Edward Dutton

Edward Croft Dutton is a far-rightCase File: Edward Dutton (Updated Wednesday 06 Mar 2024) Hope Not Hate. fake news promoter,Richard Lemmer, Reading station responds to viral post about staff's "sub-par" English. Reading Chronicle, 6 September 2024. and eccentric English Youtuber. He is a grifter via diploma mills, a QAnon conspiracy theorist, anti-vegan, and transphobe who writes articles for the white nationalist site VDARE and The Unz Review plus is a regular speaker on Mark Collett's white supremacist podcast Patriotic Weekly Review.Edward Dutton VDARE (archived from August 22, 2024).Edward Dutton Archive The Unz Review.Patriotic Weekly Review - with Dr Edward Dutton by Mark Collett (July 27, 2022) Odysee.Dr Edward Dutton interviews Dr David Duke by Mark Collett (August 16, 2022) Odysee. Dutton has controversially given a platform to Holocaust deniers such as Lipton Matthews on his podcast.Lipton Matthews & Wilfred Reilly | The Lock-In (May 27, 2023) Jolly Heretic. Paywalled. He is a disgraced academic and pseudointellectual who was investigated by the University of Oulu and found guilty of scientific misconduct due to plagiarism."Corrigendum to 'A negative Flynn Effect in Finland, 1997–2009' [Intelligence 41(6) (2013) 817–820] by Edward Dutton & Richard Lynn (2018) Intelligence 68:100. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2018.03.006. Despite being pretentious and claiming on his curriculum vitae to be a "Professor of Evolutionary Psychology" at Asbiro University this is questionable at best (since Asbiro does not teach or award degrees in psychology). PZ Myers labeled him a fraud.“Professor” Edward Dutton is a fraud by PZ Myers (23 April 2021) Pharyngula, Freethough Blogs.
Dutton's views include eugenics, climate change denial,If scientists didn’t lie about race, sex, intelligence and climate then they might be taken a tad more seriously. by Edward Dutton (9:48 PM · Mar 14, 2020) Twitter (archived from 5 Dec 2024 21:19:44 UTC). race and intelligence pseudoscience, sexism, anti-feminism, transphobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-veganism, and white supremacy.From Aberdeen PhD to White Supremacist by Aiden Bridgeman (January 19, 2021) The Gaudie Student Newspaper (archived from March 18, 2021). He has been accused of sympathising with terrorism for comments he made on a neo-Nazi podcast.Two Nazis Support Islamic Terrorism (Apr 25, 2020) YouTube. He is ex-editor-in-chief of the journal Mankind Quarterly and calls himself the Jolly Heretic on social media.The Jolly Heretic Videos YouTube.Jolly Heretic Twitter. Dutton has a degree in Theology from Durham University and a PhD in religious studies from the University of Aberdeen.Culture Shock and Multiculturalism: Reclaiming a Useful Model from the Religious Realm by Edward Dutton, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 1443835579 (publisher's webpage archived from October 25, 2020).
Dutton claims to be a proponent of freedom of speech and thinks there should be no censorship in science, writing a Galileo gambit, "If someone forcefully insists that a certain area is out of bounds and you’re ‘immoral’ for even contemplating it, then that is where new discoveries are going to lie."Edward Dutton: About WordPress (archived from 6 Jan 2021 10:12:58 UTC). The problem is he's a huge hypocrite. For example, he deletes any comments left on his YouTube videos that merely criticise him or his colleague Michael A. Woodley.
Unlike his closet racist associates such as Michael Woodley, Emil Kirkegaard, Nathan Cofnas, and Noah Carl, Dutton is more open about his racist beliefs. He has regular friendly podcasts and public discussions with alt-right, neo-Nazi, and/or white supremacist outlets. In late 2020, he was the main guest of a podcast run by neo-Nazi and white supremacist Richard Spencer on the topic "Making Sense of Race".Richard Spencer & Ed Dutton: Making Sense of Race (Dec 21, 2020) YouTube.
Dutton promotes the pseudoscientific spiteful mutant hypothesis and a dangerous fad diet known as the carnivore diet. He attacks liberals, vegetarians, vegans, homosexuals, transsexuals, and people who dye their hair as "mentally ill" mutants. He is also a supporter of the white nationalist group Patriotic Alternative that promotes "White Lives Matter" banners around the UK.Patriotic Alternative: Uniting the Fascist Right? by Simon Murdoch (2020) Hope not Hate.
In November 2022, Dutton began defending Graham Hancock's pseudoarchaeological theories, including belief in Atlantis as an advanced culture, saying he is "open-minded" and does not consider Hancock to be a pseudoarchaeologist.Leftists Lose It Over Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse. Why? by Edward Dutton (12/07/2022) VDARE (archived from December 30, 2022).
Dutton has charged people to enroll on an online course in sociobiology at an unaccredited diploma mill 'university' named GegenUni.Sociobiology by Edward Duttton, Gegenuni (archived from April 1, 2022). Another bogus lecturer at GegenUni at that time was white nationalist Martin Sellner.Wie zur Wende? by Martin Sellner, Gegenuni (archived from November 29, 2022).
