Edward Dutton (author)

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Edward Dutton
Born
Edward Croft Dutton

1980
London, England
CitizenshipBritish
OccupationAuthor
Known forMeeting Jesus at University
Children2
Academic background
EducationCollege of St Hild and St Bede, Durham (B.A., 2002)
University of Aberdeen
(Ph.D., 2005)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Oulu (since 2011)
Websitehttps://edwarddutton.com

Edward Croft Dutton (born 1980) is a British author known for writing controversial racialist articles for fringe far-right journals such as Mankind Quarterly and OpenPsych.[1][2]

Dutton has authored books published at the Washington Summit Publishers operated by neo-Nazi Richard B. Spencer.[2][3][4]

Career[]

Dutton has a degree in Theology from Durham University and a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Aberdeen.[5]

Dutton was previously associated with the University of Oulu in Finland and retains the title of docent at the institution.[6][7] As of 2012, he was employed as a university teacher.[8] In September 2016, Oulu University started an investigation on Dutton's and Lynn's article A negative Flynn effect in Finland, 1997-2009 published in Intelligence in 2013.[9] In an announcement made by the university in June 2017, Dutton was found to have conducted scientific misconduct due to plagiarism.[10] The article discussed IQ tests done on Finnish conscripts, and a table of the IQ test results had been compiled by a student for a master's thesis which was not attributed. Dutton stated in his response that the master's thesis was attributed in his original version but that Lynn had removed the attribution. Although Lynn took responsibility for the incident, the university did not investigate Lynn's part because he had never been associated with the institution.[11] Dutton was not employed by the university at the time of the incident either, but the university investigated it due to its name being used in the study. The university informed Lynn's affiliates about the conclusion and asked Intelligence to issue a correction.[10]

Dutton was previously editor-in-chief of the pseudoscientific journal Mankind Quarterly.[12] He currently sits on their Advisory Board.[13] He is currently an editor of the Radix Journal, founded by American neo-Nazi Richard B. Spencer.[14][non-primary source needed]

Dutton has said on his website that he became a "Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at " in 2020. Asbiro University is a privately-run business school in Łódź, Poland.[4]

Views[]

A 2021 report by the anti-fascist organization Hope not Hate described Dutton as a "proponent of pseudoscientific 'race science'".[4]

Dutton has published work on human intelligence, such as a study he co-authored with Richard Lynn in 2014 which claimed that physical scientists are more intelligent than social scientists.[15][16] He has co-written a paper with Jan te Nijenhuis about the average IQ in Finland, and the apparent discrepancy between Finland's high average IQ and its relative lack of Nobel Prize-winning scientists.[17][18]

His 2018 book At Our Wits' End was reviewed in the journal Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, which described its two major strengths as "its accessibility to the general public and the amount of evidence provided by the authors for a decline in g.h. [heritable general intelligence]" and stated "The evidence they present for a decline in g.h. is now compelling enough that it would be difficult to ask for a higher burden of proof."[19]

Dutton wrote a paper in defense of Kevin MacDonald's Culture of Critique series, which claims that Jewish people are biologically ethnocentric to the detriment of other groups. The work was published in the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science in 2018.[20] The article was defended by the journal's editor, Todd K. Shackelford, as a good fit because it was "risky", while board member Steven Pinker criticized the journal's decisions to publish the paper. Pinker said it contributed nothing new, and was unsupported by evolutionary psychology while also repeating old antisemitic canards.[21]

On 19 October 2019, Dutton addressed the annual conference of the far-right Traditional Britain Group, where he argued that British inventions and genius placed them at the apex of civilisation.[22][non-primary source needed]

Dutton has lectured in favor of ideas about race and intelligence, such as his belief that people with "blonde hair and blues eyes" have a higher intelligence, according to his theories in his book How to Judge People by What They Look Like. He has also stated that Black Lives Matter advocates are mentally ill, that Muslims have a natural tendency to want to commit genocide, and that left-handed people are pedophiles.[2]

Personal life[]

Dutton is distantly related to Sir Piers Dutton, about whom he wrote a biographical book entitled The Ruler of Cheshire: Sir Piers Dutton, Tudor Gangland and the Violent Politics of the Palatine.[7] A British citizen, he lives in Oulu, and is married to a Finnish woman with whom he has two children.[6]

