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Edward Dutton
BornEdward Croft Dutton
1980
London, England
🏳️ CitizenshipBritish
💼 Occupation
Author
👶 Children2
🌐 Websitehttps://edwarddutton.com

Edward Croft Dutton (born 1980) is a British academic.[1] He has written controversial racialist articles for fringe far-right journals such as Mankind Quarterly and OpenPsych.[2][3]

Career[edit]

Dutton has a degree in Theology from Durham University and a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Aberdeen.[4]

As of 2012, Dutton was a religious anthropologist employed as a teacher at the University of Oulu in Finland and was also reported to be a freelance editor.[5] By 2016, he was a Docent in anthropology at the same university and had a Finnish wife and two children.[6][7] In September 2016, Oulu University started an investigation into an article by Dutton and Richard Lynn, "A negative Flynn effect in Finland, 1997–2009", published in Intelligence in 2013.[8] In an announcement made by the university in June 2017, Dutton was found to have conducted scientific misconduct due to plagiarism.[9] 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.[10] 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.[9]

In 2018, Dutton published a study of the personal life of the controversial Canadian psychologist J. Philippe Rushton, analysing an autobiographical manuscript written by Rushton and speaking to dozens of people who had known him. He said of this "I was… instinctively sympathetic to him in a way that a lot of his critics aren’t… I was rather less sure he was wrong."[11]

Dutton was previously editor-in-chief of the pseudoscientific[12][13] racist[14][15][16][17] journal Mankind Quarterly.[18] As of 2021, he was a member of its Advisory Board.[19] Some of the books Dutton has authored have been published by Washington Summit Publishers operated by neo-Nazi Richard B. Spencer.[3][20][21] He is currently listed as an editor of the Radix Journal, which was also founded by Spencer.[22]

In May 2021, Dutton was reported to be teaching evolutionary psychology at Asbiro University in Poland,[23] a privately-run business school in Łódź, Poland.[21]

Dutton operates a Youtube channel called "Prof. Edward Dutton: The Jolly Heretic."[24]

Views[edit]

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.[25][26] 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.[27][28]

Dutton wrote in 2014 "… my research finds that it is not only fervent religiousness that is associated with low intelligence, but any fervent advocacy of an ideology - whether it is Marxism, multiculturalism, or conservative nationalism. Indeed, I would argue that ideologies are, in many ways, replacement religions."[29]

In December 2017, an article by Dutton in Evolutionary Psychological Science, "The Mutant Says in His Heart, There Is No God" concluded that academics are overwhelmingly atheist, but that atheists are genetic mutants, most of whom would not have been born if the world had not broken free of pre-industrial conditions of Darwinian selection. It also found that atheists are more likely to be left handed than others.[30]

Dutton's 2018 book At Our Wits' End, coauthored with Michael Woodley, was reviewed by Egyptology student Julien Delhez for the journal Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences in 2020. Delhez described the book's 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]".[31]

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.[32] 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.[33]

In 2018, Dutton has attended the London Conference on Intelligence, which is associated with eugenics,[33][34]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.[35]

In 2019, Dutton gave a speech for the white nationalist group Patriotic Alternative operated by neo-Nazi Mark Collett.[20] Dutton has appeared as a guest on the white nationalist[36] podcast Red Ice.[37][38] In November 2019, Dutton spoke at the far-right Scandza Forum, in Oslo.[39][40]

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.[41][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 higher intelligence, according to his theories in his book How to Judge People by What They Look Like. According to Aidan Bridgeman, a University of Aberdeen student writing in the Gaudie, Dutton has 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.[3]

Personal life[edit]

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, in 2017 he was living in Oulu, Finland, and was married to a Finnish woman with whom he had two children.[6]

Works[edit]

Dutton has written 16 books,[42] as well as chapters in books The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture[43] and the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science.[44]

Books

Selected journal articles

References[edit]

