Adam Perkins

Adam Perkins is a British far-right HBD pseudoscientist and Islamophobe who lectures in the Neurobiology of Personality at King's College London.Dr Adam Perkins, Lecturer in the Neurobiology of Personality King's College London Perkins's has published in the controversial journal Intelligence and has been criticized for making "shockingly bad" errors in a science paper.Welfare critic under fire after correcting ‘shockingly bad’ errors. The Times Higher Education. He is the author of the book (2015) that has been criticized for "statistical errors and incorrect conclusions",Criticisms of Adam Perkins and The Welfare Trait.· PsychologyBrief. as well as "misrepresenting studies to suit his thesis".Welfare state critic savaged at LSE talk. The Times Higher Education. 
Perkins has recently published articles in the right-wing online magazine Quillette.https://quillette.com/author/adam-perkins/ In 2024, Perkins was interviewed by holocaust denier Lipton Matthews.Is Welfare Promoting Negative Traits. youtube.com.
==Controversies==
===Racism and Islamophobia===
Perkins holds Islamophobic, anti-immigration and racist opinions, and he sparked a racism row in February 2017 for offensive comments he had posted on Twitter such as Muslim-majority countries "tend to be over-represented in crime & unemployment stats" (using a dubious source of data) and "Somalians don't perform well either side of the Atlantic".King's lecturer sparks racism row. Felix. 2 Feb 2017.KCL Lecturer Adam Perkins Slammed As 'Racist' After Arguing Donald Trump's Travel Ban 'Makes Sense'. Huffington Post. 6 Feb 2017.A London University Lecturer Has Apologised For Saying Trump's Immigration Ban "Makes Sense". Buzzfeed. 4 Feb 2017. A petition (with 423 signatures) was created by the KCL Somali community demanding Perkins apologize for his Islamophobic tweets.A formal apology to the KCL Somali community and beyond. Change.org. Perkins was involved in more controversy when he spoke on a alt-right YouTube channel to spout his opposition to Muslim immigration to the West and his support for Trump."KCL Professor appears on a white supremacist talk show to attack Muslim migration". CUB Magazine. 18 Feb 2017.Adam Perkins The Welfare Trait. realitycallsshow.com.
Perkins spends most of his time on social media complaining about Islam and immigration.
===London Conference on Intelligence===
Perkins attended the pseudoscientific eugenics London Conference on Intelligence in 2016 alongside white nationalists and other far-right speakers, including James Thompson, Michael A. Woodley of Menie, Richard Lynn and Emil Kirkegaard. 
===Free speech===
In March 2018 Perkins was in the newspapers again after he was scheduled to speak about freedom of speech organized by KCL’s Libertarian Society, but protestors shut down the event over past controversies that Perkins has been involved in: "King’s College London spokesperson said that the event was assessed as 'high risk' and was postponed due to the 'current external environment and the recent violent protest.'"King’s College London shuts its own lecturer's talk on free speech. The Telegraph.KCLSU censored a King’s lecturer at a Libertarian Soc event so they went to the pub instead. The Tab. 19 March 2018.
===Alt-right===
Aside from his anti-Muslim bigotry and support for Donald Trump, Perkins has appeared on Tara McCarthy and Stefan Molyneux's YouTube channels to promote his book The Welfare Trait,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rpsLGbxGDU while he follows alt-right individuals on Twitter (who follow him back), including Mike Cernovich, Steve Sailer, Emil Kirkegaard and Paul Joseph Watson. Perkins also identifies as a proponent of hereditarianism and is a part of the alt-right's HBD online culture.
==Criticism==
Perkins has been criticized for publishing studies using flimsy evidence and erroneous statistics: 
==See also==
* The Unz Review
* Davide Piffer
* Michael Coombs
* de-evolution
==External links==
* Adam Perkins on Twitter
* Dr Adam Perkins: Research Outputs King's College of London
==References==
Category:Alt-right
Category:Fascists
Category:Islamophobes
Category:Living people
Category:Pseudoscience promoters
Category:Racists
Category:Racialism pseudoscientists
Category:Quillette