Intelligence (journal) is dead, long live Intelligence (&CA) journal
As Noah Carl covered at Aporia in December 2024, the old Intelligence journal experienced a hostile takeover by Elsevier and their woke academic friends. As a result, most of the…
“Surprisingly low IQs in developing countries”, we don’t want to know, thanks
Back in May this year, German intelligence researcher Heiner Rindermann published this study: Rindermann, H. (2024). Surprisingly low results from studies on cognitive ability in developing countries: are the results…
Can’t say parasites causes low IQ either
Ever since Richard Lynn started compiling national intelligence averages (national IQs), there has been egalitarian minded researchers using these to find evidence of non-genetic causes of group differences. One frequently…
The role of censorship in science
A new many-author paper makes the case that censorship is rampant in science: Clark, C. J., Jussim, L., Frey, K., Stevens, S. T., Al-Gharbi, M., Aquino, K., ... & von…
In Sweden, talking about race and intelligence will get you a fine
I have somehow not heard of this case, but there's an ongoing case in Sweden where a 80-ish year old man, Bertil Malmberg, talked about the intelligence of nations, specifically…
Who’s attacking Asians in USA? The perennial push to hide crime statistics
NBC: PBS: There's an endless number of govt and semi-govt websites already: Main non-profit: https://stopaapihate.org/ NYC government: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/cchr/community/stop-asian-hate.page United Nations: https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2022/03/if-we-stay-silent-violence-continues Of course, the conservatives are on the defensive in…
Substack vs. Magazines: growth
Substack is doing well. They have successfully avoided being woke censors so far, even avoided COVID censorship while everybody else was toeing the party line. Back in January, they published…
Big Tech censors the Buffalo shooter’s manifesto
Once again, Big Tech are censoring a manifesto written by a terrorist, in this case, the Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron. It used to be on Google Drive, but was deleted.…
“positively motivated to help all of humankind”
As soft censorship in academia is the law of the land, we've been accumulating a bunch of funny worded rejections and pre-rejections. Rejections arise when you submit some work for…
ProQuest censors Mankind Quarterly: removes articles from their database
I tweeted this one a few weeks ago, but we need to document everything multiple places, so it doesn't get memory holed. Someone sent me this screenshot: So, to recap…