Openly a eugenicist, Dutton's main reason for supporting abortion is his PIDOOMA claim that women who have abortions are less intelligent (on average) than women who do not.Her Choice, Our Future: The Conservative Case For Legal Abortion by Ed Dutton (May 19, 2022) Radix Journal.
A disturbed individual, Dutton will often dress up and impersonate an autistic, disabled, feminist, homosexual or transexual person in his BitChute and Odysee videos just to attack and mock them.Dr Edward Dutton: The Jolly Heretic Bitchute (archived from July 9, 2019).JollyHeretic Odysee.
==Background==
===Academic positions before his outing===
Dutton received a doctoral degree from the Divinity and Religious Studies Department at the University of Aberdeen in 2005. His thesis was titled, Liminality, Communitas and Student Evangelical Groups: A Critique of the Group Theories of Victor Turner and Mary Douglas.Liminality, Communitas and Student Evangelical Groups: A Critique of the Group Theories of Victor Turner and Mary Douglas by Edward Croft Dutton (2005) University of Aberdeen via ProQuest. The thesis was an anthropological analysis of a religious group to the university.
He was a docent of the in Finland, and taught there from 2011 to around 2016-2017.The Conferment of the Title of Docent (February 7, 2011) University of Oulu (archived from May 5, 2021).Dosenttinimitykset2011 University of Oulu (archived from May 21, 2021).Rehtorin päätös tutkimuseettisessä asiassa (16.6.2017) University of Oulu. There is not much record of him doing anything at Oulu other than teaching a single course in a single year.Scandinavian Studies Programme: Fall Semester 2015 University of Oulu. Dutton was listed as teaching the course "Humans and Environment" in 2014. Archived from May 21, 2021).Search on 'dutton' research University of Oulu (archived from May 21, 2021). This was likely due to the university having investigated him for plagiarism and finding that he had violated research ethics. The Guardian has compared his title of docent to "adjunct professor",Ed Dutton (Feb 23 2016 09.59 EST) The Guardian. but the title is not associated with a salary in Finland and only indicates the capacity to teach a course. The title is granted for life, and practically very difficult to revoke. Docent is not actually the equivalent of adjunct professor which, in the US, is a non-tenure-track appointment.Edward Dutton is not employed by University of Oulu, and his actions do not represent our values emphasizing equality and responsibility. With current legislation it is not possible to withdraw the title of Docent, but discussions on that are ongoing with Finnish Universities. University of Oulu (1:08 AM - 28 Jun 2019) Twitter (archived from 28 Jun 2019 23:02:44 UTC). In 2019, the University of Oulu felt compelled to respond to Dutton's abusive use of the term.
Since 2020, Dutton has described himself as a "Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Asbiro University" in Łódź, Poland. Despite its name, it has been pointed outed that Asbiro University "is not a real university but a privately-run business school"State of Hate 2021: Backlash, Conspiracy & Confrontation, edited by Nick Lowles (2021) Hope Not Hate. that is affiliated with Ludwig von Mises ideology.Asbiro University A 2021 report by Hope not Hate described Dutton as a "pseudoscientific race scientist" with "extreme and offensive opinions".
With regard to Dutton's claim of being an anthropologist, that is not disputable since his doctoral thesis was an anthropological analysis of religion, and his appointment at the University of Oulu was on the topic of Anthropology of Religion and Finnish Culture. Notably, though, there are four broad subfields of anthropology: sociocultural or cultural, biological, archaeological, and linguistic. Within these subfields, sociocultural tends to be descriptive and qualitative, whereas the biological and archaeological fields are quantitative and scientific. Dutton's thesis was within a narrow subfield of sociocultural anthropology, the anthropology of religion, using the participant-observer method of fieldwork. Yet, none of Dutton's post-doctoral publications are within sociocultural anthropology, with multiple publications in crank racialist pseudojournals. It is as if Dutton is trying to use his thesis as a cudgel to try to convince people that he is capable of writing about any field of research about humans. It is, in fact, another form of credentialism; it is as if a linguist were to claim that they found undisturbed Australopithecus remains buried deep beneath a Scottish ruin and claiming expertise in paleontology because they are a linguist.
Dutton is associated with at least two fake universities (diploma mills) set up by various neo-Nazis — ALEX University and GegenUni.
===Political affiliation===
Dutton was a member of the Conservative Party in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In livestreams he has mentioned having been an activist for the Conservatives during the 2001 United Kingdom general election. He left the Conservatives around the time when David Cameron became leader. In his book Spiteful Mutants he mentions his "regret" for formerly supporting the Conservatives.
In 2019, Dutton attended and spoke at a conference organised by the white nationalist group Patriotic Alternative.Patriotic Alternative Conference: Professor Edward Dutton – PA 0909197 Radio Albion (archived from 14 Apr 2023 14:32:11 UTC).
