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5.20.2011

students call for satoshi kanazawa's dismissal

This week, in the fallout from controversy over the crazy racist and sexist -- aka "crap science" -- writings of evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa, the University of London Union Senate voted unanimously in favor of calling a campaign for his dismissal from the London School of Economics: Students Push to Get Satoshi Kanazawa Fired in London.
On Thursday, the University of London Union Senate, which represents 120,000 students, voted unanimously in favor of calling a campaign for the dismissal of evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa. The London School of Economics professor made international headlines this week after publishing a scathing set of pseudoscientific bar graphs meant to prove how black women are "objectively and subjectively" less attractive than white, Asian and Native American women.
More here: LSE investigates lecturer's blog over race row. From the great scientific mind who also wrote such illuminating blog entries as "Are All Women Essentially Prostitutes?" and "What's wrong with Muslims?" Who the hell gave this guy a job teaching at an actual accredited university?

Here's also a Change.org petition holding Psychology Today accountable for giving Kanazawa's a place to spew his racist and sexist ideology: Psychology Today: Stop Publishing Racist & Sexist Articles.