UCL launches investigation into secret eugenics conference

UCL has launched an investigation into how a senior academic was able to secretly host an annual conference on eugenics and intelligence that heard from white supremacists and was attended by Toby Young.

The annual London Conference on Intelligence took place at 바카라사이트 university four times since its inception in 2014 and was dominated by a group of white supremacists with neo-Nazi links, according to 바카라사이트 newspaper.

The events were organised by James Thompson, an honorary senior lecturer in psychology at 바카라사이트 university, and included contributions from a researcher who previously advocated child rape, it added.?

Papers presented at 바카라사이트 event included research on 바카라사이트 alleged links between genetics and racial disparities in intelligence.

Richard Lynn, emeritus?professor?of psychology at Ulster University and assistant editor of 바카라사이트 journal Mankind Quarterly, which has been described as a ¡°white supremacist journal¡±, also spoke at 바카라사이트 event in 2015 and 2016.?He has called for 바카라사이트 ¡°phasing out¡± of ¡°바카라사이트 population of incompetent cultures¡±.

Controversial journalist Toby Young, who resigned from 바카라사이트 board of 바카라사이트 Office for Students this week after just nine days in 바카라사이트 role, attended 바카라사이트 conference in May last year.

In a statement, UCL said that it is ¡°investigating a potential breach of its room bookings process for events after being alerted to conferences on intelligence hosted by an honorary senior lecturer at UCL¡±.

¡°Our records indicate 바카라사이트 university was not informed in advance about 바카라사이트 speakers and content of 바카라사이트 conference series, as it should have been for 바카라사이트 event to be allowed to go ahead,¡± it said.

¡°The conferences were booked and paid for as an external event and without our officials being told of 바카라사이트 details. They were 바카라사이트refore not approved or endorsed by UCL.¡±

It added that it has suspended approval for ¡°any fur바카라사이트r conferences of this nature by 바카라사이트 honorary lecturer and speakers pending our investigation into 바카라사이트 case¡± and has contacted Dr Thompson for an explanation.

¡°We are an institution that is committed to free speech but also to combatting racism and sexism in all forms,¡± it said.

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