  1. Zúquete, J. P. (2020). "Para além do populismo: a defesa da identidade branca na Europa Ocidental". In Pinto, A. C., Gentile, F. (Eds.), Populismo - Teorias e caso, pp. 57-75. Fortaleza, CE : Edmeta; pages 63-64 (English translation):
    Since its formation, this forum has brought together a variety of American Alt-Right figures - for example, white nationalist intellectual leaders such as Greg Johnson (Counter-Currents co-founder), Jared Taylor (founder of American Renaissance) and retired social psychologist Kevin MacDonald - as well as European HBD researchers such as the English academic (Ph.D. in Theology) Vlogger Edward Dutton and the Danish academic Helmuth Nyborg, Croatian-American pro-white identity writer Tomislav Sunic, and Scottish vlogger Colin Robertson (aka Millennial Woes), or political activists like Mark Collett, a former British National Party figure and 2019 founder of Patriotic Alternative, who became a leading white nationalist activist group in Britain.
  2. Merwe, Ben van der. (2019). "The Fringe & The Far Right: Racist Pseudoscience Conference in Norway". Hopenothate.org.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Bridgeman, Aiden. (2021). "From Aberdeen PhD to White Supremacist". The Gaudie. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  4. "Culture Shock and Multiculturalism". Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Archived from the original on 25 October 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  5. Perttula, Camilla (4 June 2012). "Edward Dutton - Englishman in Oulu". City (in Finnish). Retrieved 1 July 2019.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Ed Dutton". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Henwood, Jo (25 February 2016). "Author pens book about Chester man who changed Henry VIII's pants". Cheshire Live. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  8. 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.
  9. 9.0 9.1 "Rehtorin päätös tutkimuseettisessä asiassa". www.oulu.fi (in suomi). 16 June 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  10. "Oulun yliopiston dosentti syyllistyi plagiointiin – kiistää tekonsa tarkoituksellisuuden". Aamulehti (in Finnish). 16 June 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2019.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  11. Bieman, Jennifer (29 June 2018). "Philippe Rushton: New book digs into controversial race researcher's personal life". London Free Press.
  12. Saini, Angela (July 29, 2019) "The Internet Is a Cesspool of Racist Pseudoscience" Scientific American
  13. Staff (ndg) "The Disturbing Resilience of Scientific Racism" Smithsonian
  14. Gresson, Aaron; Kincheloe, Joe L.; Steinberg, Shirley R., eds. (14 March 1997). Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined (1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.). St. Martin's Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-312-17228-2. Search this book on
  15. Ibrahim G. Aoudé, The ethnic studies story: politics and social movements in Hawaiʻi, University of Hawaii Press, 1999, p. 111.
  16. Kenneth Leech, Race, Church Publishing, Inc., 2005, p. 14.
  17. William H. Tucker, The funding of scientific racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund, University of Illinois Press, 2002, p. 2.
  18. Editorial Panel, Mankind Quarterly, archived from the original on 20 October 2019, retrieved 8 May 2020
  19. "Editorial Panel". Mankindquarterly.org. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  20. 20.0 20.1 Murdoch, Simon. (2020). "Patriotic Alternative: Uniting the Fascist Right?". Hopenothate.org.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  21. 21.0 21.1 "State of Hate 2021". Hope not Hate. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  22. "About". Radix Journal. Archived from the original on April 27, 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  23. Taylor, Jared (16 May 2021). "Opinion: Making Sense of Race". prescottenews.com.
  24. "Prof. Edward Dutton: The Jolly Heretic - YouTube". YouTube.
  25. Flaherty, Colleen (12 February 2014). "Paper says physical scientists smarter and less religious than social scientists". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  26. 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.
  27. HT. "Study: Why so few Nobel science prizes in Finland?". Helsinki Times. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  28. 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.
  29. Dutton, Edward (30 May 2014). "Why atheists are brighter than Christians". The Church Times. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  30. Rudgard, Olivia (21 December 2017) "Atheists more likely to be left handed, study finds", Daily Telegraph, December 21, 2017
  31. 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. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  32. 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. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  33. 33.0 33.1 Schulson, Michael (27 June 2018). "Kevin MacDonald and the Elevation of Anti-Semitic Pseudoscience". Undark. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  34. Bennett, Rosemary (11 January 2018). "University College London under fire over its conferences on 'eugenics'". The Times. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  35. 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. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  36. "McInnes, Molyneux, and 4chan: Investigating pathways to the alt-right". Southern Poverty Law Center. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  37. "We Are Getting Dumber and Dumber, Civilization Will Collapse". Red Ice. 27 February 2019.
  38. "Race Differences in Ethnocentrism". Red Ice. 14 June 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  39. Færseth, John (12 November 2019). "Scandza Forum: Raseteorier, jødekonspirasjoner og antimodernitet". Fri Tanke (in norsk). Norwegian Humanist Association. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  40. Stubley, Peter (3 November 2019). "US white supremacist arrested hours before far-right conference in Norway". The Independent. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  41. "The Traditional Britain Conference 2019, October 19th | Traditional Britain Group".
  42. "Books". EdwardDutton.com. Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  43. Lyden, John; Mazur, Eric Michael (2015). The Routledge companion to religion and popular culture. New York : Routledge, c 2019. ISBN 9781138322738. Search this book on
  44. Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer. 2021. ISBN 978-3319196497. Search this book on
  45. "Arizona psychologist faces scrutiny for grants from organization founded to support research in eugenics". InsideHigherEd.com. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  46. "British anthropologist on Oulu rape epidemic: Finns 'groomed' to love their abusers". Suomen Uutiset (in suomi). Finns Party. 16 September 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.

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