Talk:Northern League (United Kingdom)

Cattell

The Cattell membership needs to be verified. If the information that he was a member was gleaned from ISAR, it should be noted that if read closely the ISAR article does not go so far as to say that Cattell was a member of the Northern League. http://www.ferris.edu/isar/bios/cattell/HPPB/visions.htm Although there are important differences in their positions, particularly in Cattell’s much greater sophistication regarding statistical issues and more complex view of culture, their shared eugenic vision indicates that cooperation was more than a matter of convenience.... Leading members of the Northern League included the premier Nazi race scientist Hans Günther, who continued his work in the postwar period under a pseudonym. It should be noted that Cattell cited Günther in Beyondism as an authority on the genetic quality of Harold MacMillan’s family (1987, p. 38). Other active members included... hitssquad 02:43, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

I just changed that a bit. See if that is more clear until we have a citation. It is widely known they collaborated. Jokestress 03:13, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

But Cattell did not himself describe any of his work as scientific racism or written in the style of scientific racism did he? hitssquad 16:27, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

I don't think that sentence claims he did. However, plenty of people have accused Cattell of scientific racism, to the level that Cattell has written rejoinders about it. Jokestress 16:44, 25 August 2005 (UTC)