Dutton says he voted for Brexit. In April 2023, he endorsed Reform UK candidate My interview with Nick Buckley, MBE. What a very kind and thoughtful chap. Please vote for him to be your mayor next year if you live in Manchester. by Edward Dutton (8:27 AM · Apr 14, 2023) Twitter (archived from 5 Dec 2024 21:24:04 UTC).
In November 2023, Dutton attended the first right-wing conference in London.This global right-wing movement wants to save the world. It just needs a plan: The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference brought together big-name right-wingers from around the globe. by Bethany Dawson & Stefan Boscia (November 2, 2023 4:00 am CET) Politico (archived from November 2, 2023).
==Crazy and disturbing views==
===Misogyny, anti-feminism, and pro-patriarchy===
Dutton has written that he believes women not under the control of men and patriarchy are "maladaptive" and dysphoric:
===Support for teenage pregnancies===
Dutton opposes female empowerment and criticises females who have "dedicated their 20s and most of their 30s, at the expense of finding a husband." He supports teenage pregnancies and describes females who go to university or get a job in their 20s and 30s as "anti-traditional, fitness-compromising." According to Dutton women beyond teenage years are "past their prime" to have children because in his view "men sexually select for youth." These creepy views align with Dutton's .
===QAnon conspiracy theory===
In 2020, Dutton published an article somewhat sympathetic to the QAnon conspiracy theory, concluding: "the idea that the world is run — or at least heavily influenced—by selfish, child-abusers Satanists becomes less than entirely ludicrous".Trusting The Plan by Edward Dutton (December 16, 2020 8:08 pm) Radix Journal (archived from 16 Dec 2020 23:45:13 UTC).
In Spiteful Mutants, Dutton says he believes that there "there may be some kernels of truth within its [QAnon's] most outlandish claims."
A chapter in Dutton's Spiteful Mutants book, titled "The Normalization of Pedophilia" argues since the 1990s, "the last vestiges of traditional sexual morality have collapsed" and "the next step, so it seems, is to "normalize pedophilia". Dutton argues it is left-wing political activists, namely SJWs and the "woke", as well as LGBT-rights groups who are trying to normalize pedophilia. No evidence is presented for this claim aside from mentioning the Paedophile Information Exchange. However, this group became defunct in 1984. As Dutton himself acknowledges, PIE was rejected by prominent left-wing politicians at the time including Labour MP, who described pedophilia as a "wholly undesirable abnormality." At the end of his chapter, Dutton wrote, "It seems, however, the West is not ready for the normalizing of pedophilia quite yet." In other words, despite arguing leftists want to normalize pedophilia, he ends up admitting his evidence is extremely flimsy and unconvincing. 
Dutton has made YouTube videos using the main QAnon theme — titling one video for example, "Do Paedophiles Rule the World?".Do Paeodophiles Rule the World? "The Jolly Heretic", Season 1, Episode 16 (3 April 2019) IMDb.
Dutton lists a number of pedophiles in Spiteful Mutants who happen to hold far-left political views but completely ignores the number of pedophiles in the far-right. In October 2020, the neo-Nazi group Patriotic Alternative (with which Dutton is associated) invited a convicted child sex offender named James Shand to one of its events in Kent.He Stood for Election for a Mainstream Political Party. Now He’s a Far-Right Organiser. by Simon Childs (December 16, 2020, 10:13am) Vice.The Anti-Fascist Research Group Exposing Britain’s Neo-Nazi Threat by Simon Childs (10 January 2023) Novara Media. Dutton has been silent on this matter.
Dutton claimed "sexualization of children has increasingly become acceptable" but then contradicted himself by pointing out that no "prominent organisation is advocating as did PIE that the age of sexual consent be abolished and paedophilia, legalized." He therefore resorted to dubious homophobic arguments linking pedophilia to homosexuality, for example, writing "homosexuality is heavily over-represented among pedophiles." Multiple studies however have shown that gay men are not significantly more likely than straight men to be attracted to pre-pubescent and pubescent children.Do Gay Men Have More Sexual Interest in Children? by Alice Dreger (February 28, 2011) Psychology Today.
Dutton appears to have a double standard on child pornography and age of consent. While criticising activists of legalising child porn and reducing age of consent who hold "libertarian left" political views, he is close friends with Emil Kirkegaard who is an infamous activist for legalising possession of child pornography and reducing age of consent to 13 year olds, or younger. Dutton has also co-authored multiple papers with KirkegaardWill Intelligent Latter-day Saints and Smart Conservatives Inherit the Earth? Differential Selection for Intelligence in the USA Based on Religiosity and Conservatism by Emil O. W. Kirkegaard & Edward Dutton (2022) Evolutionary Psychological Science 9(1). doi:10.1007/s40806-022-00327-y.The Negative Religiousness-IQ Nexus is a Jensen Effect on Individual-Level Data: A Refutation of Dutton et al.'s 'The Myth of the Stupid Believer' by 
Edward Dutton & Emil Kirkegaard (2022) J. Relig. Health 61(4):3253-3275. doi:10.1007/s10943-021-01351-1. but has never criticised his controversial and distasteful views on child porn and age of consent presumably because he shares most of his political views.
