False Assumption Registry

Disproportionate police searches of Black and Latino drivers indicate intentional racial discrimination unrelated to crime rates.

Open discussion and research on race differences in IQ are so dangerous that they justify censorship, institutional bans, or self-imposed ignorance to prevent racism and stereotypes.

High-profile hate crime allegations are presumptively true because systemic racism makes them statistically expected.

Immigration is needed to compensate for low birth rates and solve population decline.

Eliminating standardized testing in college admissions would promote racial equity without harming academic preparation.

Reversing Trump-era immigration restrictions would increase border crossings modestly without provoking political crisis.

The Muslim grooming gang panic is a moral panic alleging that Asian men are sexually abusing young White girls in the United Kingdom.

The Implicit Association Test measures unconscious racial bias that causes discriminatory behavior.

Women earn substantially less than men due to workplace discrimination rather than career choices and job differences.

Poverty, inequality, and deprivation are the root causes of high homicide rates.

Structural racism is a fundamental cause of health inequities.

White residents and farmers in post-apartheid South Africa would live safely under black majority rule through liberal coexistence.

Reducing police presence through anti-police activism will lower violence and homicide rates in Black communities.

Gifted programs shut out high-performing Black and Latino children from low-income families due to systemic flaws that districts can fix.

Black on White crime in the United States is not a socially important issue.

A surge at the border from lax immigration policies would not be an important issue to most voters, and stronger enforcement would alienate Latino and progressive voters.

White residents fled urban neighborhoods due to irrational racist stereotypes about black crime and disorder when blacks moved in during the mid-20th century.

Sudden transgender and nonbinary identifications among youth represent authentic innate gender identities finally freed for expression.

Amyloid proteins are the primary cause of Alzheimer's disease, prompting a cascade of biochemical changes that lead to dementia.

Anti-disinformation efforts are an unbiased, politically neutral enterprise concerned with detecting and combatting lies.

The Black-White IQ gap is entirely caused by environmental factors like socioeconomic status and education.

Matching teaching methods to students' preferred learning styles such as visual, auditory, or kinesthetic enhances learning outcomes.

Racial gaps in school achievement are primarily caused by lower spending on black students, and increasing spending will narrow those gaps.

The spike in homicides in 2020 occurred started before George Floyd's death on May 25.

Standardized test scores like SAT/ACT are less predictive of college success than high school GPA and exhibit bias against disadvantaged or minority students.

Differences in firearm homicide rates between adjacent neighborhoods are primarily caused by environmental features of places rather than differences in people.

The US faces a massive shortage of STEM workers that justifies expanding the H-1B visa program.

Microaggressions cause harm and have negative impacts on health and mental health, as inferred from correlations in nonexperimental studies.

Airport security must avoid profiling Arab or Middle Eastern-looking travelers to prevent racial discrimination and disparate impact.

Grit is more important than IQ when you're trying to become successful.

Schools and equalized environments can eliminate or substantially narrow individual differences in student achievement and learning outcomes.

Children learn to read the same way they acquire spoken language, by guessing words from contextual, semantic, and syntactic cues rather than systematic phonics.

Skepticism of transgender ideology drives trans people to suicide and equates to genocide.

DEI initiatives improve corporate performance, attract talent, and pose no significant legal or reputational risks.

Effective reporting on crime does not require public acknowledgment of racial disparities in crime rates.

The Clark doll experiment proved that segregation caused black children to develop low self-esteem and prefer white dolls over brown ones.

Black and Latino defendants receive harsher sentences than Whites or Asians for most crimes.

Drastic staff reductions in federal agencies succeed the same way as in private companies like Twitter.

SARS-CoV-2 emerged naturally from wildlife and the lab-leak hypothesis is a baseless conspiracy theory.

Delivering food shipments protected by international peacekeepers will feed Somalia's starving children and resolve the famine.

Clinical standards like growth charts and BMI thresholds assume a single human prototype applicable across all populations regardless of ancestry.

Openly discussing race differences in intelligence and outcomes repels allies, alienates voters, and weakens efforts against progressivism.

Grief universally progresses through denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance in sequence.

Deregulating banking through laws encouraging mergers and failures would consolidate and strengthen the sector for a modern economy.

IQ testing is a pseudoscientific hoax that measures arbitrary puzzle-solving ability rather than genuine, hereditary intelligence predictive of life outcomes.

The length of time children delay eating a marshmallow predicts their long-term success in life.

Race is a social construct with no genetic basis, and there are no socially important differences between human ancestry groups.

Gender is a social construct distinct from biological sex.

Environmental stresses and traumas are transmitted across multiple human generations via heritable epigenetic modifications.

Racial gaps in athletic performance such as West African dominance in sprinting and East African dominance in distance running stem from culture, stereotypes, or environment rather than genetics.

Mean IQ scores rose substantially during the 20th century due to a genuine increase in the capacity for intelligence.

