Here's a quick summary of the 'paragon' you sourced:
Rushton's controversial work was heavily criticized by the scientific community for the questionable quality of its research,[1] with many alleging that it was conducted under a racist agenda.[2] From 2002 until his death, he served as the head of the Pioneer Fund, a research foundation that has been accused of being racist, with its founders being American sympathizers for the Nazi eugenicist program.[3]
n 1989, geneticist and media personality David Suzuki criticized Rushton's racial theories in a live televised debate at the University of Western Ontario.[52] He said, "There will always be Rushtons in science, and we must always be prepared to root them out!" At the same occasion, when Rushton was asked if he believed in racial superiority, he said, "Oh, no!" He said, "from an evolutionary point of view, superiority can only mean adaptive value—if it even means this. And we've got to realize that each of these populations is perfectly, beautifully adapted to their own ancestral environments."[53]
Also in 1989, Michael Lynn published a paper in the Journal of Research in Personality criticizing a study by Rushton & Bogaert that had been published in the same journal two years earlier. Lynn cited four reasons he considered Rushton & Bogaert's study to be flawed:
First, they did not explain why natural selection would have favored different reproductive strategies for different races. Second, their data on race differences are of questionable validity because their literature review was selective and their original analyses were based on self-reports. Third, they provided no evidence that these race differences had significant effects on reproduction or that sexual restraint is a K characteristic. Finally, they did not adequately rule out environmental explanations for their data.[54]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Philippe_Rushton
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Philippe Rushton's assertions regarding differences in average intelligence, and criminal and sexual behavior between the races were well documented.
Race, Evolution, and Behavior:
Rushton's debate with David Suzuki can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9FGHtfnYWY
Rushton came across as a polished gentleman scholar. Suzuki came across as a beligerant thug. He did not even bother to wear a suit.
Different parenting practices can be explained by the fact that in cold climates children require more care, but caring for them does make a difference in their survival. Nevertheless, the more children one has, the more difficult it is to care for each one. In sub Saharan Africa food was traditionally easy to find, but there was a high death rate from African diseases. It was difficult to defend against the diseases. They struck everyone equally. A person who had many children could expect some of them to live.
I do not believe that the Pioneer Fund ever endorsed the Nazi movement. Drawing a connection between the Pioneer Fund and the Nazi movement is a result of the guilt by association falacy.
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An association fallacy is an informal inductive fallacy of the hasty-generalization or red-herring type and which asserts, by irrelevant association and often by appeal to emotion, that qualities of one thing are inherently qualities of another. Two types of association fallacies are sometimes referred to as guilt by association and honor by association.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