====Ephebophilia-apologism====
Despite pushing aspects of the QAnon conspiracy theory, Dutton has been criticized for defending ephebophilia in a book review.Edward Dutton is an ephebophilia apologist r/SneerClub (c. 2021) Reddit.
In Spiteful Mutants, Dutton similarly writes the following:
===Racist pseudoscience===
Dutton holds many crazy beliefs, and most of them focus around eugenics and race and intelligence but also penis size. He bizarrely argues for a genetic origin of atheism, the so-called "Atheist Mutational Load Theory"Defending Atheist Mutational Load Theory: The Authors' Reply: Are atheists mutants? The author's reply to my previous critique. by Scott A. McGreal (June 21, 2018) Psychology Today. that says, "modern-day atheism is caused by mutant genes." Dutton has no scientific qualifications whatsoever, yet he publishes books and papers on intelligence, psychology, and biology from a right-wing hereditarianism perspective, claiming, "I moved into evolutionary psychology, human biological differences and intelligence in 2012 and have never looked back." He has controversially co-authored books and papers with white supremacist Richard Lynn through the pseudo-scholarly Ulster Institute for Social Research, including Race and Sport: Evolution and Racial Differences in Sporting Ability.Race and Sport: Evolution and Racial Differences in Sporting Ability by Edward Dutton & Richard Lynn (2015) Ulster Institute for Social Research. ISBN 0993000134.
Dutton was found to be guilty of plagiarism in 2017 after a paper he authored with Lynn was found to contain data originally gathered by a University of Oulu student for his pro gradu in 2013. The data concerned intelligence tests performed on conscripts of the Finnish Defense Forces and was identical to the third decimal in the papers, yet the duo did not properly refer to the student's work and claimed to be under the impression that the data had been processed by the Defense Forces themselves. Another paper published by Dutton in 2014 was also suspected of plagiarism but was not conclusively ruled such.Oulun yliopiston dosentti syyllistyi plagiointiin — kiistää tekonsa tarkoituksellisuuden (16 June 2017) Aamulehti (in Finnish).
He has been criticized for having links to the far-right, sitting on the advisory board of the Mankind QuarterlyEditorial Panel Mankind Quarterly. and has himself made statements that are unambiguously sexist and Islamophobic. For example, he wrote on his personal website, "The nature of Islamic societies – and the religion itself – retards IQ in Muslim countries" and "sexual selection extends to nationality, with women being sexually attracted to males from higher status nations."Edward Dutton: About WordPress (archived from 30 Aug 2018 17:47:25 UTC). His 2009 book The Finnuit: Finnish Culture and the Religion of UniquenessThe Finnuit: Finnish Culture and the Religion of Uniqueness by Edward Dutton (2009) Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 9630587319. is notably criticized on a blog that mentions Dutton's xenophobia and odd theories.Edward Dutton author of the pseudoscientific book "The Finnuit" by mundane man (October 20, 2009 at 5:09 pm) WordPress.
In 2018, Dutton with Michael A. Woodley of Menie published At Our Wits' End: Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future, which argues human intelligence has gone into rapid decline since the Industrial Revolution. This sort of pseudoscientific work on dysgenics is popular among the alt-right's HBD community; for example, the book is promoted on The Unz Review.Why Is Intelligence Declining? Our Rulers Don’t Want You to Know by Lance Welton (August 21, 2018) Unz Review (archived from January 2, 2020). Dutton and Woodley partly blame the alleged lowering of IQ on Third World] immigrants and women's rights, e.g. smarter females having no or fewer children to pursue careers when they should stay at home.
Dutton authored the pseudoscientific book, Race Differences in Ethnocentrism in 2019. It was published by the alt-right Arktos Media company.Race Differences in Ethnocentrism by Edward Dutton (2019) Arktos. ISBN 1912975254. In April 2019, Dutton appeared on neo-Nazi Mark Collett's "This Week on the Alt Right" podcast and gave offensive racist comments. He is also a fan of Richard Spencer and was interviewed on his podcast in May, 2019.The McSpencer Group Episode 11: Edward Dutton (May 26, 2019) YouTube (archived from May 26, 2019).The McSpencer Group Episode 11: Edward Dutton Very happy to welcome Ed Dutton to the panel! by Richard Spender (8:38 AM - 26 May 2019) Twitter (archived from 26 May 2019 15:38:47 UTC).
