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词条 London Conference on Intelligence
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  1. UCL investigation

  2. Attendees

  3. References

  4. External links

The London Conference on Intelligence (LCI) is an invitation-only conference for research on controversial aspects of human intelligence, including race and intelligence and eugenics. Founded in 2014, it was secretly held in the Pearson Building at University College London (UCL) in London, England, on four separate occasions.[1] It was hosted by Dr. James Thompson, an honorary UCL senior lecturer in psychology.[2] The existence of the conference, as well as the names of some of the attendees, was revealed by the London Student on January 10, 2018.[3] In a statement released in response to news of the conference, UCL said that it had been unaware that the conference had occurred on its campus, and that the speakers there "were not approved or endorsed by UCL". Their statement also said that "We are an institution that is committed to free speech but also to combatting racism and sexism in all forms." The UCL also announced that it would investigate whether the organizers breached the University's as well as the circumstances that led to awarding of an honorary senior lectureship to Thompson.[4]

LCI was hosted in the city of Skanderborg, Denmark, in May 2018. A local news team had the opportunity to interview Helmuth Nyborg, where he made the statement: "We don't trust the media", as a reason why he alone would be interviewed.[5]

UCL investigation

The LCI was investigated in January 2018 following the 2017 attendance of Toby Young (who was then involved in controversy over his past tweets and tenure on the board of the government-funded Office for Students) at these conferences, as well as their alleged eugenicist content, neo-Nazi links and clandestine nature.[6][7] The Guardian reported that "Speakers included white supremacists and a researcher who has previously advocated child rape."[8] Young later resigned over the controversy.[9]

Thompson hosted the event without informing senior university officials. In response to an investigation by London Student revealing that the conference had taken place on UCL's campus, UCL announced it would be investigating how a conference on eugenics was able to occur on their campus without the university's knowledge. A UCL spokesperson told the Guardian that "UCL is investigating a potential breach of its room bookings process for events"; UCL also revoked Thompson's approval to organize future conferences.[10][7] The UCL issued a press release saying that it would investigate the circumstances that led to awarding of an honorary senior lectureship to Thompson, and reaffirmed that it is committed to combating racism. UCL has now cut all ties with Thompson and taken steps to avoid the possibility of such events taking place without the University's knowledge.[8][10]

In response to the controversy, the journal Intelligence published a correspondence defending the conference authored by 15 of its attendees. The editorial disputed that the LCI was a eugenics conference, saying that, among the 75 presentations given there over four years, only two had been on the topic of eugenics.[11] One of the authors of the editorial, psychologist Aurelio José Figueredo, was subsequently reported to be the only academic receiving funding from the Pioneer Fund, which is associated with scientific racism and eugenics. Figueredo told the Associated Press that the conference was not about eugenics, and that its overall theme could not be represented "by a few presentations".[12]

Attendees

Notable attendees of at least one of the conferences include:

  • Blogger Emil Kirkegaard who, according to The Guardian, "has written supportively about pedophiles being allowed to have 'sex with a sleeping child'".[13][14][15]
  • Edward Dutton[11]
  • Aurelio Figueredo[11]
  • Paul Irwing[11]
  • Richard Lynn, a British psychologist, who attended the 2017 conference.[16]
  • Gerhard Meisenberg[11]
  • Edward M. Miller[11]
  • Jan te Nijenhuis[11]
  • Helmuth Nyborg, a Danish psychologist, who attended in 2015 and 2016.[17]
  • Heiner Rindermann[11]
  • Toby Young, a British journalist, who also attended the 2017 conference.[13]
  • Noah Carl, then an academic at the University of Oxford.[18]

