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 ... such as the work of Cyril Burt, which was proved to be manufactured data.
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities 2010
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From the "scientific" racism of Cyril Burt and his devoted followers today, to creationism and global warming denial, we see mountebanks and snakeoil salesmen of every description attempting to harness science to their broken-down wagons.
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From the "scientific" racism of Cyril Burt and his devoted followers today, to creationism and global warming denial, we see mountebanks and snakeoil salesmen of every description attempting to harness science to their broken-down wagons.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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It's been carried on since by racial theorists like the fraudster Cyril Burt and his disciples Arthur Jensen and Hans Eysenck, and of course Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, whose Bell Curve was an attempt to justify discrimination against Blacks.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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Philippe Rushton, Galton's work was carried on especially by Karl Pearson and Charles Spearman, then by Cyril Burt, and in our time by Raymond Cattell, Hans Eysenck and Arthur Jensen.9 The work of these academics is built explicitly on Galton's theories, but the eugenics ideology spread far beyond this core of true believers.
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The first scientific challenge to academia's traditional assumption that men were smarter than women came in 1912 when pioneering IQ test researcher Cyril Burt announced they scored equally -- on average.
Archive 2005-02-06 Steve Sailer 2005
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The idea attracted many prominent Victorians, and recently such people as Cyril Burt and Julian Huxley.
Jennifer Marohasy 2009
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