Political tendencies[]

In 2018, Dutton has attended the London Conference on Intelligence, which is associated with eugenics,[21][23][24] and was one of fifteen attendees who contributed to a defense of the conference published in Intelligence in response to media coverage of the event.[25]

In 2019, Dutton gave a speech for the white nationalist group Patriotic Alternative operated by neo-Nazi Mark Collett.[3] Dutton has appeared as a guest on the white nationalist[26] podcast Red Ice.[27][28] In November 2019, Dutton spoke at the far-right Scandza Forum, in Oslo.[29][30]

Works[]

Dutton has written 15 books,[31] as well as chapters in books The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture[32] and the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science.[33]

Books

  • 2008 – Meeting Jesus at University: Rites of Passage and Student Evangelicals (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishers, ISBN 9780754665205)
  • 2009 – The Finnuit: Finnish Culture and the Religion of Uniqueness (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, ISBN 9789630587310)
  • 2012 – Culture Shock and Multiculturalism (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ISBN 9781443835268)
  • 2014 – Religion and Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis (London: Ulster Institute for Social Research), ISBN 9780957391352
  • 2015 – with Richard Lynn: Race and Sport: Evolution and Racial Differences in Sporting Ability (London:Ulster Institute for Social Research), ISBN 978-0993000133
  • 2015 – The Ruler of Cheshire: Sir Piers Dutton, Tudor Gangland and the Violent Politics of the Palatine (Northwich: Leonie Press), ASIN B017E649W2
  • 2016 – with Bruce Charlton: The Genius Famine: Why We Need Geniuses, Why They're Dying Out and Why we Must Rescue Them (Buckingham: University of Buckingham Press, ebook ISBN 9781789551488)
  • 2018 – How to Judge People By What They Look Like (Oulu: Thomas Edward Press; self-published), ISBN 9781977067975
  • 2018 – J. Philippe Rushton: A Life History Perspective (Oulu: Thomas Edward Press; self-published), ISBN 9781983273704 - A biography of J. Philippe Rushton described by Inside Higher Ed as "damning".[34]
  • 2018 – with Michael Woodley: At Our Wits’ End: Why We’re Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future (Exeter: Imprint Academic, ISBN 9781845409852)
  • 2019 – The Silent Rape Epidemic (Oulu: Thomas Edward Press; self-published), ISBN 9781799003649 - Discusses the Oulu child sexual exploitation scandal, and uses it to illustrate Dutton's hypothesis that the Finns are societally and genetically unusual.[35]
  • 2019 – Race Differences in Ethnocentrism (Budapest: Arktos), ISBN 9781912975259
  • 2019 – Churchill’s Headmaster: The 'Sadist' Who Nearly Saved the British Empire (Melbourne: Manticore Press), ISBN 9780648499633
  • 2020 – Islam: An Evolutionary Perspective (Washington Summit Publishers), ASIN B0945HS8VX
  • 2020 – Making Sense of Race (Washington Summit Publishers), ISBN 9781593680701
  • 2021 – Witches, Feminism, and the Fall of the West (Washington Summit Publishers), ISBN 9781593680794

Selected journal articles

References[]

