Gerhard Meisenberg
German biochemist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gerhard Meisenberg (born 22 January 1953) is a German biochemist. As of 2018, he was a professor of physiology and biochemistry at Ross University School of Medicine in Dominica.[2][1] He is a director, with Richard Lynn, of the Pioneer Fund, which has been described as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.[3] He was, until 2018 or 2019, the editor-in-chief of Mankind Quarterly, which is commonly described as a white supremacist journal and purveyor of scientific racism.[4]
Gerhard Meisenberg | |
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Born | (1953-01-22) 22 January 1953 (age 71) Dortmund, Germany |
Alma mater | University of Bochum (M.Sc), University of Munich (Ph.D)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemistry |
Institutions | Ross University School of Medicine (c. 1984 – c. 2018)[2][1] |
Thesis | (1981) |
Meisenberg was on the editorial board for the journal Intelligence until late 2018.[5][6]: 79 Geneticist Daniel MacArthur, writing for Wired, described a letter Meisenberg sent to Nature as advocating for the future use of selective breeding or genetic engineering if group genetic differences in intelligence are found.[7] Meisenberg attended and helped organize the London Conference on Intelligence,[6]: 81 [8] and was one of 15 attendees to collaborate on a letter defending the conference following media reports of its ties to white supremacy, neo-Nazism, and racist pseudoscience.[9]