Edward Dutton’s pseudo-academia: racism & fake credentials

There’s a Youtube channel called “Prof. Edward Dutton: The Jolly Heretic”. If you look at the video titles you’ll find they’re fixated on IQ, fertility, genetics, and something he calls “spiteful mutants”. He cites numerous scholarly papers, including many of his own publications. However, he is a fraud. This video explains Dutton is not a professor, and he is attempting to defend racism with pseudo-academia.


Bakhiet, Salaheldin Farah Attallah, Edward Dutton, Khalil Yousif Ali Ashaer, Yossry Ahmed Sayed Essa, Tahani Abdulrahman Muhammad Blahmar, Sultan Mohammed Hakami, and Guy Madison. “Understanding the Simber Effect: Why Is the Age-Dependent Increase in Children’s Cognitive Ability Smaller in Arab Countries than in Britain?” Personality and Individual Differences 122 (2018): 38–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.10.002.

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Benjamin A Boyce. “The Decline & Fall of General Intelligence | with Edward Dutton.” YouTube, 24 March 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJMmPLHmiu0.

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———. “Should Philosophers Censor Kevin MacDonald?” Quillette, 13 January 2022. https://quillette.com/2022/01/13/philosophers-want-to-censor-kevin-macdonald/.

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Dutton, Edward. “Edward Dutton | Evolutionary Psychologist.” The Jolly Heretic, 16 January 2023. https://edwarddutton.com/.

———. “Ethnic Differences in Achievement in Darts.” Mankind Quarterly 56 (2015): 51–69. https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2015.56.1.4.

———. “It’s Official: Leftist Researchers Lie. That’s Why Universities Are Doomed | Articles.” VDARE, 12 January 2023. https://vdare.com/articles/it-s-official-leftist-researchers-lie-that-s-why-universities-are-doomed.

Dutton, Edward, David Becker, and Vladimir Shibaev. “Why Do Finns, Estonians and Finno-Ugric Peoples in Russia Have Such High Intelligence?” Mankind Quarterly 61.4 (2021): art. 12, n.p. https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2021.61.4.12, http://mankindquarterly.org/archive/issue/61-4/12.

Dutton, Edward, and Emil O. W. Kirkegaard. “Blue Hair and the Blues: Dying Your Hair Unnatural Colours Is Associated with Depression” 6 (2022).

Dutton, Edward, and Richard Lynn. “Cheating in Sport and Race Differences in Psychopathic Personality.” The Mankind Quarterly 55 (2015). https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2015.55.4.3.

———. “Ethnic Differences in Success in Cricket.” Mankind Quarterly 55 (2015): 226–41. https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2015.55.3.4.

Dutton, Edward, and Guy Madison. “Gender Dysphoria and Transgender Identity Is Associated with Physiological and Psychological Masculinization: A Theoretical Integration of Findings, Supported by Systematic Reviews.” Sex Res Soc Policy 18.3 (2021): 788–99. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-020-00489-z.

———. “Why Do Middle-Class Couples of European Descent Adopt Children from Africa and Asia? Some Support for the Differential K Model.” Personality and Individual Differences 130 (2018): 156–60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.04.008.

Dutton, Edward, Helmuth Nyborg, and Emil O. W. Kirkegaard. “Europeans Have Larger Testes than Sub-Saharan Africans but Lower Testosterone Levels.” The Mankind Quarterly 62 (2022). https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2022.62.3.4.

Dutton, Edward, and Richard A. Stretch. “Racial Differences in Sexual Dimorphism as an Explanation for Differences in Olympic Track and Field Achievement.” Mankind Quarterly 55.1 (2014): art. 3, n.p. https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2014.55.1.3, http://mankindquarterly.org/archive/issue/55-1/3.

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van der Linden, Dimitri, Curtis S. Dunkel, and Edward Dutton. “The General Factor of Personality (GFP) Is Associated with Higher Salary, Having a Leadership Position, and Working in a Social Job.” Acta Psychologica 234 (2023): 103847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103847.

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———. “‘The Fool Says in His Heart That Atheists Are Mutants’ | Psychology Today.” Psychology Today, 17 March 2018. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody-else/201803/the-fool-says-in-his-heart-atheists-are-mutants.

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Prof. Edward Dutton: The Jolly Heretic. “What Kind of People Dye Their Hair Unnatural Colours?” YouTube, 29 April 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7DXrgG5U6k.

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