J. Philippe Rushton

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'''J. Philippe Rushton''' {{lived|1943|2012}} was a [[psychologist]] and pioneer [[racialist]] [[pseudoscience]]. He was an English-born Canadian who worked as a professor at the University of Western Ontario from 1977 (although only a full professor from 1985) until his death in 2012.<ref>[https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jean-philippe-rushton J. Philippe Rushton], [[Southern Poverty Law Center]]</ref> His specific specialty was "differential K theory", a misapplication of the grossly outdated and oversimplified {{wpl|R/K selection theory||,}} postulated by [[E. O. Wilson]], which argued that "Negroids" were more r-selected, while "Mongoloids" were more k-selected, with "Caucasoids" in between.<ref>{{Cite journal |last= Rushton |first= J. P. |date=1996-02 |title= Race, genetics, and human reproductive strategies |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8851328/ |journal=Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs |volume=122 |issue=1 |pages=21–53 |issn=8756-7547 |pmid= 8851328}}</ref> He frequently collaborated with [[Arthur Jensen]], and the two of them often praised each other's work.<ref>{{Cite journal |last= Rushton |first= J. Philippe |last2= Jensen |first2= Arthur R. |date= 2005-06 |title= Thirty years of research on race differences in cognitive ability. |url= http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1076-8971.11.2.235 |journal= Psychology, Public Policy, and Law |volume= 11 |issue= 2 |pages= 235–294 |doi=10.1037/1076-8971.11.2.235 |issn=1939-1528}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last= Rushton |first=J.Philippe |date=1998-01 |title=The 'Jensen Effect' and the 'Spearman-Jensen hypothesis' of Black-White IQ differences |url= http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0160-2896(99)80004-x |journal= Intelligence |volume= 26 |issue= 3 |pages= 217–225 |doi=10.1016/s0160-2896(99)80004-x |issn=0160-2896}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last= Jensen |first= Arthur R. |date= 2013-07 |title= Rushton's contributions to the study of mental ability |url= http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.03.008 |journal= Personality and Individual Differences |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=212–217 |doi=10.1016/j.paid.2012.03.008 |issn=0191-8869}}</ref>

Rushton's research papers have been criticised for [[confirmation bias]], overinterpreting minor trends in data and citing of "non-scientific sources of evidence, such as semi-[[pornography|pornographic]] literature (e.g., ''Penthouse'' or anonymous notes by "the French Army Surgeon" from 1898)".{{efn|The "French army surgeon" (who was not technically anonymous, as the author wrote under the pseudonym "Dr. Jacobus X") was part of a genre of Victorian-era pornography that purported to be anthropology reports. Modern anthropologists refer to works like this as "anthroporn".<ref name=Cemovsky>{{Cite journal |last= Cemovsky |first= Zack Z. |date=1993-08 |title=J. P. Rushton's Aggregational Errors in Racial Psychology |url= http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00957984930193004 |journal= Journal of Black Psychology |volume= 19 |issue= 3 |pages= 282–289 |doi= 10.1177/00957984930193004 |issn= 0095-7984}}</ref>{{rp|283}}

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