Curtis S. Dunkel

Curtis Scott Dunkel is an American independent researcher and HBD pseudoscientist who writes controversial papers for Emil Kirkegaard's OpenPsych pseudojournal.Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journal: Christopher Rufo recommends a newsletter to his readers that has published several supporters of discredited genetics theory by Jason Wilson (31 Jan 2024 07.00 EST) The Guardian.Curtis S Dunkel. openpsych.net. Dunkel was a tenured professor of psychology at Western Illinois University prior to 2024.Department of Psychology Western Illinois University (archived from January 29, 2023).Department of Psychology Western Illinois University (archived from October 2, 2023).
==Career==
Dunkel was listed online as a psychologist at Western Illinois University but they clarified in 2024, "Curtis Dunkel is no longer an employee at WIU" and "I cannot comment on the reason for his departure." This indicates that it was not a mutually amicable departure.Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists: Christopher Rufo, credited with helping oust school’s first Black president, touted critic associated with ‘scientific racists’ by Jason Wilson (14 Jan 2024 07.00 EST) The Guardian. He has written dozens of papers with Dimitri van der Linden.Curtis Dunkel. researchgate.net.
Dunkel with Kirkegaard and Michael A. Woodley of Menie were speakers at the London Conference on Intelligence (LCI) in 2016. Dunkel's co-authored paper with Dimitri van der Linden for the LCI was "Sex Differences in Brain Size Do Translate into Difference in General Intelligence". It suggests women are less intelligent than men by an equivalent of 4 IQ points on average.London Conference on Intelligence 2016. dcscience.net.
In 2019, Dunkel authored a paper in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences with far-right figures Michael Woodley of Menie, Jonatan Pallesen and Emil Kirkegaard.Dunkel CS, Woodley of Menie MA, Pallesen J, & Kirkegaard EOW (2019). Polygenic scores mediate the Jewish phenotypic advantage in educational attainment and cognitive ability compared with Catholics and Lutherans. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 13(4), 366–375. 10.1037/ebs0000158 The paper cites the work of Kevin MacDonald, a retired psychologist known for pushing antisemitism. A 2020 paper "How White nationalists mobilize genetics" noted how Dunkel's paper is unreliable:
In 2024, for the far-right Aporia Magazine he wrote an article, "Does IQ alone explain Jewish success?".Does IQ alone explain Jewish success?. Aporia Magazine.
==International Society for Intelligence Research==
Two of Dunkel's papers were presented at the International Society for Intelligence Research 2019 annual conference with Emil Kirkegaard as a speaker.International Society for Intelligence Research 2019. isironline.org.
==Mankind Quarterly==
Dunkel writes for the racist pseudoscience journal Mankind Quarterly.Testing the Replicability of High Jewish Scores on the General Factor of Personality. mankindquarterly.org.Richard Lynn: Southern Poverty Law Center. In April 2024, he authored a paper "High Jewish General Factor of Personality In a British Sample".High Jewish General Factor of Personality In a British Sample. mankindquarterly.org.
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