Richard Lynn, RIP—93 years of telling the truth | Blog posts

Psychologist/researcher Richard Lynn he just died at the age of 93.

Rest in peace Professor Richard Lynn, who died peacefully on 17 July 2023 aged 93: discoverer of the Flynn effect, high IQ from North East Asia; chased by the ‘I Love Science’-tists. My life would be very different today if I hadn’t considered myself a protégé. pic.twitter.com/eilhkBCYbX

— Edward Dutton (@jollyheretic) July 20, 2023

He was famous and infamous for his research on race and IQ, because when the answers to scientific questions weren’t politically correct, he published them anyway, instead of trying to explain them away or bury them for years because Robert D. Putnam did when he uncovered diversity is no strength

Lynn posted four articles with us:

We’ve also written a lot about his career.

See, since 2014, John Derbyshire on Richard Lynn at 80: The Festschrift and that of Helmuth Nyborg “He Kept the Faith”: A Conversation with Richard Lynn (second part, third part)

In 2009 I wrote Richard Lynn and the people who don’t want to knowabout the urge to delete wrong answers.

In that article I said

Richard Lynn’s point Racial differences, immigration and the twilight of European peoples is that IQ has consequences. The immigration of people with a low IQ in high IQ societies it changes these societies for the worse. And what Steve Sailer has been writing about Merger of Minority Mortgages is that it was caused by assuming that minority borrowers were smart enough to decide for themselves that they could repay those mortgages. Certainly no lender could have issued an internal memo saying they might not have been.

And the accusation that the only people who study this stuff are “cryptoracists with an ax to grind”… may be caused by the fact that the scientists who study this you will always find the same depressing answer.

Lynn was for many years a professor at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. In his autobiography, Memoirs of a Dissident Psychologist, he explained that while he was at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in the Republic of Ireland, made the decision to take a stand in the north after making some potentially unpopular discoveries about irish iq, although it moves from the south to Northern Ireland in 1971 it went from the pan to the fire.

In 2018, when Lynn was 88, I wrote Richard Lynn stripped of emeritus status for saying the very things that made him a professor in the first place, when the University of Ulster was shocked, shocked to discover that he had “argued that East Asians have a higher average IQ than Europeans and that men have a higher average IQ than women.”

In fact, he had been arguing this since the 1970s, before he was a professor there, so presumably this was the kind of research that made him a professor in the first place.

For more on Lynn’s research, see Lance Welton’s THE INTELLIGENCE OF NATIONS: Lynn and Becker Crush CultMarx Race Deniers But Too Crazy To Notice i Beyond THE BELL CURVE: CAREER DIFFERENCES IN PSYCHOPATHIC PERSONALITY by Richard Lynn.

The 47 years between his hiring and being “stripped of emeritus status” had changed a lot politically, but the facts remain the facts. His work will live on.