  1. ^ Merwe, Ben van der. (2019). "The Fringe & The Far Right: Racist Pseudoscience Conference in Norway". Hopenothate.org.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Bridgeman, Aiden. (2021). "From Aberdeen PhD to White Supremacist". The Gaudie. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Murdoch, Simon. (2020). "Patriotic Alternative: Uniting the Fascist Right?". Hopenothate.org.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c "State of Hate 2021". Hope not Hate. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Culture Shock and Multiculturalism". Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Archived from the original on 25 October 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b "Ed Dutton". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Henwood, Jo (25 February 2016). "Author pens book about Chester man who changed Henry VIII's pants". Chester Chronicle. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  8. ^ "Edward Dutton - Englishman in Oulu". City (in Finnish). 4 June 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  9. ^ Dutton, Edward; Lynn, Richard (November 2013). "A negative Flynn effect in Finland, 1997–2009". Intelligence. 41 (6): 817–820. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2013.05.008.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b "Rehtorin päätös tutkimuseettisessä asiassa". www.oulu.fi (in Finnish). 16 June 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  11. ^ "Oulun yliopiston dosentti syyllistyi plagiointiin – kiistää tekonsa tarkoituksellisuuden". Aamulehti (in Finnish). 16 June 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  12. ^ Editorial Panel, Mankind Quarterly, archived from the original on 20 October 2019, retrieved 8 May 2020
  13. ^ "Editorial Panel". Mankindquarterly.org. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  14. ^ "About". Radixjournal. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  15. ^ Flaherty, Colleen (12 February 2014). "Paper says physical scientists smarter and less religious than social scientists". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  16. ^ McLain, Sylvia (27 February 2014). "If physicists are smarter than social scientists, are religious people dumb?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  17. ^ HT. "Study: Why so few Nobel science prizes in Finland?". Helsinki Times. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  18. ^ Dutton, Edward; te Nijenhuis, Jan; Roivainen, Eka (September 2014). "Solving the puzzle of why Finns have the highest IQ, but one of the lowest number of Nobel prizes in Europe". Intelligence. 46: 192–202. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2014.06.006.
  19. ^ Delhez, Julien (2020). "Review of At Our Wits' End: Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What It Means for the Future". Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 14 (2): 210–212. doi:10.1037/ebs0000159.
  20. ^ Dutton, Edward (March 2019). "Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy Is the Most Plausible Hypothesis: a Response to Nathan Cofnas' Critical Analysis of Kevin MacDonald's Theory of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth Century Ideological Movements". Evolutionary Psychological Science. 5 (1): 136–142. doi:10.1007/s40806-018-0158-4. ISSN 2198-9885. S2CID 149964951.
  21. ^ Jump up to: a b Schulson, Michael (27 June 2018). "Kevin MacDonald and the Elevation of Anti-Semitic Pseudoscience". Undark. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  22. ^ "The Traditional Britain Conference 2019, October 19th | Traditional Britain Group".
  23. ^ Bennett, Rosemary (11 January 2018). "University College London under fire over its conferences on 'eugenics'". The Times. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  24. ^ Van Der Merwe, Ben. "Exposed: London eugenics conference's neo-Nazi links". London Student. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  25. ^ Woodley of Menie, Michael A.; Dutton, Edward; Figueredo, Aurelio-José; Carl, Noah; Debes, Fróði; Hertler, Steven; Irwing, Paul; Kura, Kenya; Lynn, Richard; Madison, Guy; Meisenberg, Gerhard; Miller, Edward M.; te Nijenhuis, Jan; Nyborg, Helmuth; Rindermann, Heiner (September 2018). "Communicating intelligence research: Media misrepresentation, the Gould Effect, and unexpected forces". Intelligence. 70: 84–87. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2018.04.002.
  26. ^ "McInnes, Molyneux, and 4chan: Investigating pathways to the alt-right". Southern Poverty Law Center. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  27. ^ "We Are Getting Dumber and Dumber, Civilization Will Collapse". Red Ice. 27 February 2019.
  28. ^ "Race Differences in Ethnocentrism". Red Ice. 14 June 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  29. ^ Færseth, John (12 November 2019). "Scandza Forum: Raseteorier, jødekonspirasjoner og antimodernitet". Fri Tanke (in Norwegian). Norwegian Humanist Association. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  30. ^ Stubley, Peter (3 November 2019). "US white supremacist arrested hours before far-right conference in Norway". The Independent. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  31. ^ "Books". EdwardDutton.WordPress.com. 23 January 2013. Archived from the original on 16 August 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  32. ^ The Routledge companion to religion and popular culture. New York : Routledge, c 2019. 2015. ISBN 9781138322738.CS1 maint: location (link)
  33. ^ Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer. 2021. ISBN 3319196499.
  34. ^ "Arizona psychologist faces scrutiny for grants from organization founded to support research in eugenics". InsideHigherEd.com. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  35. ^ "British anthropologist on Oulu rape epidemic: Finns 'groomed' to love their abusers". Suomen Uutiset (in Finnish). Finns Party. 16 September 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.

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