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J. Philippe Rushton died of cancer in October

22.12.2012. John Philippe (“Phil”) Rushton, age 68, passed away on October 2, 2012 after a courageous battle with cancer, characteristically publishing papers even during his illness. Thus writes Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, Canada, in rememberance of Phil Rushton. The obituary continues (link in original):

Phil was born in Bournemouth, England but lived his early years and took his early education in several countries including Canada. Returning to England in the 1960s, he earned a B.Sc. in psychology from the University of London in 1970 and a Ph.D. (1973) from the London School of Economics. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Oxford, Phil returned to Canada, teaching at York University (1974-1976) and the University of Toronto until 1977, in which year he accepted an appointment in the Psychology Department at the University of Western Ontario where he remained until his death. He was promoted to full professor in 1985. Phil published more than 200 articles, six books, including a co-authored introductory psychology textbook and was a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1988).

Phil’s early work followed from his PhD dissertation on altruism in children, resulting in highly cited papers based on social learning theory, and a well-received book, “Altruism, socialization and society (1980)”. Phil had wide interests centered on the understanding of individual differences. In addition to his research on altruism, he worked on personality traits, such as those expressed by professors in the classroom and by community health volunteers, he published on scientific excellence and on mainline methodological issues, such as data aggregation.

However, Phil’s career to a large extent was defined by work that first hit the news in 1989, in a paper he gave to a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. By this time, Phil had started to consider biological explanations for altruistic behaviors, such as genetic similarity theory and arguments popularized by E.O. Wilson’s 1975 book on Sociobiology. In his AAAS talk and subsequently, Phil argued that racial groups systematically differed on a set of personality and intellectual characteristics and he claimed that these differences were genetically based. These ideas were immediately criticized and led to a firestorm of opposition both across Canada and worldwide. Phil persevered always in defending and elaborating on those controversial ideas, including in his 1995 book, “Race, Evolution, and Behavior”. He was to the end willing to engage his critics, often by looking for additional supportive evidence of his theory.

It is not the place in an obituary to debate the logic, methodology or data Phil presented. That is the place and domain of the scientific community. What did become clear in 1989 and beyond was that the discussion of race from a biological perspective in which some groups were ranked lower on intellectual and moral dimensions was repugnant to many and would not be constrained nor contained in scholarly journals or debates.

Phil's ideas posed a challenge to the basic tenets of academic freedom and led to debate at Western and beyond. Community groups, politicians (including the then-Premier of Ontario, David Peterson), and students who perceived the work as scientific racism voiced their opposition, often calling for his dismissal from the university. The Ontario Provincial Police conducted an investigation to see if there were grounds for charges (there were not), and 19 individuals initiated human rights violation cases with the Ontario Human Rights Commission (but after years of stress for Phil, these cases were considered abandoned when the complainants failed to respond). There were demonstrations that disrupted Phil’s classes, and vandalized parts of the psychology department. Distressingly, many interested parties, even faculty members themselves, seemed oblivious to the essential role that academic freedom plays in the life of scholarly work in general. As noted by the Canadian Association of University Teachers, academic freedom is the “right to teach, learn, study and publish free of orthodoxy or threat of reprisal and discrimination”, calling it “the life blood of the modern university”. Ultimately, in defiance of the barrage of criticism that Western was facing- and showcasing the university at its best- the President of the University of Western Ontario (George Pederson) came out with a strong statement in defense of the precedence of upholding the concept of academic freedom. Although these events led to his isolation and reclusiveness within the Western professoriate, Phil Rushton remained at Western, continued to submit his papers to peer-reviewed journals and allowed his ideas to face the crucible of the scientific community.

J. Philippe Rushton is survived by his children Stephen and Katherine, granddaughters Jasmine and Aundreia and great-granddaughter Paige. Also survived by his brother Peter. Those wishing to make a donation in memory of Phil are asked to consider the London Regional Cancer Program - Research.

A link to Dr. Rushton's research can be found here.

This obituary was published by Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario.

 

Western countries

Dumber by the day

IQ distributions have significant impacts in many areas of society. Illustration copied from Dispatch International.

01.12.2012. Differential fertility and the recent massive low-IQ migration from South to North explain why Europe and the US get dumber by the day. Yet, leading political and academic elites neither understand why, nor see the devastating consequences of this demographic transition. Thus writes Professor emeritus Helmuth Nyborg in his article Western countries get dumber by the day. Towards the end of his article he concludes:

The sad situation is not unique for Denmark. Actually it is worse in Sweden. Not only has Sweden had more immigrants from non-Western countries than Denmark, but leading politicians even encourage further immigration. The first signs of an imminent catastrophe are already there. In many Swedish counties the social expenses to support non-Western immigrants and their children in need have exploded. For example, in Wexsjö, foreign born consume 23.5 times more money from the state than ethnic Swedes, and this is probably only the beginning. In all large Swedish towns ethnic Swedes are estimated to become a minority by 2050. A large city like Malmö is already close.

