Edward Dutton (author)

Dutton has a degree in Theology from Durham University and a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Aberdeen.[4]

As of 2012, Dutton was a religious anthropologist employed as a teacher at the University of Oulu in Finland and was also reported to be a freelance editor.[5] By 2016, he was a Docent in anthropology at the same university and had a Finnish wife and two children.[6][7] In September 2016, Oulu University started an investigation into an article by Dutton and Richard Lynn, "A negative Flynn effect in Finland, 1997–2009", published in Intelligence in 2013.[8] In an announcement made by the university in June 2017, Dutton was found to have conducted scientific misconduct due to plagiarism.[9] The article discussed IQ tests done on Finnish conscripts, and a table of the IQ test results had been compiled by a student for a master's thesis which was not attributed. Dutton stated in his response that the master's thesis was attributed in his original version but that Lynn had removed the attribution. Although Lynn took responsibility for the incident, the university did not investigate Lynn's part because he had never been associated with the institution.[10] Dutton was not employed by the university at the time of the incident either, but the university investigated it due to its name being used in the study. The university informed Lynn's affiliates about the conclusion and asked Intelligence to issue a correction.[9]

In 2018, Dutton published a study of the personal life of the controversial Canadian psychologist J. Philippe Rushton, analysing an autobiographical manuscript written by Rushton and speaking to dozens of people who had known him. He said of this "I was… instinctively sympathetic to him in a way that a lot of his critics aren’t… I was rather less sure he was wrong."[11]

Dutton was previously editor-in-chief of the pseudoscientific[12][13] racist[14][15][16][17] journal Mankind Quarterly.[18] As of 2021, he was a member of its Advisory Board.[19] Some of the books Dutton has authored have been published by Washington Summit Publishers operated by neo-Nazi Richard B. Spencer.[3][20][21] He is currently listed as an editor of the Radix Journal, which was also founded by Spencer.[22]

In May 2021, Dutton was reported to be teaching evolutionary psychology at Asbiro University in Poland,[23] a privately-run business school in Łódź, Poland.[21]

Dutton operates a Youtube channel called "Prof. Edward Dutton: The Jolly Heretic."[24]

Dutton has published work on human intelligence, such as a study he co-authored with Richard Lynn in 2014 which claimed that physical scientists are more intelligent than social scientists.[25][26] He has co-written a paper with Jan te Nijenhuis about the average IQ in Finland, and the apparent discrepancy between Finland's high average IQ and its relative lack of Nobel Prize-winning scientists.[27][28]

Dutton wrote in 2014 "… my research finds that it is not only fervent religiousness that is associated with low intelligence, but any fervent advocacy of an ideology - whether it is Marxism, multiculturalism, or conservative nationalism. Indeed, I would argue that ideologies are, in many ways, replacement religions."[29]

In December 2017, an article by Dutton in Evolutionary Psychological Science, "The Mutant Says in His Heart, There Is No God" concluded that academics are overwhelmingly atheist, but that atheists are genetic mutants, most of whom would not have been born if the world had not broken free of pre-industrial conditions of Darwinian selection. It also found that atheists are more likely to be left handed than others.[30]

Dutton's 2018 book At Our Wits' End, coauthored with Michael Woodley, was reviewed by Egyptology student Julien Delhez for the journal Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences in 2020. Delhez described the book's strengths as "its accessibility to the general public and the amount of evidence provided by the authors for a decline in g.h. [heritable general intelligence]".[31]

Dutton wrote a paper in defense of Kevin MacDonald's Culture of Critique series, which claims that Jewish people are biologically ethnocentric to the detriment of other groups. The work was published in the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science in 2018.[32] The article was defended by the journal's editor, Todd K. Shackelford, as a good fit because it was "risky", while board member Steven Pinker criticized the journal's decisions to publish the paper. Pinker said it contributed nothing new, and was unsupported by evolutionary psychology while also repeating old antisemitic canards.[33]

In 2018, Dutton has attended the London Conference on Intelligence, which is associated with eugenics,[33][34]and was one of fifteen attendees who contributed to a defense of the conference published in Intelligence in response to media coverage of the event.[35]

In 2019, Dutton gave a speech for the white nationalist group Patriotic Alternative operated by neo-Nazi Mark Collett.[20] Dutton has appeared as a guest on the white nationalist[36] podcast Red Ice.[37][38] In November 2019, Dutton spoke at the far-right Scandza Forum, in Oslo.[39][40]

