Arthur Jensen

[[File:Arthur Jensen Vanderbilt 2002.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Arthur Jensen in 2002.]]
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'''Arthur Jensen''' {{lived|1923|2012}} was an [[United States|American]] [[white nationalist]] and [[psychologist]] who was arguably the father of modern day [[hereditarianism]] [[pseudoscience]] with the publication of an article in the ''Harvard Educational Review'' (1969).<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/science/arthur-r-jensen-who-set-off-debate-on-iq-dies.html His New York Times obituary]</ref>

Although presenting himself as a political [[centrist]] and "objective scientist", the [[SPLC]] classifies Jensen as a white nationalist providing evidence of racist statements he made, as well as his associations with the [[far-right]].<ref>https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/arthur-jensen</ref>

==The fake latter-day Galileo==

As noted by the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]]:

{{cquote|Jensen worked hard to develop a reputation as an objective scientist who “just never thought along [racial] lines,” and to portray critics of his racist conclusions as politically motivated and unscientific. His followers and [[Jared Taylor|allies]] have continued to push this narrative, [[Galileo gambit|presenting Jensen as a latter-day Galileo]], unfairly [[Persecution complex|persecuted]] for his pursuit of scientific truth.}}

They point out though the "mask did occasionally slip" and Jensen exposed his underlying political agenda:

* Jensen in 1992 was interviewed by the white nationalist [[Jared Taylor]] for ''[[American Renaissance]]'' and both of them agreed on numerous things that are common beliefs or goals of white nationalists e.g. the reduction of black birth rates, but non-reduction of white birth rates, support of [[eugenics]] and the pseudoscientific idea the black-white [[IQ]] gap is predominantly genetic, rather than sociocultural environmental (i.e. what became known as [[hereditarianism|Jensenism]]) and the [[right-wing]] conspiracy theory [[cultural Marxist]] "egalitarians" have taken over academia and suppress opposing viewpoints.<ref>[https://www.amren.com/news/2012/10/arthur-jensen-has-died/ A Conversation with Arthur Jensen]. ''American Renaissance'', August and September 1992.</ref>
* Jensen sat on the Editorial Board of the German [[neo-Nazi]] journal ''Neue Anthropologie'' (''NA'') published by the Society for Biological Anthropology, Eugenics and Behavioural Research and also wrote the ''NA'' article "Die falschen Anschuldigungen gegen Sir Cyril Burt" (1977).
* Jensen's controversial research on [[race and intelligence]] was financially supported by the white supremacist [[Pioneer Fund]].
* Jensen was a [[racialist]] who held pseudoscientific views about race; in ''Intelligence, Race, And Genetics: Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen'' (2002) he is quoted as arguing there are 6 human races as genetic clusters, i.e. "Negroids", Australian aborigines/Melanesians, Pacific Islanders/Southeast Asians, "Mongoloids", Amerindians/Eskimos and "Caucasoids". Needless to say, Jensen was uneducated about [[Racialism#Clines|clines]] and [[Racialism#Population_genetics|population genetics]].
* Jensen in 1973 argued there is possibly a link between skin colour and intelligence, writing "[t]he possibility of a biochemical connection between skin pigmentation and intelligence is not totally unlikely". The SPLC notes: "Jensen’s statement boils down to the claim that dark skin causes stupidity. No biologist would ever take such a statement seriously, and indeed, none has—though it is now a widely accepted belief among [[white supremacists]]."
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