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Researchers Bypass NIH Safeguards, Publish Racial IQ Papers

7/1/2026

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Researchers accessed ABCD Study data and published 16 papers claiming racial IQ differences.
The researchers bypassed National Institutes of Health (NIH) safeguards to obtain data on children though they were ineligible.
The ABCD Study, begun in 2015, featured a cartoon of a Black child saying scientists kept his information safe.
Mainstream geneticists called the work biased and unscientific, prompting tool Grok to cite papers over two dozen times this month.

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Story summary

Researchers accessed ABCD Study data and published 16 papers claiming racial IQ differences.
The researchers bypassed National Institutes of Health (NIH) safeguards to obtain data on children though they were ineligible.
The ABCD Study, begun in 2015, featured a cartoon of a Black child saying scientists kept his information safe.
Mainstream geneticists called the work biased and unscientific, prompting tool Grok to cite papers over two dozen times this month.