Cyril BurtFraud or Framed?

Abstract

When Cyril Burt died in 1971, he was widely regarded as Britain's most eminent educational psychologist. Within five years of his death, however, he was being publicly denounced as a fraud who had fabricated data purporting to show that human intelligence is inherited. Was he really a fraud? Or was he accused of fraud by critics anxious to dismiss such a politically unacceptable scientific theory? Where does the truth lie? The chapters to this book examine the evidence carefully and dispassionately and conclude that both the defence and the prosecution cases are seriously flawed. This is a reanalysis of the data, which has turned up new instances of potential fraud, which were not evident before. This book provides an unbiased analysis of one of the most notorious scandals in science.

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