Russell T. Warne

Russell T. Warne is an American psychologist, hereditarian, eugenicist and pro-natalist who has defended race realism pseudoscience and is a writer for the far-right Aporia Magazine.Misrepresents the Science: Review of Russell T. Warne’s In The Know. psycheandsense.com.The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology. Aporia Magazine He is also a speaker on their podcast with white nationalist Bo Winegard. Between 2011 and 2022, he taught at Utah Valley University.About. russellwarne.com. Warne has written for the Mankind Quarterly, a pseudo-journal known for publishing racist material.Continental Genetic Ancestry Source Correlates with Global Cognitive Ability Score. mankindquarterly.org.Draper’s Millions: The Philanthropic Wellspring of Modern Race Science. race.undark.org.Richard Lynn. Southern Poverty Law Center. In April 2024, Warne was employed as a research psychologist for the US Army.Russell T. Warne. linkedin.com.
Warne is supportive of Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.What Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter Can Teach Academia. Mindingthecampus.org. He also writes for Quillette.https://quillette.com/author/russell-t-warne/Russell T. Warne. Quillette.com. Warne has obtained funding from Emil Kirkegaard's white nationalist Human Diversity Foundation.Race Science Inc. Undercover in The Human Diversity Foundation, the million-dollar race science company. hopenothate.org.uk. Archived.Protocol for a meta-analysis of stereotype threat in African Americans by Russell T. Warne & Ross A. A Larsen. (2024) PLoS One 19(7):e0306030. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0306030. He is chief scientist of Riot IQ, a research team behind RIOT (Reasoning and Intelligence Online Test).https://archive.is/8BMgy Its X.com account is known for supporting far-right activists such as eyeslasho.
==Race and intelligence research==
Warne's race and intelligence research is popular with white nationalists such as Emil Kirkegaard and Steve Sailer.Warne: Between-Group Mean Differences in Intelligence in the United States Are >0% Genetically Caused: Five Converging Lines of Evidence. unz.com. Kirkegaard has claimed to have verified his research with John Fuerst in the Mankind Quarterly and has uploaded a paper by Warne to his own website.Between-Group Mean Differences in Intelligence in the United States Are >0% Genetically Caused: Five Converging Lines of Evidence. emilkirkegaard.dk.A plethora of evidence for genetic influence of American race-ethnic gaps in intelligence. emilkirkegaard.dk.A Genetic Hypothesis for American Race/Ethnic Differences in Mean g: A Reply to Warne (2021) with Fifteen New Empirical Tests Using the ABCD Dataset. researchgate.com. In regard to Warne's involvement with the Mankind Quarterly, historian John P. Jr. Jackson has commented that "Dr. Warne is either unable to recognize a racist journal when he sees one or, worse, he sees it and just doesn’t care. In either case, he has lent his name, his university’s name, and his discipline’s name to a disreputable journal of shoddy scholarship".Stephen Hsu and academic freedom. altrightorigins.com. In 2022, Warne resigned from Utah Valley University and on his website has described issues he had with the university.Goodbye, Tenured Faculty Position!. russellwarne.com. 
Warne is on the editorial board of the Intelligence journal.Editorial board. sciencedirect.com. He is supportive of Charles Murray's race and intelligence research and positively reviewed his 2020 book Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class.Initial Thoughts on Charles Murray's Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race and Class. russellwarne.com. In 2021, Warne was interviewed by Holocaust denier Lipton Matthews.Debunking the Biggest Myths About Intelligence. youtube.com.
===In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence===
Warne argues for biological races in his book In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence, published in 2020. It has been promoted by the International Society for Intelligence Research and was positively reviewed by James Thompson on the anti-Semitic website The Unz Review.Publication of a new book by Dr Russell T. Warne. isironline.org.35 Myths Debunked. unz.com. However, his claims about race have no scientific basis and have been debunked by clinical psychologist Michael R. Jackson.
===International Society for Intelligence Research===
Warne was a speaker at the 2017 and 2019 and International Society for Intelligence Research annual conferences.International Society for Intelligence Research 2017 Annual Conference. programme.exordo.com.International Society for Intelligence Research 2019 Annual Conference. isironline.org His work was presented at the 2018 conference.Survey of Americans' Beliefs Regarding Intelligence at the 19TH ANNUAL MEETING OF ISIR: Edinburgh 2018 retrieved August 19, 2024
Warne attended ISIR 2024 with Emil Kirkegaard (see below).
==Pro-natalism and eugenics==
He wrote a pro-natalist article for the far-right Aporia Magazine titled "The West's Fertility Crisis".The West's Fertility Crisis. Aporia Magazine. Warne is also supportive of eugenics and has stated: "Everybody becomes a eugenicist when they have to choose a sperm of egg donor".https://archive.is/Z4yzR
Warne has described women who are voluntarily childless as "selfish". For example, he has remarked:
==Riot IQ==
Warne is chief scientist of an organization called Riot IQ - "We are a team building the Reasoning and Intelligence Online Test (RIOT)"RiotIQ Team Retrieved August 19, 2024. During the 2024 conference of the International Society for Intelligence Research, the RiotIQ Twitter/X account tweeted information about the conference including presentations. One of the tweets, quickly removed, showed Emil Kirkegaard making a presentation at the conference.
The Riot IQ on X.com is supportive of the far-right HBD account eyeslasho that posts about the inferiority of black peoplehttps://archive.is/bXbLh, commenting that "our team members follow you and enjoy your posts":
==Studying Correlations between Genetic Variation and Test Score Gaps==
In 2024, Warne authored two chapters for the book Studying Correlations between Genetic Variation and Test Score Gaps, co-edited by white supremacist John G. R. Fuerst.Studying Correlations between Genetic Variation and Test Score Gaps. google.co.uk. Others who contributed include Noah Carl, Nathan Cofnas, Bryan J. Pesta, Emil Kirkegaard, Gerhard Meisenberg and Davide Piffer. The volume is basically a Who's Who of hereditarians. It was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing which is not affiliated with Cambridge University Press or the University of Cambridge.
==Human Diversity Foundation==
Warne obtained funding from Emil Kirkegaard's Human Diversity Foundation. They funded his 2024 paper "Protocol for a meta-analysis of stereotype threat in African Americans" published in the journal PLoS One.
==Selected publications==
*In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020
==See also==
*Eyeslasho - American white nationalist who Warne follows on x.com.
*Helmuth Nyborg - Danish white supremacist who promotes race pseudoscience.
==References==
Category:Aporia Magazine
Category:Eugenics supporters
Category:Human Diversity Foundation‎
Category:Living people
Category:Psychologists
Category:Racialism pseudoscientists