===Penis-size pseudoscience===
Dutton attended the London Conference on Intelligence in 2015 and delivered a controversial talk on J. Philippe Rushton's Differential-K Theory and hereditarianism hypothesis. Despite having been discredited,(2002). "What a tangled web he weaves Race, reproductive strategies and Rushton's life history theory" by Joseph L. Graves, Jr. (2002) Anthropological Theory 2(2):131–154. doi:10.1177/14699620020020026. Dutton defended Rushton's theories, including the pseudoscientific theoryAndrogens, Dodgy Penis Size Data, and Differential-K Theory: Can crude statistics validate suspect racial data on penis sizes? No. by Scott A. McGreal (February 13, 2016) Psychology Today. that sub-Saharan Africans have significantly longer penis lengths than Caucasians and East Asians (using Rushton's outdated tripartite racial classification). The conference paper was published the following year in the journal Personality and Individual Differences:"Population differences in androgen levels: A test of the Differential K theory by Edward Dutton (2015) London Conference on Intelligence.
Actual peer-reviewed studies on ethnicity and penis size have shown "there is no convincing scientific background to support the ascription of bigger penile dimensions to people of the Black race"."Oversized Penile Length In The Black People; Myth Or Reality by JC Orakwe & GU Ebuh (2007) Tropical Journal of Medical Research. 11(1):16-18. doi:10.4314/tjmr.v11i1.30465. For example, in a study of 115 Nigerian males, the average stretched penis length is 5.26 inches long, nearly identical to the worldwide average.Can physique and gluteal size predict penile length in adult Nigerian men? by Jideofor Chukwuma Orakwe, B. O. Ogbuagu & Godday Ebuh (2007) West African Journal of Medicine 25(3):223–5. doi:10.4314/wajm.v25i3.28282. Rushton (followed by Richard Lynn, whom Dutton cites) used many dubious and erroneous sources on penis size, including (unverifiable) self-reported data and an anonymous 19th century surgeon:The Pseudoscience of Race Differences in Penis Size: A paper's claim about racial differences in penis size are unfounded. by Scott A. McGreal (October 16, 2012) Psychology Today.
Dutton hero-worshipped Rushton and assumed he was an iconoclastic genius. In 2019, however, Dutton finally acknowledged that Rushton was (in his words) "a liar and a fraud" and that all his research findings must be therefore considered suspect. Dutton had found a significant amount of evidence that contradicted Rushton's Differential-K Theory including evidence that Rushton misrepresented and hid evidence against his theory and had also found out that Rushton had lied about various aspects of his own life story.J. Philippe Rushton: 'He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!' by Edward Dutton (Feb 14, 2019) Odysee.J. Philippe Rushton: He's Not the Messiah, He's a Very Naughty Boy! by Edward Dutton (July 20th, 2019) Bitchute.
In October 2023, Dutton made a video promoting his pseudoscientific idea that Black men have longer penis sizes on average. He relied on a dubious study by Emil Kirkegaard.Why is it so hard to measure a phallus? by Edward Dutton (Oct 04, 2023) The Jolly Heretic.
===Antisemitism===
Dutton wrote an article defending and rehashing the arguments of an infamous antisemitic book by the far-right intellectual Kevin MacDonald, which somehow got published in an academic journal, although the first journal he submitted it to rejected it because it was "unsubstantiated".Kevin MacDonald and the Elevation of Anti-Semitic Pseudoscience: Why are respectable journals publishing discussions of what has long been dismissed as bigoted psychological research? by Michael Schulson (06.27.2018) Undark Magazine. The journal subsequently published a rebuttal by Nathan Cofnas.Is Kevin MacDonald’s Theory of Judaism "Plausible"? A Response to Dutton (2018) by Nathan Cofnas (2019) Evoloutionary Psychological Science 5:143-150. doi:10.1007/s40806-018-0162-8.
When discussing his support for MacDonald's antisemitic theories that Jews undermine "white ethnic solidarity in the West", a journalist felt uncomfortable with Dutton asking whether he was Jewish:
===Anti-veganism and anti-vegetarianism===
Dutton is against veganism and vegetarianism and has criticized animal rights in general. One example is a video titled "My Philosophical Argument Against Veganism". The entire video consists of Dutton eating cooked beef and a Yorkshire pudding covered in beef-fat to troll individuals with a meat-free diet.My Philosophical Argument Against Veganism by Edward Dutton (Aug 25, 2019) YouTube.
In a 2021 podcast with Collett, Dutton stated that vegetarians and vegans are "mentally ill" but provided no evidence for this claim.Patriotic Weekly Review: Edward Dutton – PWR 021021 (February 10, 2021) Radio Albion.
In a 2022 interview with David Duke, Dutton supported the carnivore diet.Dr Edward Dutton interviews Dr David Duke (August 16, 2022) Odysee.
In 2023, Dutton interviewed a white supremacist known as "Raw Egg Nationalist" and made offensive anti-vegan comments. Dutton also said he would beat his teenage son with a belt if he tried to persuade him to drink oat milk.