References

1. ^{{Cite news |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucl-launches-investigation-secret-eugenics-conference |title=UCL launches investigation into secret eugenics conference |date=2018-01-11 |work=Times Higher Education |access-date=2018-05-15}}
2. ^{{Cite journal |last=Science |first=American Association for the Advancement of |date=2018-01-19 |title=News at a glance |url=http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6373/256 |journal=Science |language=en |volume=359 |issue=6373 |pages=256–257 |doi=10.1126/science.359.6373.256 |issn=0036-8075 |pmid=29348213}}
3. ^{{Cite news |url=https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/51323/title/Secret-Eugenics-Conference-Uncovered-at-University-College-London/ |title=Secret Eugenics Conference Uncovered at University College London |last=Daley |first=Jim |date=2018-01-12 |work=The Scientist |access-date=2018-05-15}}
4. ^{{Cite press release |title=UCL statement on the London Conference on Intelligence |date=2018-01-10 |url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0118/100118-UCL-statement-on-London-conference-on-intelligence |access-date=2018-05-15 |website=www.ucl.ac.uk}}
5. ^{{Cite news|url=https://hsfo.dk/oestjylland/Bandlyst-fra-universiteterne-Hemmelig-forskergruppe-moedes-i-Skanderborg/artikel/168645|title=Bandlyst fra universiteterne: Hemmelig forskergruppe mødes i Skanderborg|date=2018-05-14|access-date=2018-05-17|language=da}}
6. ^{{cite news |last1=Bennett |first1=Rosemary |title=University College London under fire over its conferences on 'eugenics' |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/university-college-london-under-fire-over-its-conferences-on-eugenics-qq5z9vvgk |accessdate=14 October 2018 |work=The Times |date=11 January 2018 |subscription=y}}
7. ^1 {{cite news |last1=Van Der Merwe |first1=Ben |title=Exposed: London eugenics conference's neo-Nazi links |url=http://londonstudent.coop/exposed-london-eugenics-conferences-neo-nazi-links/ |accessdate=8 September 2018 |work=London Student}}
8. ^1 {{cite news |last1=Fazackerley |first1=Anna |title=UCL launches inquiry into historical links with eugenics |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/dec/06/ucl-launches-inquiry-into-historical-links-with-eugenics |accessdate=17 January 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=6 December 2018}}
9. ^{{cite news |last1=Adams |first1=Richard |title=Toby Young quits New Schools Network, citing media pressure |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/23/toby-young-quits-new-schools-network-citing-media-pressure |accessdate=14 October 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=23 March 2018}}
10. ^{{Cite press release |title=UCL statement on the London Conference on Intelligence |date=2018-01-10 |url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0118/100118-UCL-statement-on-London-conference-on-intelligence |language=en |access-date=2018-05-15 |website=www.ucl.ac.uk}}
11. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{Cite journal |last=Woodley of Menie |first=Michael A. |last2=Dutton |first2=Edward |last3=Figueredo |first3=Aurelio-José |last4=Carl |first4=Noah |last5=Debes |first5=Fróði |last6=Hertler |first6=Steven |last7=Irwing |first7=Paul |last8=Kura |first8=Kenya |last9=Lynn |first9=Richard |date=July 2018 |title=Communicating intelligence research: Media misrepresentation, the Gould Effect, and unexpected forces |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0160289618300837 |journal=Intelligence |doi=10.1016/j.intell.2018.04.002 |issn=0160-2896}}
12. ^{{Cite news |url=https://apnews.com/a9791e6174374437b3bbe17af8b76215 |title=APNewsBreak: University accepted $458K from eugenics fund |last=Kunzelman |first=Michael |date=2018-08-25 |work=AP News |access-date=2018-09-03}}
13. ^1 2 {{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/10/ucl-to-investigate-secret-eugenics-conference-held-on-campus |title=UCL to investigate eugenics conference secretly held on campus |last=Rawlinson |first=Kevin |date=2018-01-11 |work=The Guardian |access-date=2018-05-15 |last2=Adams |first2=Richard}}
14. ^{{cite news |last1=van der Merwe |first1=Ben |title=It might be a pseudo science, but students take the threat of eugenics seriously |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/education/2018/02/it-might-be-pseudo-science-students-take-threat-eugenics-seriously |accessdate=21 October 2018 |work=New Statesman |date=19 February 2018}}
15. ^{{cite news |last1=Yorke |first1=Harry |title=UCL launches 'eugenics' probe after it emerges academic held controversial conference for three years on campus |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/01/10/ucl-launches-eugenics-probe-emerges-academic-held-controversial/ |accessdate=21 October 2018 |work=The Telegraph |date=10 January 2018}}
16. ^{{Cite news |url=http://www.newsweek.com/white-supremacists-eugenics-conference-london-778581 |title=White supremacists held secret eugenics conference at prominent London university for years |date=2018-01-11 |work=Newsweek |access-date=2018-05-15 |language=en}}
17. ^{{Cite news |url=https://londonstudent.coop/exposed-london-eugenics-conferences-neo-nazi-links/ |title=Exposed: London’s eugenics conference and its neo-Nazi links |date=2018-01-10 |work=The London Student |access-date=2018-08-02 |language=en-GB}}
18. ^{{cite web |last1=Van Der Merwe |first1=Ben |title=It might be a pseudo science, but students take the threat of eugenics seriously |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/education/2018/02/it-might-be-pseudo-science-students-take-threat-eugenics-seriously |accessdate=7 December 2018}}

External links

  • [https://londonstudent.coop/exposed-london-eugenics-conferences-neo-nazi-links/ Exposed: London’s eugenics conference and its neo-Nazi links]
  • UCL statement on London Conference on Intelligence

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