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- Hi, I would appreciate if you read this in full to understand the situation, why I recently requested article deletions (many, but not all of them my own page creations):
- In 2015 I debated John Fuerst on the OpenPsych forum. I quickly realised OpenPsych are far-right pseudojournals publishing pseudoscience about race and intelligence. I then looked into the main person behind OpenPsych, Emil Kirkegaard to discover in his OpenPsych publications - he self-cites himself hundreds of times, up to 38 times in a single paper, something he is still criticized for. In other words he abuses academic citations (virtually no one else cites his work) and is a pseudointellectual. I then did some further digging into his background to discover he has no qualifications in what he talks about, is a eugenicist, Islamophobe (he claims he wants to ban Muslims from entering Europe) with alt-right political views etc (while he denies the latter, its well documented). At the beginning of 2016, I wrote 3 RationalWiki articles to expose OpenPsych: Emil Kirkegaard, John Fuerst and (what became) the OpenPsych pseudojournals article; the latter was created originally as a sub-section of Kirkegaard's page, but was eventually made into a separate article. Over the next two years I then found a load more cranks associated with OpenPsych who attended the London Conference on Intelligence; I then created the following articles: Heiner Rindermann, Edward Dutton, Aurelio J. Figueredo, Dimitri van der Linden, James Thompson, Noah Carl, Michael A. Woodley of Menie, Jan te Nijenhuis, Fróði Debes, Gerhard Meisenberg, Adam Perkins and Anatoly Karlin, while also the International Society for Intelligence Research and London Conference on Intelligence article.
- The are some articles Kirkegaard and OpenPsych wrongly claim I created, when I didn't: Richard Haier, Richard Lynn, Davide Piffer, Robert Plomin, Eric Turkheimer, Intelligence and Mankind Quarterly. Basically Kirkegaard just blames me for any page about a hereditarian and/or racialist on this wiki. While I've created most of them, I haven't all of them; the claim I created the Turkheimer article is bizarre since I support his research (he's an anti-hereditarian) and I criticized his article when I saw it and it has been entirely rewritten.
- For legal reasons I cannot go into much detail or specifics, but only point out in 2018 someone from OpenPsych sued me for defamation; a lawsuit that is ongoing, and there has been a demand to remove all the above RationalWiki articles, hence I submitted deletion requests and voted to remove them. Aeschylus (talk) 19:36, 8 February 2019 (UTC)