===On multiculturalism===
===On atheism===
In 2017, Dutton cowrote a paper (that somehow managed to get published) in Evolutionary Psychological Science "The Mutant Says in His Heart, 'There Is No God': the Rejection of Collective Religiosity Centred Around the Worship of Moral Gods Is Associated with High Mutational Load""The Mutant Says in His Heart, 'There Is No God': the Rejection of Collective Religiosity Centred Around the Worship of Moral Gods Is Associated with High Mutational Load" by Edward Dutton, Guy Madison & Curtis Dunkel (2017) Evolutionary Psychological Science 4:233–244. which is as crazy as the title:
The paper has been criticized for citing non-academic sources as evidence such as social media posts, evangelical websites and the ever-unreliable Daily Mail.Religious mutants by Gordon Bonnet (December 27, 2017) Skeptophilia.
Like Jordan Peterson, Dutton is a strong believer in religion as a force for good in society. He tries to alternately obfuscate this fact by coming up with all sorts of waffle about how things like a belief in objective truth are "really" religiousness of a sort (which they are not — opposition to postmodernist post-truth discourse has nothing to do with being religious), and justify it by claiming that geniuses will tend to be atheists and a society with a small proportion of geniuses is "evolutionarily optimal".
It is noteworthy how many lines of enquiry Dutton pursues that seem to — conveniently for him — lead Dutton to "scientific" conclusions that bolster his far-right beliefs — even to the extent of "confirming" his beliefs that:
*Too much intelligence in a society is bad for a society, a belief which seems absurd given the outpouring of inventions that improve people's standard of living, which — as he acknowledges — high intelligence has led to since the Industrial Revolution
*Too much intelligence at an individual level is somewhat bad because it leads, he thinks, to "criminal-like" personality profiles, with low agreeableness, and to increasing detachment from "instinct" and "normality". Instinct is something that Dutton tends to think is evolutionarily adaptive and therefore "good" (which ignores the fact that what may have been adaptive on the African savannah in humanity's evolutionary past is not necessarily adaptive in a modern, highly urbanised and technological society). Normality is something that far-right individuals such as Dutton tend to be obsessive about.
In a slightly different way, the Nazis also believed that too much intelligence was a bad thing — although for them, it was more about finding a justification for hating IQ tests which showed that some Jewish people were highly intelligent, because the Nazis hated Jews.
Speaking of which…
===On incels===
Dutton attacks incels as being useless to society because he wants white males to have more children. He has made videos such as "Why Incełs Need to Start Going to Church if They Want to Get Some".Why Incełs Need to Start Going to Church if They Want to Get Some The Jolly Heretic (Feb 12, 2021) YouTube. However, most of Dutton's fan-base are incels who use anonymous online screen names on Twitter and YouTube and use alt-right memes such as Pepe the Frog.
===On interracial relationships===
Dutton has a history of making pseudoscientific racist comments about interracial relationships. 
In March 2019, Dutton criticized interracial relationships. He believes mixed-race adolescents are mentally unstable and have higher health and behaviour risks.Episode 12: Mixed Race Individuals and Personality Traits by Edward Dutton (Mar 14, 2019) YouTube (archived from April 1, 2019). 
In a July 2019 interview for the white supremacist American Renaissance magazine, Dutton commented that "a black woman is not often regarded as particularly feminine or attractive, and so the white man is not selecting her based on physical markers."A Conversation with Edward Dutton by Grégoire Canlorbe (July 10, 2019) American Renaissance (archived from 30 Jul 2019 12:05:11 UTC).
===On the sexual revolution===
Dutton has advocated in his vlogs and on at least one podcast the mostly debunked theory that the "sexual revolution caused incels".Robert Stark interviews Ed Dutton: The Jolly Heretic (September 10th 2020) The Stark Truth With Robert Stark. t=33:30.The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women by Lisa Sugiura (2021). Emerald Publishing. ISBN 9781839822544.{{rp|36,52-53]}
===On terrorism===
In a disturbing podcast featuring Dutton, Richard Spencer suggested that people from the alt-right should adopt some of the tactics of Islamic terrorists. Dutton's reply was, "Yes, I agree".
====Defence of neo-Nazi criminal Sam Melia====
In 2024, DuttonThe Deep State won’t let him see his children | Laura Towler: I talk to Sam Melia's wife. (Edward Dutton
Jun 03, 2024) The Jolly Heretic. Paywalled. was defending convicted neo-Nazi Sam Melia (husband of Laura Towler) who has been investigated for terrorist links to the National Action group and was found guilty of distributing material intended to stir up racial hatred and sentenced to two years imprisonment.Prison Sentence For Leeds Man Intent On Stirring Up Racial Hatred (1 March 2024) Counter Terrorism Policing (archived from March 10, 2024). Police found a picture of Adolf Hitler and Third Reich posters in Melia's home.UK man with Hitler picture in home used sticker campaign to stir racial hatred, court told: Sam Melia, 33, accused of running far-right network Hundred-Handers from Pudsey in Leeds by Robyn Vinter (16 Jan 2024 11.11 EST) The Guardian.
===On transsexuals===
Dutton openly attacks and insults transsexuals as "mentally ill" and "mutants". In 2021, he appeared with Collett and No White Guilt on the Patriotic Weekly Review podcast where he commented that transsexuals have borderline personality disorder, are aggressive, unreasonable, and mentally ill. He also described transsexuals as "mutants" and perverse "garbage".
