ABSTRACT
Malfeasance is a word used by Leslie Hearnshaw, which the author take to mean "official misconduct." It does seem the most appropriate word to use for the overall disrepute into which Sir Cyril Burt has fallen. "The insinuation of 'racism' made against Burt," said no less a person than Sir Andrew Huxley, "is absolutely without foundation. Burt's interest and concern was always focused upon individuals; insisting always that the range of ability within each social class was wider than that which existed between them, and that all individuals should be given the education their particular abilities and talents deserved, whatever their social origins. Burt noted that despite all the opposition of Environmentalists to the Hereditarian findings, none had ever produced any empirical evidence for their own theory of the determination of intelligence, whereas he had advanced a number of clear grounds and arguments for rejecting it.
