Richard Lynn, ""Racial and ethnic differences in psychoopathic personality"

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Mon Jan 28 08:49:25 PST 2002


On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Scott wrote:


> Ah, I see why. Lynn is on the Editorial board. And it's funded by the "H.
> J. Eysenck Memorial Fund." Eysenck was several distinct kinds of nutter at
> once: racist, parapsychologist, eugenics freak, Big on measured general
> intelligence, right-wing raving elitist, and he thought psychotherapy could
> cure cancer, and I won't even get into his research on smoking.
>

A fairly apt description of Eysenck but for the bit about psychotherapy: He is famous in psychology for arguing that any apparent effectiveness of "talk" therapies is in fact due to spontaneous remission of symptoms. He didn't think psychotherapy could cure anything, much less cancer.

Miles



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