Editing Mankind Quarterly

'''''Mankind Quarterly''''' is a [[Racism|racist]] pseudoscientific journal masquerading as a scientific peer-reviewed journal. ''Mankind Quarterly'' is discredited by most academics.

''Mankind Quarterly'' is edited by [[Richard Lynn]] and was co-edited by [[Volkmar Weiss]].

==History==

''Mankind Quarterly'' was first published in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]] in the year 1961.<ref>{{Web citation|title=Mankind Quarterly|url=https://mankindquarterly.org/|quote=Mankind Quarterly was first published from Edinburgh in the United Kingdom in the year 1961.}}</ref> The launch of the journal was secretly funded by [[Wickliffe Draper]].<ref>{{Citation|title=Racial Science and British Society, 1930–62|page=142|retrieval-date=2020-10-08|doi=10.1057/9780230582446|isbn=9780230582446|author=G. Schaffer|publisher=Springer}}</ref>


==Critiques==

In 1961, physical anthropologist Juan Comas published a series of scathing critiques of ''Mankind Quarterly'' arguing that the journal was reproducing discredited racial ideologies, such as [[Nordicism]] and [[antisemitism]], under the guise of science.<ref>{{Citation|author=Comas Juan |year=1961 |title="Scientific" Racism Again? |doi=10.1086/200208 |journal=Current Anthropology|volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=303–340|s2cid=144747308 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation|author=Comas Juan |year=1962 |title=More on "Scientific" Racism |doi=10.1086/200293 |journal=Current Anthropology |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=284–302|s2cid=144911990 }}</ref> 

Genoves S. also criticized the journal for peddling discredited theories.<ref>{{Citation|title=Racism and “The Mankind Quarterly.”|doi=10.1126/science.134.3493.1928|publisher=Science|author=S. Genoves|year=1961|section=3493|volume=134|page=1928-1932}}</ref>

==See Also==

* [https://mankindquarterly.org/ Website]

==References==
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