===On white supremacy===
Dutton has no problem with supporting white supremacy:
==Bizarre online behavior==
Dutton runs his YouTube channel "The Jolly Heretic" to attack leftists, liberals, the LGBT community, cross-dressers, disabled people, transgender, vegans, and people who dye their hair as "mentally ill".Prof. Edward Dutton: The Jolly Heretic YouTube. In these videos, Dutton will often dress up in face paint, makeup, wigs, hats, and other costumes to mock people. There is nothing positive on his channel. 
Aiden Bridgeman from the University of Aberdeen has commented on this:
Dutton has also attacked males who play video-games as unhealthy incels and unproductive members of society who have lost interest in competing for females. However, Dutton spends the majority of his life on his computer and looks unwell with giant bags under his eyes.Why the Online Game Fortnite Should Be Banned to Save the Male The Jolly Heretic (Aug 13, 2021) YouTube. Outside of criticizing people on his podcasts and videos, Dutton doesn't appear to have any real life interests.
===Whitewashing his Wikipedia article===
Dutton was suspected of editing his own Wikipedia page or getting someone he knew to remove sources that were either critical of his ideas or mentioned his associations with far-right political groups. In March 2021, multiple single-purpose users (who suspiciously only edited his page) showed up removing the words "far-right" and "white supremacist" from the introduction to his article.Edward Dutton (author): Revision history Wikipedia. In April 2021, Dutton (who seemed to watch his Wikipedia article like a hawk, more evidence he edited it himself) stated:
However, there is no evidence that "leftists" edited his article, and the latter claim is impossible because Wikipedia users cannot delete their own history.
Dutton's complaint that "Marxist" sources were used in his article is also dubious. The main source for describing Dutton as far-right and white supremacist was The Gaudie, a newspaper published by the University of Aberdeen.
In April 2021, one of the suspicious accounts removing critical sources from Dutton's article was blocked from editing the article indefinitely.User talk:Saxon celt#May 2021 (00:19, 22 May 2021) Wikipedia In May 2022, Dutton's Wikipedia article was deleted.Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edward Dutton (author)Although there isn't an English Wikipedia article about him anymore, there are still Wikipedia articles about Edward Dutton in and The English Wikipedia also still has a page about Dutton's 2008 book 
Perhaps the ultimate insult for someone as pretentious as Dutton, is that his Wikipedia page was deleted by consensus for lack of general or academic notability in 2022.Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edward Dutton (author) Wikipedia.
===Whitewashing his involvement with the white nationalist party Patriotic Alternative===
Dutton in the past tried to whitewash his association and involvement with the white nationalist group Patriotic Alternative (PA) claiming that he only spoke at one of their conferencesI spoke at one of their conferences. That is all. by Edward Dutton (10.08 - April 14 2021) Twitter (archived from April 14, 2021). and suggesting he doesn't agree with their extremist views. However, Dutton's speech at the PA conference reveals he's committed to PA's ideology.Dutton's speech Radio Albion (archived from May 11, 2020). At the end of the speech, Dutton, in front of an audience of white nationalists and neo-Nazis including founder Mark Collett, said the following words:
Dutton's claim that this conference is his only connection to PA is misleading as he is a friend of Collett. Dutton has regularly appeared on the This Week on the Alt Right podcast with Collett. In June 2021, Dutton tweeted that he has not seen any evidence that PA is associated with Nazis (even though its founder Collett is a neo-Nazi) and the group supports Holocaust denial.I've seen no evidence of that. by Edward Dutton (10:47 AM - 3 Jun 2021) Twitter (archived from 3 Jun 2021 21:57:54 UTC). In response to journalist Colin Liddell telling him, "PA and Scandza are actual Nazis."Patriotic Alternative _ Uniting the Fascist Right? by Simon Murdoch (2020) Hope Not Hate. Dutton has also appeared on the neo-Nazi Podcast Radio Albion hosted by Collett and Max Musson, and appeared on Collett's Patriotic Weekly Review podcast.Truth Will Out Radio: Professor Edward Dutton on Winston Churchill’s Headmaster – TWOR 020521 (5th February 2021) Radio Albion.Patriotic Weekly Review: Edward Dutton – PWR 021021 (February 10, 2021) Radio Albion.
As of August 2022, Dutton is a regular on Collett's podcast.
