Editing J. Philippe Rushton (section)

===Press coverage===
Rushton prompted controversy for years, attracting coverage from the press as well as comments and criticism by scientists of his books and journal articles.

First-year psychology students who took Rushton's classes said that he had conducted a survey of students' sexual habits in 1988, asking "such questions as how large their penises are, how many sex partners they have had, and how far they can ejaculate".<ref name="NYB-3-23-95">[[Charles Lane (journalist)|Charles Lane]], [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1965 Response to Daniel R. Vining, Jr.], ''[[New York Review of Books]]'', Vol. 42, Number 5, March 23, 1995</ref> First-year psychology students at the [[University of Western Ontario]] are required "to participate in approved surveys as a condition of their studies. If they choose not to, they must write one research paper. Also, many students feel subtle pressure to participate in order not to offend professors who may later be grading their work. However, if a study is not approved, these requirements do not apply at all."<ref name="NYB-3-23-95"/> For his failing to tell students they had the option not to participate in his studies without incurring additional work, the university barred Rushton for two years from using students as research subjects. He had tenure at UWO.<ref name="NYB-3-23-95"/>

In a 2005 ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'' article, Rushton stated that the public perceives disproportionately negative effects caused by black residents "in every bloody city in Canada where you have black
people."<ref name=Duffy>[http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.org.mensa/2005-10/msg00010.html Andrew Duffy, "Rushton Revisited"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304203935/http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.org.mensa/2005-10/msg00010.html |date=2016-03-04 }}, ''The [[Ottawa Citizen]]''. Ottawa: Oct 1, 2005. pg. A.1.</ref> In the same article, Rushton suggested that equalizing outcomes across groups was "impossible". The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] called the piece "yet another attack" by Rushton, and it criticized those who published his work and that of other "race scientists".<ref name="splcenter.org">[http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=580 "Into the Mainstream: Academic Racists' Work Inching Toward Legitimacy"], Southern Poverty Law Center</ref>