@Spud The AfD for this article is protected but you agreed to deletion, can you remove the page? I don't think this article needs to remain with so few content (as red links were removed). 134.209.169.33 (talk) 16:49, 25 May 2025 (UTC)
- Odd that you on a different racialism stub, claim that "you agreed to deletion" and all, yet pinged a different user. Do you feel the same about the rest of RationalWiki's stubs?
– Regards, Avarice Not suspicious at all! 17:15, 25 May 2025 (UTC)
Article was created by a banned troll adding nonsense and unsourced claims[edit]
Kenya Kura (Japanese: 蔵 研也) is a Japanese eugenics supporter and pseudoscientist. He works as an assistant professor at the Foreign Language Department (formerly, he worked in the Faculty of Economics and Information Science) of the Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University in Japan.[1] In 1988 he graduated from University of Tokyo studying law. He claims to have a Ph.D. in economics.[2]
Published pseudoscience
The law of payoff consistency: Games with continuous differences on resource values.[3]
Japanese north – south gradient in IQ predicts differences in stature, skin color, income, and homicide rate.[4]
What sourcing or evidence is there that Mr. Kura is a eugenicist? None of his papers relate to eugenics and there are zero sources for this. Secondly, if you google "Kenya Kura eugenics" all you get is the RW article. The eugenics description is not sourced to anything. Thirdly, what evidence is there the following paper is "pseudoscience"?
The law of payoff consistency: Games with continuous differences on resource values.[3]
Here's the paper abstract: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02769394
We analyzed general continuous games in which two players compete for a resource with a different value. There is a pure ESS function in which an increase in the resource value increases the cost which players are willing to pay to obtain the resource.
We also found that the expected payoff of the player does not change at all, even if the rules of the game were changed. If the rules of a contest become more costly and more vain, the cost equilibrium of the contest would become lower and perfectly cancel the effect of the change in the rules. The payoff is affected only by the distribution of resource value. This implies that however costly and however vain a contest in nature appears, it would not immediately relate with the individual’s loss and species benefit. We name this phenomenon “the law of payoff consistency”.
This paper has nothing to do with eugenics, race etc. Did anyone even read it? lol.
Finally, I will point out this article was created by User:Ze aka User:Judge Dredd aka User:D aka dysklyver (and a bunch of other names), this is an infamous sockpuppeteer and banned troll who created multiple impersonation accounts. They have also been banned on Wikipedia on hundreds of accounts (many other impersonations) and globally banned for trolling there as well.
I am not sure why RationalWiki is keeping up an article written by a banned troll and troublemaker who added unsourced claims and wrote lies on the page.
Even more problematic is the user Ze/Judge Dredd/Dysk etetc was a friend and defender of the pedophile Nathan Larson. They defended Larson on multiple occasions and once described him as a "cool and chill guy" and with him supported legalising child porn. This info can be found on Larson's talk and across the internet.
Do we really want an article written by a banned troll and pedophile defender?
Delete?
38.248.90.85 (talk) 12:12, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
- As long as an article doesn't advocate anything nasty (which this one doesn't), it doesn't really matter who created it. However, this article does not appear to be about anyone relevant to our mission and seems to be based on a lie. I have nominated it for deletion. Spud (talk) 12:47, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
- This is the same argument we've been getting over at Eugenics, albeit with a different troll. Articles should be deleted because of their content, not because of who wrote them. You're not going to sway anyone with that argument, BoN flurry. The thing about the paper being falsified is what you really should have emphasized; that's the real support for deletion. Putting a [citation needed] up now.
– Regards, Avarice 13:07, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
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