It is now suspected that parts of his research were simply invented to support his beliefs. Now only thirty four years after the war the racists are on the march again and a few members of the scientific community are marching with them. Europe today is undergoing crises in circumstances that have seen a breakdown of the post-war political consensus. The academic community and the Nazis in Europe are connected through interlinked associations and journals to form an underworld largely unknown to British intellectuals and with values quite different from the traditional values of liberal scholarship. The values we bring to research may most clearly show themselves in the questions we ask.
Most social scientists regard scientific racism as dead.
But it will not lie down and many believe that there is some sort of case to answer because the noise continues. The implications are clear when we see either the company that scientific racists keep, or the company that claims them for its own. Their work must be judged by this as well as its scientific merits. Their work in academe is part of the same enterprise that National Front thugs undertake on the streets. Robert Moore Department of Sociology, King's College, University of Aberdeen.