21 Facts About Helmuth Nyborg

Helmuth Nyborg is a former professor of developmental psychology at Aarhus University.

Helmuth Nyborg has stood as a candidate for the far-right party Stram Kurs.

Helmuth Nyborg has argued that white people tend to be more intelligent than black people, that immigration from non-Western countries leads to a decline in the average intelligence of the receiving Western country, and that atheists tend to be more intelligent than religious people.

Helmuth Nyborg's papers have been criticized within and outside academia and in 2013, the Danish Committees for Scientific Dishonesty ruled that he committed scientific misconduct in his paper The Decay of Western Civilization: Double Relaxed Darwinian Selection.

Helmuth Nyborg competed as a canoe sprinter in the early 1960s.

Helmuth Nyborg was eventually acquitted by the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty of the charges of scientific misconduct and the university was forced to reinstall him to his chair.

In 2011 Helmuth Nyborg published "The Decay of Western Civilization: Double Relaxed Darwinian Selection" in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, arguing that Denmark was likely to experience a dysgenic effect on intelligence due to immigration from the Middle East.

Helmuth Nyborg stated that he had offered co-authorship to Vig, but that the offer was declined and Vig had requested not to be mentioned, making Helmuth Nyborg choose to publish it himself.

The second charge was that Helmuth Nyborg had neglected to mention in the methodology section that he had converted a total fertility rate into a crude birth rate, a mistake which, because of its consequences, the DCSD considered to be equivalent to constructing data without acknowledging having done so, or substituting fictive data.

When Helmuth Nyborg learned that this was a problem, he sent an addendum to the journal, which is common practice when errors or omissions are found in published papers.

In 2015, the journal published an editorial commenting on the paper concluding that Helmuth Nyborg had not committed fraud or plagiarism.

Helmuth Nyborg then sued the DCSD to get the verdict reversed, won his case in March 2016, and in addition was awarded costs of over 200,000 kr.

Helmuth Nyborg stood as a candidate for Stram Kurs, a far-right political party.

Helmuth Nyborg has been criticised for holding pseudohistorical Nordicist and white supremacist beliefs linked to Richard Lynn's cold winter theory including the idea that ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome civilisations were founded by central-northern European peoples who migrated south.

Helmuth Nyborg has published in the Mankind Quarterly journal which has been described as a "pseudo-scholarly outlet for promoting racial inequality".

In 2011, Helmuth Nyborg was a speaker at a private seminar hosted by the Danish Society for Historical Research, titled "Revolt Against Civilization" that featured anti-Semites and white nationalists including David Duke former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Kevin MacDonald and Tomislav Sunic.

In 2016, Helmuth Nyborg was interviewed by alt-right podcaster Stefan Molyneux.

In 2017, Helmuth Nyborg spoke at a conference organised by the white nationalist American Renaissance.

In 2018, Helmuth Nyborg spoke at the far-right Scandza Forum conference in Copenhagen, Denmark having met "top people from the Alt-Right movement".

In 2022, Helmuth Nyborg spoke at a Traditional Britain Group conference.

Helmuth Nyborg has attended the London Conference on Intelligence and was one of 15 attendees to collaborate on a letter defending the conference following media reports of its ties to white supremacy, neo-Nazism, and racist pseudoscience.