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Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Open science nerds might find this interesting, on the retracted research of Hans Eysenck, the "people's psychologist." helenlewis.substack.com/p/the-flawed...

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The Flawed Genius of the People's Psychologist

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Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I was an undergraduate at the University of Sussex in the early 1970s. When Eysenck visited to give a lecture a fellow student punched him in the face for being a racist. I didn’t approve but I think we’ve known about Burt and Eysenck for a long time.

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Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Having Googled the incident, my memory could have played tricks. The attack on Eysenck was in 1973 at the LSE, whilst at Sussex there was a sit-in to oppose the visit of US historian Samuel Huntington. Happy days.

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