Heiner Rindermann

Heiner Rindermann is a German hereditarian psychologist and advocate of race realism pseudoscience who currently sits on the Editorial Board of the controversial journal Intelligence.It might be a pseudo science, but students take the threat of eugenics seriously. newstatesman.com.Editorial board. sciencedirect.com. His research "is often cited by racists seeking to prove that immigrants have low IQs".Peter Thiel Shamed For Association With Racists. queerty.com. Archived. Rindermann is associated with the far-right; for example, he spoke at a conference in 2016, delivering an anti-immigration talk: "Cognitive and Cultural 'Enrichment' of Europe by Immigration".Heiner Rindermann, "Cognitive and Cultural ‘Enrichment’ of Europe by Immigration" (PFS 2016). Annual conferences by the PFS have been described as "serious academic racist events" by the SPLC.Researchers tied to hate groups get invitations. Review Journal. 11 Mar 2007. He also attended the London Conference on Intelligence with white supremacists such as Emil Kirkegaard, with whom he reviews papers for OpenPsych.Heiner Rindermann. openpsych.net. Rindermann identifies as a racialist; for example, in his book Cognitive Capitalism, he argues for the existence of racial differences.Review: Cognitive Capitalism (Heiner Rindermann). emilkirkegaard.dk. Archived.
Rindermann is a writer for the anti-Semitic website The Unz Review.The Coronavirus and Its Social Consequences. unz.com. Archived. In 2021 and 2024, Rindermann was interviewed by Holocaust denier Lipton Matthews.Dr. Heiner Rindermann on the Importance of the Cognitive Elite. youtube.com.Yes, some countries do have low IQ scores. youtube.com.
Rindermann has recently published pseudoscience on the intelligence of refugees in Germany for the Journal of Controversial Ideas with James Thompson, a writer for The Unz Review.James Thompson. unz.com.
==Background==
Rindermann obtained a PhD in psychology from University of Heidelberg in 1995. He is currently a Professor of Educational and Developmental Psychology at Chemnitz University of Technology.Prof. Dr. Heiner Rindermann. tu-chemnitz.de.
==Race and IQ pseudoscience==
Rindermann's racialist pseudoscience is popular among white nationalists, since he argues that immigrants from the Middle East and Africa have lower IQs than native ethnic groups from Europe and that these mean group differences (that he overestimates to begin with) are significantly the result of genetics.
 
His writings on race and intelligence are for example promoted on the white nationalist American Renaissance,Haplogroups as Evolutionary Markers of Cognitive Ability. amren.com. Archived. VDARE,https://vdare.com/posts/german-labor-experts-syrian-refugees-worthless-unemployablesRindermann: Who Has Highest Iq: Left, Right, Or Center?. vdare.com. Archived. The Unz Review,Rindermann: Who has highest IQ: left, right, or center?Rindermann's "Smart Fraction" Paper. unz.com.Cognitive Capitalism. unz.com. and the far-right The New Observer:
Rindermann has also written papers for the racist journal Mankind Quarterly.Cognitive Sex Differences: Evolution and History In 2020, he co-authored a paper with Michael A. Woodley of Menie on an alleged "Erasing Race" effect in the United States.A Meta-Analysis of the “Erasing Race” Effect in the United States and Some Theoretical Considerations
==London Conference on Intelligence==
Rindermann was a speaker at the London Conference on Intelligence.University College London under fire over its conferences on ‘eugenics’. thetimes.com.
===2015===
===2016===
==Incorrect statements about RationalWiki==
In 2023, Rindermann authored a book chapter "The Advantages of Having a Minority Viewpoint in Politicized Psychology: A Case Study of Intelligence Research" which criticizes RationalWiki's negative stance on race and intelligence (hereditarianism).The Advantages of Having a Minority Viewpoint in Politicized Psychology: A Case Study of Intelligence Research Rindermann cites two articles on Robert Plomin and Richard Haier; however, these articles had originally been written by Emil Kirkegaard as a parody to discredit RationalWiki and have since been entirely re-written.RationalWiki and Intelligence Researchers
==Paper retraction==
In September 2024, Rindermann had a peer-reviewed article retracted in the journal Discover Education for methodological issues and other flaws:
===Journal of Controversial Ideas===
Rindermann ended up publishing his pseudoscience on the intelligence of refugees in Germany in the Journal of Controversial Ideas with James Thompson.Intelligence of Refugees in Germany: Levels, Differences and Possible Determinants. journalofcontroversialideas.org. Their paper was criticized by Eric Turkheimer who found critical flaws and lack of scientific rigor:
==See also==
* Gerhard Meisenberg
* James Thompson
==References==
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