Via Pharyngula comes this frankly bizarre, racist research paper, the abstract of which is below (emphasis mine):
Abstract: For cultural, social, and institutional reasons, Asians cannot make original contributions to basic science. I therefore doubt Miller’s prediction for the Asian future of evolutionary psychology. I believe that its future will continue to be in the United States and Europe.
Now since the author, Satoshi Kanazawa seems to be of Asian descent himself, it may be that this is some sort of weird April Fools joke or something, but he seems deadly serious. Looking at the list of publications in his biography, (as well as the original paper P.Z. Myers discovered) and it seems clear Kanazawa has his own agenda: to “prove” that differences in intelligence, health and income are determined by evolution and builtin differences between races/genders rather than the product of societal pressures. I may be doing Kanazawa a disfavour, but I don’t think so.
Thoughts?