Education causally builds human capital and productivity through skills learned in school, driving economic growth and labor market returns.

Autism and schizophrenia result from emotionally cold or dysfunctional mothers known as refrigerator or schizophrenogenic mothers.

Vaccinating essential workers before seniors would best promote equity and save more lives despite data showing higher deaths.

Injecting 'great-because-girl' tropes and 'bad-because-boy' dynamics into male-centric franchises will maintain or expand audience appeal and box office success.

Traumatic experiences embed in the body and tissues, causing ongoing harm relieved by somatic processing.

Human errors, biases, and violence stem from fast System 1 thinking that can be corrected by deliberate System 2 reflection.

Academic organizations like the AAUP can engage in uncritical partisan politics using the cover of academic freedom without inviting harmful external interventions.

Only licensed mental health specialists can effectively deliver evidence-based psychotherapy for depression.

Exercising state self-control through willpower in the moment reliably leads to long-term success and better life outcomes.

Traditionalist views are on the wrong side of history and destined for moral condemnation by future generations.

Liberal democracy is the endpoint of mankind’s ideological evolution and final form of human government.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator reliably measures personality and predicts job performance, compatibility, and life outcomes by sorting people into 16 distinct types.

Race differences in brain structure serve as a reminder of structural racism's public health effects.

Concerns that Joe Biden is experiencing cognitive decline or senility constitute a false narrative spread by misinformation.

Social dynamics dominated by conflict, as all history is class struggles.

Ground-penetrating radar discovered mass graves of hundreds of Indigenous children at former residential school sites.

Peer review reliably filters scientific manuscripts for methodological quality through objective inter-rater agreement among reviewers.

Students benefit academically and socially from racially integrated schools.

Sharp increases in mental health diagnoses among children reflect a genuine surge in the prevalence of mental disorders.

Borderline personality disorder is mostly caused by childhood trauma, especially sexual abuse.

Unwavering US support for Israel advances American national security and interests in the Middle East.

Rising housing prices before 2008 reflected economic fundamentals with no bubble present.

The contours of the skull reveal the size of brain organs responsible for specific mental faculties and personality traits.

The benefits of gain-of-function experiments on viruses outweigh the risks of laboratory accidents causing pandemics.

Clients unconsciously project past figures' feelings onto therapists, a core mechanism resolvable for cure in psychodynamic therapy.

Mississippi's rise in fourth-grade NAEP reading scores reflects real improvement.

Children turn out the way they do primarily because of their parents' child-rearing styles.

Controlled lab experiments in social psychology reliably demonstrate effects that occur and matter in the real world.

Population increases in geometric progression while food production increases only in arithmetic progression, inevitably leading to famine and poverty unless checked by preventive or positive measures...

Dietary fat — particularly saturated fat and cholesterol — is the primary dietary driver of cardiovascular disease.

Facilitators enable non-verbal individuals with autism to spell coherent messages on keyboards, unveiling normal intelligence.

Reminding people of negative group stereotypes subtly causes them to underperform on relevant tasks like math.

Population decline in major American cities stems primarily from economic shifts like factory closures and job losses rather than high murder rates.

South Vietnamese peasants hated Communists as much as pro-Western elites did and broadly supported the US-backed government.

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.

Donald Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.

Multiculturalism successfully manages ethnic diversity by fostering harmony through separate communities sharing a national myth.

For high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live.

Higher income inequality leads to more crime by increasing criminal payoffs and reducing opportunity costs.

Prohibiting alcohol will cure societal problems like alcoholism, domestic violence, and political corruption.

Foraging societies practiced a primitive communism representing humanity's natural species being, which modern communism scales up to eliminate oppression and achieve utopia.

Oliver Sacks' published case studies accurately depicted real patients and neurological truths.

Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein supported al-Qaeda.

Murder rates accurately reflect overall crime and disorder levels across time and between countries.

Foreign aid and reparations will kickstart economic growth and lift developing countries out of poverty.

There is no objective standard of attractiveness; it all depends on who is looking and their personal and cultural point of view.

There are approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants residing in the United States.

Lobotomy is an effective neurosurgical treatment for psychiatric disorders by severing prefrontal cortex connections.

Lysenko's techniques like vernalization and species transformation dramatically increase crop yields by allowing inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Citizens of the UK are not being thrown in jail for expressing political opinions on the Internet.

Certain regions known as Blue Zones around the world feature significantly higher rates of centenarians and exceptional longevity due to unique lifestyle factors.

Self-control depletes like a limited resource after use, causing subsequent failures.

Samuel Morton's skull measurements exemplified unconscious bias leading scientists to falsify data in support of racist views.

Depression stems from a chemical imbalance in the brain that antidepressants correct through biological mechanisms.

The year 1619 marks the true founding of the United States because the arrival of the first enslaved Africans made slavery central to American history and identity.