ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Dr. Oliver Gillie's testimony, in his first "revelatory" article of October 1976, and in the many other subsequent statements made between then and 1984. In an exchange of letters in the Sunday Telegraph, the author pressed Gillie for his explanation of this, finding it incongruous with all he had maintained. A example of Gillie's standards of rigor and impartiality in scientific criticism is to be seen in his charge of plagiarism. Leon Kamin had published his criticisms, the Clarkes were evidently making their doubts known, some London University scholars were experiencing difficulty in tracing two or three of Burt's assistants, but no charge of fraud—whether the most sensational this century or otherwise—was being made. The racist and eugenics smear was subsequently made, however, in much more radical ways. In Germany, where eugenics was known as race hygiene, the movement had appalling consequences.
