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Intelligence (journal)

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Intelligence is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to the psychological study of intelligence. It is published by Elsevier on behalf of the International Society for Intelligence Research. It is known for publishing pseudoscience and scientific racism.[1][2][3][4]

The editor-in-chief is Richard Haier, who was a signatory on the 1994 Wall Street Journal editorial Mainstream Science on Intelligence. Perhaps Haier's most controversial decision as editor has been to allow racialist pseudoscientists to serve on the journal's editorial board, including Richard Lynn and Gerhard Meisenberg (though neither of them do anymore[5]), both editors-in-chief (Lynn former, Meisenberg current) of Mankind Quarterly.[6] The journal has also been criticized for publishing some fishy research by Davide Piffer of the racist OpenPsych journal, who also researched pseudoscientific topics like ESP.[7] Piffer's research has been cited by the white nationalist American Renaissance magazine as evidence for racial differences in intelligence.[7]

Editorial board[edit]

Advocates of hereditarianism and HBD pseudoscience that are on the editorial board include[8]:

In 2024, the journal is calling for a new Editor in Chief.[9]

Papers[edit]

Intelligence has most controversially published papers by far-right individuals and white supremacists:

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Skibba, Ramin (20 May 2019). "The Disturbing Resilience of Scientific Racism". Smithsonian Magazine.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Saini, Angela (2018-01-22). "Racism is creeping back into mainstream science – we have to stop it". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  3. "Hundreds of academics demand Cambridge investigate researcher accused of publishing 'racist pseudoscience'". The Independent. 2018-12-07. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  4. Winston, Andrew (29 May 2020). "Scientific Racism and North American Psychology". Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.516. ISBN 978-0-19-023655-7.
  5. "Intelligence - Editorial board". ScienceDirect.
  6. It might be a pseudo science, but students take the threat of eugenics very seriously
  7. 7.0 7.1 Wikipedia wars: inside the fight against far-right editors, vandals and sock puppets
  8. Editorial board. sciencedirect.com.
  9. Call for Editor in Chief - Intelligence. sciencedirect.com.