Editing J. Philippe Rushton (section)

===Race and intelligence===
Rushton spent much of his career arguing that average [[Intelligence quotient|IQ]] differences between racial groups are due to genetic causes, a view that was controversial at the time and is now broadly rejected by the scientific consensus.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Ceci|first1=Stephen|last2=Williams|first2=Wendy M.|date=1 February 2009|title=Should scientists study race and IQ? YES: The scientific truth must be pursued|journal=Nature|volume=457|issue=7231|pages=788–789|doi=10.1038/457788a|pmid=19212385|bibcode=2009Natur.457..788C |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=22 May 2017|title=Intelligence research should not be held back by its past|journal=Nature|volume=545|issue=7655|pages=385–386|bibcode=2017Natur.545R.385.|doi=10.1038/nature.2017.22021|pmid=28541341|doi-access=free}}</ref> His research areas included studying brain size and the effects of racial admixture.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Rushton |first1=J. P. |last2=Jensen |title=Thirty years of research on race differences in cognitive ability |journal=Psychology, Public Policy, and Law |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=235 |year=2005 |doi=10.1037/1076-8971.11.2.235 |url=http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/PPPL1.pdf |first2=A. R. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722020238/http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/PPPL1.pdf |archive-date=2012-07-22 |citeseerx=10.1.1.186.102 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Rushton | first1 = J. Philippe | last2 = Jensen | first2 = Arthur R. | doi = 10.2174/1874350101003010009 | title = Race and IQ: A Theory-Based Review of the Research in Richard Nisbett's Intelligence and How to Get It | journal = The Open Psychology Journal| volume = 3 | pages = 9–35 | year = 2010 | doi-access = free }}</ref>

In a 2020 statement, his former department at the University of Western Ontario stated: "Rushton's works linking race and intelligence are based on an incorrect assumption that fuels systemic racism, the notion that racialized groups are concordant with patterns of human ancestry and genetic population structure."<ref name=":0" /> Furthermore, they stated that Rushton's work on the topic is "characterized by a complete misunderstanding of population genetic measures, including fundamental misconceptions about the nature of heritability."<ref name=":0" />