People keep asking me about the state of the art re. evidence for physiognomy, so here's a brief review. Phrenology used to be considered legit, and then eventually people realized…
Some time ago, I was building a large reference FAQ for use on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, some activist admins came along and deleted it. The archived version is here. The background…
Since I was asked for recent reviews on the topic, I figure I might as well post them here too. Here's a few published since 2016. I regularly read these…
Nature has a review of Robert Plomin's new book by some random lefty historian data-free reasoning type called Nathaniel Comfort (he follows the usual pattern of having a background in…
Antonio Regalado is providing us with a recent series of the arguably best informed (compared to Guardian, Nature news etc.) popular science articles on genomics and its relevance to modern…
There's an interesting slide in Rindermann's survey: Rindermann, H. (2013). 2013 survey of expert opinion on intelligence. International Society for Intelligence Research, ISIR 2013 List of surveys here James Thompson's…
The crazy Frenchman Philippe Lemoine (twitter, blog: Nec Pluribus Impar) was kind enough to do a rough translation of the French article in Le Temps (the times). I read it…
Media criticism https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/10/ucl-to-investigate-secret-eugenics-conference-held-on-campus https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/01/10/ucl-launches-eugenics-probe-emerges-academic-held-controversial/ Various large UK media outlets have repeated some rather extreme claims about me. In particular, they claim that I'm a Nazi and pedophile apologist. Neither are…