Elsevier and/or journal editor-in-chief Richard Haier appear to have unceremoniously removed race scientists Richard Lynn and Gerhard Meisenberg (both editors-in-chief of Mankind Quarterly) from the editorial board of the respected peer-reviewed journal Intelligence. Back in January, Angela Saini noted their status as editorial board members in a column in the Guardian, and the following month, Ben van der Merwe pointed out the same thing in an article in the New Statesman.* When Saini initially confronted Haier about the status of Lynn and Meisenberg as editorial board members, Haier told her, "I consulted several people about this. I decided that it’s better to deal with these things with sunlight and by inclusion. The area of the relationship between intelligence and group differences is probably the most incendiary area in the whole of psychology. And some of the people who work in that area have said incendiary things … I have read some quotes, indirect quotes, that disturb me, but throwing people off an editorial board for expressing an opinion really kind of puts us in a dicey area. I prefer to let the papers and the data speak for themselves." (Emphasis mine.)
Thanks to the Wayback Machine, we know they were both still listed as editors as recently as April (note that Lynn was listed with no affiliation at all, unlike all of the other editors). And in fact, even the most recent complete volume of the journal (July/August 2018) lists both Lynn and Meisenberg as editors. But as of today, both Lynn and Meisenberg's names have been removed from the journal's editorial board page, clearly in response to public criticism of their status as board members. One wonders if Personality and Individual Differences will do the same, since Lynn (though not Meisenberg) is a member of their editorial board.
*Note: Van der Merwe also noted that "Two other board members are Heiner Rindermann and Jan te Nijenhuis, frequent contributors to Mankind Quarterly and the London Conference on Intelligence." Update: I didn't notice this when I first wrote this post, but apparently te Nijenhuis (but not Rindermann) has been removed from the editorial board as of Sept. 3, despite the fact that te Nijenhuis was listed as an editor in the aforementioned July/August 2018 issue.
Addendum: After writing and publishing this post I discovered that some RationalWiki editor(s) had already noticed this and posted about it last Sunday on this page.
