\doc\web\2000\01\rushton.txt Monday, January 31, 2000 Academics take
aim at 'racist science' Outrage over Rushton Andy Lamey National Post


Philippe Rushton's online mass mailing has angered academic organizations
that claim their mailing lists were obtained under false pretenses.


J. Philippe Rushton, the University of Western Ontario psychologist
frequently branded a bigot for his theories of racial hierarchies, is
provoking controversy after sending out what has been described as a "really
disgusting piece of racist science" to academics across Canada and the United
States.


Prof. Rushton's work places characteristics such as brain size, intelligence,
crime rates, sexual frequency and penis size along a racial continuum. "On
average, Orientals are ... less sexually active, have larger brains and
higher IQ scores. Blacks are at the opposite end in each of these areas.
Whites fall in the middle, often close to Orientals," Prof. Rushton writes in
a summary of his views on Amazon.com. Not just environment, but genes and
evolution are the cause of this, he believes.


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