The demographic situation is still worse in Great Britain. Right now only 20 percent of all children born in London are offspring of the dwindling group of ethnic Brits, whereas the remaining 80 percent are from fertile immigrants. Clearly, non-Westerners are taking over Britain at exponential speed, that is, by doubling their number per time interval. Few people understand the dire consequences of exponential growth, but they will soon see a hard demonstration before their own eyes.

[...]

Yet, the subject is taboo almost everywhere. A scientific analysis of the Swedish situation was sent to all large newspaper in the country but not one dared take up the subject. Absolute Swedish silence, you can say. The European peoples have never been asked by their leading political and academic elites if this is what they want and the international agreements block any attempt to change this state of affairs.

Another largely neglected aspect of immigration from non-Western countries into Northern Europe is the following: The low intelligence of African migrants (average IQs between 68 and 75) will not only drag drown, say, Danish IQ, but also constitutes an inexcusable brain drain from non-Western countries, where intelligent people are badly needed. An unknown number of migrants may have higher than average IQ for their country. This makes both the non-Western and the Western countries dumber, and everybody looses.

To sum up, not only Denmark but Europe and the US get dumber by internal dysgenic decay and by northbound mass-immigration. This will have catastrophic consequences for Western democracy and welfare, but non-Western countries will also suffer.

Unfortunately, most ruling (left- or right-oriented) Western leaders are not only seriously misguided by the illusion of equality but also blatantly ignorant of biological realities, so they can’t see the elephant in the room. They eventually will, but that will be beyond the point of no return. By then they have already irreparably damaged the basic premise for the existence of a democratic welfare state: An average national IQ above 90. One may wonder how they can be held responsible for this crime against democracy and humanity.

Read the entire article in Dispatch International.

This caused an uproar among certain truth-deniers within the Swedish elites. Writes Prof. Nyborg in his follow-up article Everybody is hurt when journalists confuse science with politics:

A few days ago, the journalist Niklas Orrenius published an article in the Swedish newspaper Expressen (November 25, 2012 – The scandal will pursue Sverigedemokraterne; Swedish link). The story was that “racism and extremism” flourish in party. According to Orrenius, this is seen most clearly in the SD's decision to send free copies of Dispatch International to all party members. Expressen's journalist is particularly aghast at Dispatch International's September 20 issue, which carried an article by me.

Orrenius reports that racism is reflected in five statements from the article: 1) Immigrants are “korkade”, i.e. stupid; 2) Massive low-IQ immigration makes Sweden’s national average IQ drop; 3) Democracy is rarely seen in countries with an average IQ lower than 90; 4) Massive low-IQ but high-fertility immigration to Europe and USA combined with the low fertility of the native populations will cause average intelligence to drop in both geographic areas; 5) In primordial times, cold winters eliminated the weak and less intelligent but the modern welfare state reverses this natural selection process and causes the gene pool to decay.

This, according to Expressen, is pure racism and extremism, and for that reason no other political party in Sweden would ever touch Dispatch International with a barge pole. To stress his point, Orrenius adds that “all established parties now despise the SD even more”.

This journalistic treatment is interesting because it targets a scientific report, published after anonymous specialist peer-review in a professional international journal, which was the basis of my article in Dispatch International. If the scientific observations in my article are correct, as I believe they are, the Swedish public should be made aware of them. That is not likely to happen as long as Expressen and all other leading Swedish newspapers only see racism and extremism in inconvenient scientific reports.

To test the validity of Niklas Orrenius' accusations of racism, we will take a look at whether he either: 1) misunderstands, 2) cannot count, 3) is scientifically illiterate, 4) is ignorant of recent demographics, or 5) simply doesn’t understand the consequences of evolution – or is perhaps guilty of all these errors combined.

Continue reading in Dispatch International. DI also followed up Nyborg's article with an editorial which in my opinion hits the nail on its head (and which I therefore take the liberty of quoting in its entirety):

”Western countries get dumber by the day” is the title of professor Helmuth Nyborg’s contribution to this edition of Dispatch International. Hardly an encouraging message from the internationally respected and in some circles stigmatized IQ researcher.

The fact that many European countries have experienced mass immigration from areas with an average IQ far below the norm in, e.g., Denmark cannot help but lowering the average IQ in the host countries. According to professor Nyborg, this is already happening and if the trend continues over the coming decades – as seems reasonable to expect – we are bound to reach a point where our population is no longer smart enough to have a democracy let alone a welfare state.

