Why haven’t journals retracted ‘research’ from Richard Lynn?

https://www.statnews.com/?p=1167931&utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--K2EPLWFNCf_6-jRVUXZ6oaXTAs9C5H1m08zpjoWkd1sS-xQAwy6ZCowXNDi7hwdR8W1lJ10Zv6QWp_5RxkRIv_qmmsQ&_hsmi=312191336&utm_content=312191336&utm_source=hs_email The researcher Richard Lynn died in 2023, but his work continues to be cited today; Google Scholar reports more than 22,000 citations, with almost 4,500 of them coming after 2019. The last article he co-authored in a mainstream journal was published early in the year he died, and a posthumously published article recently appeared in a fringe journal. What did he research, you ask? For decades, Lynn was one of the loudest proponents of the unfounded idea that Western civilization is threatened by “inferior races” that are genetically predisposed to low intelligence, violence, and criminality. His work has been repeatedly condemned by social scientists and biologists for using flawed methodology and deceptively collated data to support racism. But despite decades of criticism of the poor quality and practices of his work, only a few journals have taken any action to retract his papers or even acknowledge the criticism. Read more in a new First Opinion essay about the legacy of his work.