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West Virginia Students Protest Controversial Psychologist

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About 50 West Virginia students, many from the Black Student Union, protested a lecture by the controversial psychologist J. Philippe Rushton, who has developed an intelligence hierarchy based on race, the Daily Athenaeum reports. In his published work "Race, Evolution, and Behavior," the University of Western Ontario professor "places Asians on the superior end of a spectrum, blacks on the inferior end, and Caucasians between the two," according to the paper.

Rushton's lecture mostly referenced his research into altruism, but the protest focused primarily on his more controversial topics. "You call it science, we call it racism," read one sign. And as one student said, "You can say what you have to say. Our whole goal is for people to not be infused with his ignorance."

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Steve Wagner and Jesse Jackson hopes that people can be bullied into believing that snow is black and milk is green. It may be true that "In the eyes of God, men are created equal", however, just like in the animal world, some breeds of animal are brighter than other animals. In 2005, MRI research demonstrated that Asians have an average of 1 cubic inch more brain mass than Whites, while Whites had an average of just 5 inches more brain mass than Blacks. Yes, brain size does matter! Zoologists teach that the proportion of brain size to body size increases so that a grasshopper is more intelligent than an ant and a mouse is more intelligent than a worm, etc..
Blacks have been taught to attack whatever does not fit their racist teaching of Jesse Jackson.

Perry Kelly of WA 10:22PM December 07, 2009

"Our whole goal is for people to not be infused with his ignorance."
A truly ironic statement given the likelihood that the protestors have never read a single of Professor Rushton's peer reviewed articles.
Rushton's Law of Three' the amazingly reliable rule is that any important difference (be it physical, mental, developmental, temperamental,or behavioral) that can be found between Asians and Europeans, a similar relationship will most likely be found between Europeans and Africans. Regardless of the correctness of Rushton's theory for explaining this consistent relationship [4], the data he uses to verify the relationship itself is, to quote Frank Miele of Skeptic Magazine, "...replicable".

M Steiner of CA 11:59PM November 15, 2009

Dear All,
"Dr." Rushton is engaging in the spread of eugenics. The derivation of the word "eugenics" is "good breeding." Look it up in the dictionary or Google it. Eugenics was a completely faulty "science" that was use as the basis of the Nazi Holocaust, the segregation movement in the U.S. and other low points in the history of human culture. It was used to de-humanize (cause the perception that they were less than human) certain groups of people, such as ethnic groups, mental retarded people, etc. so that they could be exterminated. Rushton is to be quietly ignored. It is the basis of racism. For more data on eugenics, download the pdf "Creating Racism: Psychiatry's Betrayal" at http://www.cchr.org/#/publications/pamphlets

Steve Wagner of CA 10:52PM March 13, 2009

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