This is to be sure a novel and radically different perspective on immigration, which has been debated far and wide over the past decades.

For IQ researchers there is hardly anything new or sensational in Helmuth Nyborg’s findings or the conclusions he draws from them, but the discussion has been relegated to scientific journals that are never read by the ordinary citizen. The mainstream media have refused to touch the subject.

To Dispatch International there are two possibilities: Either professor Nyborg’s scientific findings are wrong or misleading, but in that case those who claim to know better should come forward and explain where he is mistaken. Or there is nothing wrong with Helmuth Nyborg’s research, and if that is the case, what would be the argument against giving the ordinary citizen access to it?

It may not be nice if reality is as described by Helmuth Nyborg, but reality doesn’t get any better by being concealed. No matter what, we shall have to live with the consequences.

One may also ask if it is particularly nice or charitable towards our descendants to allow a development that will most likely make life impossible for them – and surely deprive them of the chance to live in a democracy or a welfare state like the one we have today.

Have we the right to make this choice on behalf of our children and grandchildren?

The debate is open. Let it be conducted by means of rational argument.

These last quotes are taken from a DI editorial written by the Danish historian, journalist, and author Lars Hedegaard, founder and president of the International Free Press Society.

PS: DI has lately been the target of hacker attacks, which appear to involve Swedish MSM.

Helmuth Nyborg is prof. emer, AU (1968-2007) of developmental psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

 

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Do not believe the confessions of tortured texts.

Abdal Hakim Murad, Contentions 11/92

 

This healthy instinct to poke fun at an unbalanced piety is the same instinct that makes us laugh at a one-armed man rowing a boat. He is not failing to make an effort, but he lacks balance. The unbalanced pietist, however, may not see the joke; and herein is a deadly threat.

Abdal Hakim Murad, Commentary on the Eleventh Contentions, (#86), page 151

 

Suicide bombing is an extreme way of shooting oneself in the foot.

Abdal Hakim Murad, Contentions 4/49

 

Meanwhile, individuals such as Stephen Jay Gould, who commit outright academic fraud in support of their ideological positions, do enormous damage to the credibility of their own camp.

Ron Unz, Race, IQ, and Wealth - What the facts tell us about a taboo subjec, The American Conservative, 18 July 2012

 

When the black Messiah (Nelson Mandela) dies, we'll teach the whites. We'll commit genocide against them: I hate whites.

South African police officer Juda Dagane, quoted by IOLnews

 

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

 

There is more than one way to burn a book.

Ray Bradbury

 

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

John Adams (US diplomat & politician, 1735 - 1826), 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770

 

Human nature is violent and predatory and can be held in check only by three forces, the Grace of God, the fear of the gallows and the pressure of a social tradition, subtly and unconsciously operating as a brake on human instinct.

T.E. Utley (1921 - 1988)

 

[It's] another step in a long-term goal of [his]: the peaceful, nonviolent disappearance of the white race.

Tom Hayden, congratulating his son on marrying a black woman, 27.08.2007

 

We need more speech, more liberty, not less. If this law passes, I shall break it as a point of principle. A hyperlink is not an act of approval, but an act of sourcing: It says to the reader I trust you to go to the source and make an informed judgment. In denying that freedom to the citizen, the state couldn't be more explicit in its contempt for you.

Mark Steyn commenting on a proposed law in Canada, The Criminalization of the Link, 10.05.2011

 

There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. [...] The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

John Swinton, chief editorial writer at The New York Times from 1860 to 1870 and an editorial writer for The New York Sun from 1875 to 1897

 

We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't know what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.

Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister of Luxembourg and the EU's longest-serving head of government, quoted in The Economist, 23.09.2004

 

He is right to argue that immigration on the scale that Europe has experienced consitutues a risky experiment. He is right that we frequently talk about it in stupid and dishonest ways.

The Guardian, commenting on Christopher Caldwell's book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe

 

Try to repopulate Thailand with Scots and Slovaks and see whether what results is still Thailand.

Takuan Seiyo, Gates of Vienna, 12.12.2010

 

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Winston Churchill

 

A West which has not yet understood that whites, in a world become too small for its inhabitants, are now a minority and that the proliferation of other races dooms our race, my race, irretrievably to extinction in the century to come, if we hold fast to our present moral principles.

Jean Raspail, 1982, The Camp of the Saints

 

Those who subscribe to the opinion that there are no human races are obviously ignorant of modern biology.

Ernst Mayr (2002)

 

It is irrelevant whether Wilder’s witnesses might prove Wilders’ observations to be correct - what's relevant is that his observations are illegal.

