Figures.

As an update to Jessica’s post on the recent study claiming women are less intelligent than men, we’ve found that one of the researchers is not only sexist, but a eugenicist as well.
Lakshmi from The L-Files got the scoop from Atrios on this creepy mofo, Richard Lynn. He has apparently influenced the work of the authors of “The Bell Curve,” and has published works in a number of eugenicist journals. Here’s just a taste of his thoughts:
“What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the population of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of the ‘phasing out’ of such peoples…. Evolutionary progress means the extinction of the less competent. To think otherwise is mere sentimentality.”
People scare me.