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Wednesday 18 May 2011

'Black women are less attractive than others': Controversial LSE psychologist sparks backlash with his 'scientific' findings



What man could be so stupid as to slag off a race of women? It's hard enough for a man to find a good woman these days so why make it harder for yourself? Remember, never make a woman feel bad about herself. She'll find ways to make sure your life is hell!!

A controversial psychologist has caused outrage after publishing an article claiming black women are less attractive than those of other races. Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, attempts to justify his theory using scientific methods in an astonishing blog post on Psychology Today.

Using findings from a study of physical attractiveness by Add Health, he claims the results show that 'black women are... far less attractive than white, Asian, and Native American women. He then tries to come up with reasons for his perception of the report.

'Black women are on average much heavier than nonblack women,' he says. However, this is not the reason black women are less physically attractive than nonblack women.' Kanazawa also uses genetic reasoning to try to add some weight to his theory.

'Because they have existed much longer in human evolutionary history, Africans have more mutations in their genomes than other races,' he says.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388313/LSE-psychologist-Satoshi-Kanazawa-claims-black-women-attractive.html#ixzz1MjF3p6cB

So, having attacked black women because he says they are too fat, he then goes on to say their unattractiveness is because of mutations in their genes. Um...er...time to find a quiet academic post in Chile methinks!!

Johnny Depp is revealed as the Queen's cousin (20 times removed)

You couldn't make this stuff up! Johnny Depp is revealed as the Queen's cousin (20 times removed). We've heard that Lady Gaga is related to Madonna, while Obama counts Brad Pitt amongst his unlikely distant cousins. Now it has been revealed that Johnny Depp shares his ancestors with none other than the Queen. The pair are cousins, 20 times removed, a genealogist researching Depp's family tree has revealed. Don't see much of a resemblance myself!



Hollywood actor Depp, 47, is descended from the Deppes family - French Huguenots living in 14th Century England. Dr Nick Barratt, who works on the British version of Who Do You Think You Are?, told the Sunday Mirror: 'You have to go back more than 500 years to reach the point where his ancestors become royal.'



So now we know!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1387261/Johnny-Depp-revealed-Queens-cousin-20-times-removed.html#ixzz1Mh8WDKFE

New smartphone privacy alert as Android handsets found to be prone to leaking data




More fears about privacy have surfaced this week. Millions of smartphones which use the Android software promoted by Google are a security risk, it was claimed yesterday. Researchers found that criminals can tap into the transfer of information between the phones and the internet, gaining access to personal data. The discovery was made by security experts at the University of Ulm in Germany.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1388107/New-smartphone-privacy-alert-Android-handsets-prone-leaking-data.html#ixzz1Mgs2FFgd