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Noah Carl
Born
Cambridge
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Oxford (BA, MA, DPhil)
Scientific career
FieldsSocial science
Institutions

Noah Carl is a British sociologist who was dismissed from his position as a Toby Jackman Newton Trust Research Fellow at St Edmund's College, Cambridge after over 500 academics signed a letter criticising his research.[1][2] The decision to dismiss Carl was subsequently criticised by some as an attack on academic freedom,[3][4][5] on the other hand others justified the decision, criticising Carl for publishing "selective use of data and unsound statistical methods which have been used to legitimise racist stereotypes about groups"[6] and collaborating with individuals who are known to hold far-right political views.

Biography

Carl received a BA in Human Sciences, an MSc in Sociology and a DPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford.[7] Previous to his appointment to the St Edmund's College, Cambridge fellowship, Carl's work made the news when he was the lead researcher in a study showing the link between artistic tastes and views on Brexit[8] and another time when he analyzed the reasons why London pubs are disappearing.[9] He also made the news for a report he wrote for the Adam Smith Institute, concluding that conservatives were heavily underrepresented among academics at British universities.[10][11][12][13] Additionally, he was in the news for his study on the relationship between intelligence and trust in other members of society.[14][15]

His work has been published in academic journals such as Intelligence, the Journal of Biosocial Science, the British Journal of Sociology, and Mankind Quarterly.[16] He is the second most prolific contributor to Open Quantitative Sociology & Political Science, an online journal that has been described in the New Statesman as a "pseudo-science factory-farm"[17]. According to an article in the New Statesman from February 2018, Carl had also published two papers on whether larger Muslim populations make terrorism more likely and one suggesting that British stereotypes about immigrants are "largely accurate".[18]

Carl has spoken twice at the London Conference on Intelligence, a private conference on human intelligence at which some attendees presented papers on race and intelligence and eugenics.[18] He was one of 15 attendees to collaborate on a letter defending the conference following media coverage. The letter was published in the journal Intelligence in September 2018.[19]

Appointment controversy

In December 2018, Carl was awarded the Toby Jackman Newton Trust Research Fellowship at St Edmund's College. More than 500 academics[1] signed a letter opposing Carl's appointment to the research fellowship, alleging that Carl's work was based on pseudoscience and discredited race sciences.[20] Mathematician Clément Mouhot was one of the organizers of the letter.[21] An editorial published by Quillette denounced the letter for undermining academic freedom and for making accusations without evidence. The editorial was endorsed by notable academics including Jonathan Haidt, Cass Sunstein, and Peter Singer.[5] Sunstein later compared Carl's treatment to a stoning.[22]

An investigation was conducted by a panel and concluded that his work "demonstrated poor scholarship, promoted extreme right-wing views and incited racial and religious hatred", and "that the poor scholarship of this problematic body of Dr Carl's work, among other things, meant that it fell outside any protection that might otherwise be claimed for academic freedom of speech".[23][24] The investigation also found that Carl had "collaborated with a number of individuals who were known to hold extremist views" and that "There was a serious risk that Dr Carl’s appointment could lead, directly or indirectly, to the college being used as a platform to promote views that could incite racial or religious hatred, and bring the college into disrepute". Carl was subsequently sacked.[25] A separate investigation into his hiring was restricted to the recruitment process itself and not assessing the nature of the work: it was led by retired judge Sir Patrick Elias and found no irregularities.[23]

The decision to sack Carl was criticised by The Times in a leading article, which argued that Carl's "main offence seems to have been to challenge the “woke” left-wing orthodoxy now starting to grip British universities as it does many American ones."[3] Opinion columnists in The Telegraph and The Spectator also criticised the decision.[4][26] More than 600 academics signed a statement published by Quillette expressing support for Carl and disappointment with the Governing Body of St Edmund’s College for what they call injustice visited upon him.[27]. In June 2019, Noah Carl began crowdfunding a legal challenge to his dismissal.[28] It was later revealed that "In raising money to dispute the allegations that he has ties to the far-right, Noah Carl has enlisted the services of a man with close ties to the far-right".[29] The man behind the Noah Carl Legal Fund, Conner Douglass, has a history of using his software skills to enable the funding of the far-right, and his plateform MakerSupport was supported by American neo-Nazi and white supremacist Richard B. Spencer.[30]

Political views

Carl identifies as a "moderate conservative".[31] However this has been questioned, for example an article in New Statesman describes Carl as far-right, pointing out his publications in the Mankind Quarterly[32] which has been described as a "white supremacist journal".[33]

At OpenPsych,[34] Carl in 2017 controversially co-authored a paper with Emil O. W. Kirkegaard, who is widely considered a white nationalist and a "figure on the radical right fringe".[35] Carl has defended his association with individuals like Kirkegaard with far-right political views, writing on his blog section Noah Carl Controversy FAQ: "I am capable of interacting with people who hold different views from me."