===Public Square Magazine controversy 2023===
On March 6 2023, Public Square Magazine which describes itself as the "most read non-official Latter-day Saint periodical" published an article sympathetic to a paper co-authored by Kirkegaard and Dutton in 2022, which argued "Latter-day Saints in the USA show slightly positive selection for intelligence, whereas all other religious groups examined did not robustly differ from the average."Will Intelligent Latter-day Saints and Smart Conservatives Inherit the Earth? Differential Selection for Intelligence in the USA Based on Religiosity and Conservatism by Emil Kirkegaard & Edward Dutton (2023) Evolutionary Psychological Science 9:26-37. Three weeks later the article was retracted and deleted with the following added note by the editor:
Complaints were sent to the magazine editor about not only Kirkegaard's white supremacist beliefs but controversial writings on pedophilia and legalising child pornography.How did I miss this piece of hot garbage from Mormon Exceptionalism Magazine? by @AuntPeggysPrivy (4:48 AM · Mar 23, 2023) Twitter (archived from 27 Mar 2023 19:28:02 UTC).Dudes the editor and went to Harvard so no way he doesn’t know he is amplifying a child porn advocate Somebody call child services by Lazy Learner @Spector37214958 (5:36 PM · Mar 23, 2023) Twitter (archived from March 6, 2024). Beliefs that are not atypical for LDS members either, however.Recordings show how Mormon church kept child sex abuse claims secret (Dec 4, 2023 3:18 PM EST) PBS News.
==The Jolly Heretic podcast==
Far-right influencers interviewed on Dutton's podcast include:
Dutton's podcast videos are uploaded to BitChute, Odysee and Rumble.Dr Edward Dutton: The Jolly Heretic BitChute.Prof. Edward Dutton: The Jolly Heretic Odysee.Prof. Edward Dutton: The Jolly Heretic Rumble. Selective clips are uploaded to his YouTube channel.The Jolly Heretic The Jolly Heretic, YouTube.
John Oliver Allen Rayner-Hilles, a software engineer, has described himself as working behind the scenes of The Jolly Heretic.The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution by Edward Dutton & J.O.A. Rayner-Hilles (2022) Societas. ISBN 1788360753. Amazon page, "About the author" section (archived from January 5, 2023).
In March 2024, Dutton's Jolly Heretic podcast was suspended from and Podcast Addict, presumably for breaking their terms of service on discrimination and hate speech.Edward Dutton the Jolly Heretic Player FM (archived from 9 Mar 2024 17:36:40 UTC).Edward Dutton the Jolly Heretic Podcast Addict (archived from 5 Mar 2024 06:24:16 UTC).
==Views on RationalWiki==
Dutton is dislikes his RationalWiki article, describing it on his blog as an "extreme-Woke, anti-science website which defames and simply concocts information about scholars it dislikes because these scholars’ research questions Woke dogmas."Oh, My God! Your Rat Wiki Page! by Edward Dutton (c. 2022) The Jolly Heretic.
In his response to his RationalWiki page, Dutton dishonestly denied being transphobic despite the fact that he has described transgender people as "spiteful mutants", "garbage", and "mentally ill" on white nationalist podcasts. In an article published for Richard Spencer's Radix Journal, Dutton also called transgender people "maladaptive", "spiteful mutants" and other derogatory and offensive terms.Born Again by Edward Dutton (February 4, 2021 7:17 am) Radix (archived from March 4, 2021).
Oddly, Dutton denies being racist and/or a white supremacist despite the fact that his extremely racist speeches can be heard online. The quote below is part of a transcript of a racist speech Dutton gave at a Traditional Britain Group meeting in 2022 hosted by the far-right activist and convicted criminal Gregory Lauder-Frost:
Dutton's uses a variant of the fallacious friend argument to deny accusations of sexism, racism and transphobia. He claims for example he cannot be a racist because he has invited "to interview on his show academics and other writers who were Sub-Saharan African, Southeast Asian, and South Asian". The "Southeast Asian" is Michelle Malkin.Michelle Malkin Joins Us to Explore What's Happening in America by Edward Dutton (August 4, 2022) Odysee. She was dropped by conservative organization Young America's Foundation in 2019 for openly associating with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and supporting anti-Semites.Michelle Malkin shunned by conservatives over support for antisemites by Donna Rachel Edmunds (November 20, 2019 12:11) The Jerusalem Post.
==Crazed fans==
Even though Dutton's theories have found little to no support in the mainstream, he has his own internet fan club, as evidenced by his number of followers on YouTube. He is presented as an "expert" in nutty forums. His spiteful mutant hypothesis has found support as well as criticism in the schizophrenia support community.Dutton's spiteful mutants (Jan 23, 2023) Schizoid Forums. A thread in a schizophrenia support forum.
==See also==
*Erik Ahrens — founder of GegenUni who promotes Dutton's spiteful mutant hypothesis
*Asbiro University — where Dutton was controversially appointed a "Professor of Evolutionary Psychology"
*Anatoly Karlin — appeared on Dutton's talk show in May 2022. He has been described as the worst guest for "incoherent rambling".Russian Commentator Anatoly Karlin Gives Us the Russian Perspective On This Ukraine Malarky by Dr Edward Dutton: The Jolly Heretic (20:41 UTC on May 5th, 2022) Bitchute (archived from May 8, 2022).
*Emil Kirkegaard
*Tara McCarthy
*Scandza Forum — a far-right conference that Dutton has attended
==External links==
* Dr. Edward Dutton: The Jolly Heretic — his channel on YouTube 
*@jollyheretic on Twitter
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