Michael Dylan Rogers

Updates

  • 29/01/2025: Rogers' original faculty page at the Pacific Northwest College of Art website, which had described him as a part-time assistant professor, is now defunct and has been replaced with a new page that describes him as an adjunct. The PNCA faculty list still identifies other employees as part-time assistant faculty, so the position was not merely renamed. Following his change in employment status he made a complaint to this website's host, and did not edit Wikipedia for a period of a few weeks, but has now resumed his usual behavior there as though nothing had happened
  • 19/10/2024: Rogers has removed "Mainstream science on intelligence", a 1997 consensus statement published in Intelligence, as a "fringe" source. This removal stands out because at Wikipedia the quality of a source depends on how it is cited in other sources. The removed paper had been cited over 2,100 times and is treated as an authoritative source in various major literature reviews and general psychology textbooks. Also significant is that the removal happened at a time when Rogers' employers at the Pacific Northwest College of Art are clearly aware of the long-term experiment involving him, as well as the real purpose of getting him to demonstrate how his viewpoint requires these actions.
  • 24/07/2024: Rogers' latest removal from Wikipedia is a paper published in the APA journal Psychological Bulletin, which had been cited in the article about general cognitive ability. The source he removed is about a basic concept of psychometry, does not relate to race, and in his edit summary his justification for removing it is that it allegedly is not a reliable source. As in the other examples described here, he is acting out the racialist argument that's been made since 2018 by users who are parodies of progressives. The mock-progressive argument is that if one rejects race science, it is required to reject these various uncontroversial sources and ideas alongside it, including papers published in top psychology journals.
  • 11/07/2024 - 23/07/2024: Rogers has tried to prevent another Wikipedia user from restoring some of the material that Rogers removed from the articles about Fertility and Intelligence [1] and the Flynn effect. [2], [3] In this newest instance Rogers' attempts were largely unsuccessful. Ironically, while undoing the attempts to restore this content, he justified his reversions based on "consensus". He had initially removed it from these articles without any discussion, and in later discussions [4] [5] he had been the only person defending the removals.