Edward Dutton (anthropologist)

Dutton has published work on human intelligence, such as a study he co-authored with Richard Lynn concluding that physical scientists are more intelligent than social scientists.[2][3] He has also studied the average IQ in Finland, and the apparent discrepancy between Finland's high average IQ and its relative lack of Nobel Prize-winning scientists.[4][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 Lynn had removed it. Lynn took responsibility for the incident, however, the university did not investigate Lynn's part because he has 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 has attended the London Conference on Intelligence, which is associated with eugenics,[12][13][14] 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.[15]

Dutton has appeared as a guest on the white supremacist podcast Red Ice.[16] 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 Evolutionary Psychological Science in 2018.[17] 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.[12]

Dutton has published papers on the psychology and genetics of religion, arguing that atheists tend to be more intelligent,[18] and that atheism is associated with mutational load.[19]

On 19 October 2019 Dutton addressed the annual conference of the Traditional Britain Group, where he argued that British inventions and genius placed them at the apex of civilisation.[20] In November 2019, Dutton spoke at the far-right Scandza Forum, in Oslo.[21][22]

As of 2019, Dutton was editor-in-chief of the controversial journal Mankind Quarterly.[23]

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]

Dutton has written 15 books.[24]

• 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)
• 2015, with Richard Lynn: Race and Sport: Evolution and Racial Differences in Sporting Ability (London:Ulster Institute for Social Research)
• 2015, The Ruler of Cheshire: Sir Piers Dutton, Tudor Gangland and the Violent Politics of the Palatine (Northwich: Leonie Press)
• 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)
• 2018, J. Philippe Rushton: A Life History Perspective (Oulu: Thomas Edward Press; self-published) - A biography of J. Philippe Rushton described by Inside Higher Ed as "damning".[25]
• 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) - Discusses the Oulu child sexual exploitation scandal, and uses it to illustrate Dutton's hypothesis that the Finns are societally and genetically unusual.[26]
• 2019, Race Differences in Ethnocentrism (Budapest: Arktos)
• 2019, Churchill’s Headmaster: The 'Sadist' Who Nearly Saved the British Empire (Melbourne: Manticore Press)
• 2020, Islam: An Evolutionary Perspective (Washington Summit Publishers)
• 2020, Making Sense of Race (Washington Summit Publishers)

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