Open Psych - pseudo-science journals (John Fuerst, Emil O. W. Kirkegaard)

[Mark of Kri]

Open Psych is a website that publishes two "peer-reviewed" science journals. I highlight "peer-reviewed" because they are not properly reviewed by referees/peers and both journals are pseudo-journals. The authors publishing in these journals are also Neo-Nazis and white nationalists because the journals focus on race, and race & IQ with a strong biased racialist viewpoint.

http://openpsych.net/about/

The journals were set up by Emil OW Kirkegaard (University of Aarhus, Denmark) and Davide Piffer (University of Bologna, Italy and Durham University, England) due to dissatisfaction with journals in the areas of differential psychology and behavioral genetics.

By "dissatisfaction" they mean their pseudo-science on race won't be published in science journals - so they had to set up their own like how creationists do. Emil O. W. Kirkegaard also is a mere university undergraduate with a BA in linguistics, so he's not even qualified to discuss genetics or biology.

Open Pysch which recently published The Nature of Race was written by white nationalist pseudo-scientist John Fuerst -

John Fuerst is a white nationalist pseudoscientist. He blogs at Human Varieties.
Fuerst has published on various far-right/neo-Nazi/white nationalist blogs across the internet as "Chuck", and used to run the "Occidentalist" blog which advertised Alternative Right.[1] He claims to have also founded a “White American Meetup group”.[2] Steve Sailer wrote an article "Chuck on What We Mean by Race" which quotes some of his earlier racialist postings.[3] His posts on race and intelligence are regularly quoted on Stormfront[4] and by other racist cranks such as on VDARE.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/John_Fuerst

 

[Bells]

Mod Note

Is there a point to this thread?

 

[Mark of Kri]

This is interesting how I created this thread, as well as their Rationalwiki entries, before this happened:

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/12/11666116/70000-okcupid-users-data-release
Researchers just released profile data on 70,000 OkCupid users without permission

Yes, its the same guy, Emil OW Kirkegaard.

"On his blog, Keyes points out that Kirkegaard published the methods paper in a journal called Open Differential Psychology. The editor of that journal? Kirkegaard.
"The thing [Open Differential Psychology] looks pretty much like a vanity press," Keyes writes. "In fact, of the last 26 papers it 'published', he authored or co-authored 13." The paper claims it was peer-reviewed, but the fact that Kirkegaard is the editor is a conflict of interest."

This is what I warning about.