References

  1. ^ a b "Open Letter: No to Racist Pseudoscience at Cambridge". medium.com. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  2. ^ Parker, Charlie (1 May 2019). "Cambridge academic Noah Carl sacked over 'racist' study". The Times. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  3. ^ a b "The Times view on the sacking of Noah Carl: Monoversities". The Times. 10 May 2019.
  4. ^ a b Mirza, Munira (5 May 2019). "Intolerant zealots are strangling the intellectual freedom of our universities". The Telegraph.
  5. ^ a b "Academics' Mobbing of a Young Scholar Must be Denounced". Quillette. 7 December 2018. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  6. ^ Adams, Richard. (7 Dec 2018).Cambridge gives role to academic accused of racist stereotyping. The Guardian.
  7. ^ "Dr Noah Carl The Toby Jackman Newton Trust Research Fellow". St. Edmund's College website. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  8. ^ Hern, Alex (10 October 2018). "Brexiters like realism, remainers prefer impressionist art, study finds". Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  9. ^ "Why London's pubs are disappearing". The Economist. 24 August 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  10. ^ Editor, Greg Hurst, Education (2017-03-02). "Lurch to left raises concerns for campus free speech". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2018-12-08. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "British Universities Seen as Too Liberal, Intolerant". CNS News. 2017-03-22. Retrieved 2018-12-08.
  12. ^ Hurst, Greg (2017-03-02). "Lurch to left raises concerns for campus free speech". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2018-12-08.
  13. ^ Moore, Charles (2017-03-03). "We must be ever vigilant of the Left's insidious domination of our institutions". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-12-08.
  14. ^ Beck, Julie (20 March 2014). "Study: Smarter People Are More Trusting". The Atlantic.
  15. ^ "Studie der Universität Oxford: Warum dumme Menschen keinem trauen". Wirtschaftswoche (in German). 18 March 2014.
  16. ^ Carl,, Noah (1 June 2018). "'The Relationship between Solar Radiation and IQ in the United Kingdom". Mankind Quarterly.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  17. ^ Van der Merwe, Ben (20 December 2018). "No, objecting to Cambridge's appointment of a eugenicist is not about free speech". The New Statesman.
  18. ^ a b Van Der Merwe, Ben (19 February 2018). "It might be a pseudo science, but students take the threat of eugenics seriously". New Statesman. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  19. ^ Woodley of Menie, Michael A.; Dutton, Edward; Figueredo, Aurelio-José; Carl, Noah; Debes, Fróði; Hertler, Steven; Irwing, Paul; Kura, Kenya; Lynn, Richard; Madison, Guy; Meisenberg, Gerhard; Miller, Edward M.; te Nijenhuis, Jan; Nyborg, Helmuth; Rindermann, Heiner (September 2018). "Communicating intelligence research: Media misrepresentation, the Gould Effect, and unexpected forces". Intelligence. 70: 84–87. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2018.04.002.
  20. ^ Lally, Catherine (7 December 2018). "Cambridge dons revolt over 'racist' fellow's role". The Times. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  21. ^ Adams, Richard (7 December 2018). "Cambridge gives role to academic accused of racist stereotyping". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  22. ^ Sunstein, Cass R. (23 May 2019). "We Need a Word for Destructive Group Outrage". Bloomberg Opinion. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  23. ^ a b "Statement from the Master regarding the outcome of the investigations into complaints about the appointment of Research Fellow" (PDF). 30 April 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  24. ^ Bradbury, Rosie; Cook, Joe (30 April 2019). "Controversial research fellow Noah Carl dismissed by St Edmund's". Varsity Online. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  25. ^ Adams, Richard (1 May 2019). "Cambridge college sacks researcher over links with far right". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  26. ^ Campbell, Hugh (4 May 2019). "The truth about Noah Carl". The Spectator.
  27. ^ "Cambridge Capitulates to the Mob and Fires a Young Scholar". Quillette. 2 May 2019.
  28. ^ Young, Toby. "How Noah Carl is fighting back against Cambridge". The Spectator. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  29. ^ van der Merwe, Ben; Bradbury, Rosie (12 July 2019). "Noah Carl defence fund linked to far-right". Cherwell. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  30. ^ Michel, Casey (19 March 2018). "'This is all we've got': Young white supremacists are down to their last fundraising platform". Think Progress. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  31. ^ Noah Carl Controversy: FAQ.
  32. ^ Van Der Merwe, Ben. (20 Dec 2018). No, objecting to Cambridge’s appointment of a eugenicist is not about free speech. New Statesman.
  33. ^ Gresson, Aaron; Kincheloe, Joe L.; Steinberg, Shirley R. (eds.). Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined (1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.). St. Martin's Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-312-17228-2.
  34. ^ Cognitive ability and political preferences in Denmark.
  35. ^ Eugenics: White Nationalists Continue to Turn to the False Theory of Genetic Supremacy. Centre for Analysis of Radical Right.
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