On 19 October 2019, Dutton addressed the annual conference of the far-right Traditional Britain Group, where he argued that British inventions and genius placed them at the apex of civilisation.[41]

Dutton has lectured in favor of ideas about race and intelligence, such as his belief that people with "blonde hair and blues eyes" have higher intelligence, according to his theories in his book How to Judge People by What They Look Like. According to Aidan Bridgeman, a University of Aberdeen student writing in the Gaudie, Dutton has stated that Black Lives Matter advocates are mentally ill, that Muslims have a natural tendency to want to commit genocide, and that left-handed people are pedophiles.[3]

Dutton is distantly related to Sir Piers Dutton, about whom he wrote a biographical book entitled The Ruler of Cheshire: Sir Piers Dutton, Tudor Gangland and the Violent Politics of the Palatine.[7] A British citizen, in 2017 he was living in Oulu, Finland, and was married to a Finnish woman with whom he had two children.[6]

Dutton has written 16 books,[42] as well as chapters in books The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture[43] and the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science.[44]

Books

• 2008 – Meeting Jesus at University: Rites of Passage and Student Evangelicals (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishers, ISBN 9780754665205)
• 2009 – The Finnuit: Finnish Culture and the Religion of Uniqueness (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, ISBN 9789630587310)
• 2012 – Culture Shock and Multiculturalism (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ISBN 9781443835268)
• 2014 – Religion and Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis (London: Ulster Institute for Social Research), ISBN 9780957391352
• 2015 – with Richard Lynn: Race and Sport: Evolution and Racial Differences in Sporting Ability (London: Ulster Institute for Social Research), ISBN 978-0993000133
• 2015 – The Ruler of Cheshire: Sir Piers Dutton, Tudor Gangland and the Violent Politics of the Palatine (Northwich: Leonie Press), ISBN 9781901253573 ASIN B017E649W2
• 2016 – with Bruce Charlton: The Genius Famine: Why We Need Geniuses, Why They're Dying Out and Why we Must Rescue Them (Buckingham: University of Buckingham Press, ebook ISBN 9781789551488)
• 2018 – How to Judge People By What They Look Like (Oulu: Thomas Edward Press; self-published), ISBN 9781977067975
• 2018 – J. Philippe Rushton: A Life History Perspective (Oulu: Thomas Edward Press; self-published), ISBN 9781983273704 - A biography of J. Philippe Rushton described by Inside Higher Ed as "damning".[45]
• 2018 – with Michael Woodley: At Our Wits’ End: Why We’re Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future (Exeter: Imprint Academic, ISBN 9781845409852)
• 2019 – The Silent Rape Epidemic (Oulu: Thomas Edward Press; self-published), ISBN 9781799003649 - Discusses the Oulu child sexual exploitation scandal, and uses it to illustrate Dutton's hypothesis that the Finns are societally and genetically unusual.[46]
• 2019 – Race Differences in Ethnocentrism (Budapest: Arktos), ISBN 9781912975259
• 2019 – Churchill’s Headmaster: The 'Sadist' Who Nearly Saved the British Empire (Melbourne: Manticore Press), ISBN 9780648499633
• 2020 – Why Islam Makes You Stupid ... But Also Means You'll Conquer the World (Washington Summit Publishers), ISBN 9781593680633
• 2020 – Islam: An Evolutionary Perspective (Washington Summit Publishers), ASIN B0945HS8VX
• 2020 – Making Sense of Race (Washington Summit Publishers), ISBN 9781593680701
• 2021 – Witches, Feminism, and the Fall of the West (Washington Summit Publishers), ISBN 9781593680794

Selected journal articles

• Dutton, Edward; Madison, Guy; Dunkel, Curtis (2018). "The Mutant Says in His Heart, "There Is No God": the Rejection of Collective Religiosity Centred Around the Worship of Moral Gods Is Associated with High Mutational Load". Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer Science+Business Media. 4 (3): 233–244. doi:10.1007/s40806-017-0133-5. S2CID 33975378. Retrieved 2 May 2021.

• Personal website (former)
• Edward Dutton, Reclaiming Anthropology for Science: A Libertarian Approach (2010), academia.edu