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Richard Hoste Interviews Richard Lynn

Richard Lynn

Richard Lynn received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and since then has worked as a lecturer of psychology at the University of Exeter and a professor of psychology at the University of Ulster and the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin. He continues a productive career after five decades and more than [...]

Published: July 11, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments closed

The Coming Chinese Superstate: Richard Lynn’s Eugenics

Richard Hoste

Eugenics: A Reassessment
by Richard Lynn
Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers 2001
One of the only valid points made by the critics of The Bell Curve was that if the science was accepted, then eugenics, which Hernstein and Murray refused to endorse, becomes the rational solution to society’s ills. Steven Pinker, the next major public thinker associated with [...]

Published: July 2, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

The Fall of Man:
Richard Lynn’s Dysgenics

Richard Hoste

Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations
by Richard Lynn
Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1996
When it comes to population, quality matters more than quantity.  While educated Westerners never tire of sprinkling their conversations with the word “overpopulation,” voicing concern about population worth is taboo.  Put it this way: you have to spend the rest of your life in [...]

Published: June 30, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

A Weak Case

Richard Lynn

War Against the Weak:
Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race
Edwin Black
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003
Black’s book is an ill-informed and intemperate attack on eugenics. It follows in the tradition of two previous attacks, the first by Kenneth Ludmerer (Genetics and American Society, 1972), and the second by Daniel Kevles (In the [...]

Published: May 7, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , | Comments closed
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