Openbaar Ministerie, The Netherland, January 2010

 

In its death throes, Eutopia has decided to smash the lights of liberty.

Mark Steyn, commenting on the Wilders trial, The International Free Press Society, 19.01.2010

 

This is the trend worldwide. The white race will in the long term become extinct. . . . Apparently we are happy with this development.

Jozef Ritzen, Dutch Minister of Education, Culture, and Science, quoted in Takimag

 

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

 

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

Susan Sontag, Partisan Review, Winter 1967, p. 57.

 

There is no single human being who has ever done more to destroy the white race than Adolf Hitler.

Fjordman, the Brussels Journal, 27.04.2009

 

Germany’s downward spiral in population is no longer reversible. The birthrate has dropped so low that immigration numbers cannot compensate. The fall in the population can no longer be stopped.

Vice-president Walter Rademacher, the Federal Statistics Office

 

This is not a legitimate area of research.

R. Brian Ferguson, Rutgers University, voicing his opinion about research efforts to use "genetics to study behavioral differences among people". Los Angeles Times, 18.04.2009

 

Therefore insensitivity for the existing societal power relationships is crucial for the interpretation of the limits of free expression.

EU's Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) - part of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, in Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech: some points for consideration, December 2008, quoted in Standpoint Magazine

 

The most important blank spot exists now [sic] in deconstructing the majority so thoroughly that it can never be called the majority again

Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Culcom, 27.08.2008

 

Why am I posting so much about science? First, I do think it is fair to say that the Right has a “Science Problem.” But secondly, my own conservatism is grounded and framed in the scientific understanding of human nature, at least to the extent we understand it. Any conservatism which is empirical and takes the idea of a human nature seriously must ultimately assimilate the most recent findings of the evolutionary & behavioral sciences.

Razib Khan, Secular Right, 01.12.2008

 

We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet to solve this problem.…I’m saying to you that we need to solve this problem because they are going to kill us.…The problem on the planet is white people.

Dr. Kamau Kambon, former North Carolina State visiting professor of African Studies, speaking at Howard University, quoted at Gates of Vienna

 

This amounts to saying that meeting with potentially violent groups, as long as they are non-white, is OK, but meeting with non-violent groups who work peacefully within the democratic system is not OK if they stand up for their rights and happen to be white. I do not accept this double standard and refuse to submit to it.

Fjordman, Gates of Vienna, 30.10.2008

 

Indeed, no true leftist – whether Marxist, cultural Marxist, Christian social penitent, New York liberal or Amsterdam libertine -- will ever let reality interfere with a good theory. [...] Maybe Benjamin Franklin was right when he said that we must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately.

Takuan Seiyo, The Brussels Journal, 28.10.2008

 

What the bill will not do: ... First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same.... Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset.... Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia.... In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think.... The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.

United States Senator Ted Kennedy, during debate on the Senate floor, speaking of the effects of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, D.C., Feb. 10, 1965. pp. 1-3).

 

[Certain people think] that Europeans must prove that we are 100% "ideologically pure" before we should be granted the right to fight for our continued existence. Imagine if a house is on fire. The fire brigade has just arrived to put out the fire, but the neighbor won't allow them to use the local water because he fears it may be impure. He will only accept that they use holy water - distilled holy water - and only if it has been blessed by a lesbian priest who supports voting rights for illegal immigrants. Since the firefighters don't have this available, the house burns down, but the neighbor takes comfort in knowing that at least the remaining ash is ideologically pure.

Fjordman, Atlas Shrugs, 23.09.2008

 

If there’s one thing the evolutionary process cannot produce, it is equality.

Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele in Race - the reality of human differences

 

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Multicultural societies – respect for Muslims and Islam

 

The current European immigration and integration policy is profoundly disrespectful of both Muslims and Islam, because it is built on the tacit assumption that the Muslims will become like us. One claims to have respect for Islam and for Muslims, but one also expects Muslims to give up their orthodox faith when they come here. At the same time one is assuming that Islam will be reformed and modernized as soon as the Muslims become integrated and understand and appreciate how superior our Western culture is compared to their own. This is cultural shauvinism and arrogance indeed! The unspoken premise for this scenario is that Western socities are superior to Islam. Read more.

 

 
Threats against democracy and human rights

 

Human rights and democracy are under pressure. One threat comes from the Western world, in the form of lack of or dishonest thinking. There exists a peculiar Western "tolerance" which is so "tolerant" that it even tolerates totalitarian or anti-democratic ideologies. A tacit assumption underlying such an attitude is that all cultures, world views, and religions are really equally good. As a consequence of this assumption one is cut off from the possibility of critically examining the above mentioned ideologies. Read more.