Afrosapiens writes:
“Lynn, Rushton, Jensen and Murray are taken extremely seriously in the field of the study of intelligence”Neuroscience, which is the science of brain function does not take the non-specialists you cite seriously. Actually, it makes no use of their works whatsoever.
But they don’t work in neuroscience. They work in the study of human intelligence, which is a branch of psychology.
Actually, Lynn, Rushton, Murray and Jensen are very well respected in the study of human intelligence, which is a branch of psychology, not neuroscience. The mainstream journal of the field is Intelligence, a rigorous peer reviewed journal that meets the finest standards of science.
This journal regularly publishes the work of Murray, Rushton, Jensen and Lynn and a few other people who think along the same lines. I know that Jim Flynn was personal friends with both Richard Lynn and Philippe Rushton. I have seen a photograph of the three men at a conference with their arms around each other, Flynn in the middle and Rushton and Lynn on either side of him. Flynn doesn’t look uncomfortable at all. He looks like he is with his best friends.
“It is scientific consensus now that genes play a major role in human behavior and intelligence”
No, there is no evidence of it and mainstream neuroscience and genetics only suspect a genetic contribution with not as much certitude as non-specialist psychologists and political scientists.
It is scientific consensus among psychologists.
