Where is satoshi kanazawa now

Meanwhile, a simple Google search of his name is enough to pull up several articles about his racist views, work controversies and more; many of the pieces themselves are available online as well. The University is now standing by his presence on campus, superseding whatever failed vetting system used to be in place. While those types of studies may seem individual or inconsequential in the big picture, they have and continue to contribute to dangerous and pervasive stereotypes we still see today.

As of now, Kanazawa will continue to get to use the Northwestern name for a year, and benefit from the weight it carries in the research world long after.

His stay not only reflects on his personal character, but also demonstrates that we condone racism and sexism as an institution. Northwestern: put action behind the buzzwords administrators regularly employ. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members or Editorial Board members of The Daily Northwestern. Football: No. Football: Mertz shines, while Northwestern quarterbacks struggle, in No. This is interesting, because it implies that the editors didn't initially accept that there was anything wrong with the article itself — only a headline that needed tweaking.

However, even the poorest-performing psychology undergrad at a university at the bottom of any league table will tell you that the article oozes bad science. From the article, the entire study appears to be based on the perspectives and opinions of adult respondents, Kanazawa reports his findings as "objective facts": that "black women are significantly less attractive than women of other races". He fails to provide information on the sample size for his research, or the social or economic factors including race that would have impacted on his findings so that readers can deduce for themselves as to what extent these findings can be generalised across time and space.

As some tweeters have noted, it's a classic trick in which pseudoscientists blind you with multicoloured graphs and three decimal place figures to convince lay readers that their research was thorough and is conclusive.

I mean, who can argue with three decimal places? Pseudoscience and racism have a long history together. Many people who read Kanazawa's article were instantly reminded of Nazi claims to Aryan superiority. In his tome The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, Houston Stewart Chamberlain claimed to have discovered biological evidence for Aryan superiority based on his deeply flawed concepts of human speciation. This text and others of its ilk were the basis for the attempted extermination of Jewish people under the Nazi regime but were unfortunately not without precedent.

Before Chamberlain there was the likes of Georges Cuvier and his contemporaries, whose treatment of Saartjie Baartman — also known as the Hottentot Venus — early in the 19th century was premised on the apparent biological inferiority of people of African descent, once again "proven" by bad science.

Could colonialism or slavery ever have been justified without these and other pseudoscientific claims? He is not teaching, he is not doing research and he is not being paid. He asked to come and we agreed.

Now, a personnel committee will review candidates on a preliminary basis, followed by a full department faculty review and vote. Some scholars have defended Bailey's presentation as protected by academic freedom. But dozens of Kanazawa's peers have called even his academic work "bad science. We have retired comments and introduced Letters to the Editor. Share your thoughts ». Expand comments Hide comments. View the discussion thread. About Contact Subscribe. College Adopt One-Stop Shops.