker, Bryan Pesta, Heiner Rindermann and James Thompson.[7][8]
Original RationalWiki article[edit]
Turkheimer's original RationalWiki article was written as a hit-piece and was created by Emil Kirkegaard on the account User:CBH. It was deleted and later rewritten. Kirkegaard had also created the article on Turkheimer's colleague Kathryn Paige Harden but it was deleted for containing inaccuracies and potential libel. The goal of Kirkegaard with these articles was presumably to harm the reputation of RationalWiki as well as to try to discredit his own article. Too bad for him his antics were uncovered.
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References[edit]
- ↑ Turkheimer, Eric. "Three laws of behavior genetics and what they mean." Current Directions in Psychological Science 9.5 (2000): 160-164.
- ↑ Turkheimer, E. (2016). Weak Genetic Explanation 20 Years Later: Reply to Plomin et al. (2016). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(1), 24–28. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691615617442
- ↑ https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/6/15/15797120/race-black-white-iq-response-critics
- ↑ https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-24333-015
- ↑ https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/5/18/15655638/charles-murray-race-iq-sam-harris-science-free-speech
- ↑ https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/6/15/15797120/race-black-white-iq-response-critics
- ↑ Race, Ethnicity, and the Scarr-Rowe Hypothesis: A Cautionary Example of Fringe Science Entering the Mainstream. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
- ↑ Controversy Requires Competence: Comment on Rindermann et al. (2024). journalofcontroversialideas.org.