CATTELL,RAYMOND,B. AND THE 4TH INQUISITION

Raymond B. Cattell was selected to receive the Gold Medal Award for Li fe Achievement from the American Psychological Foundation. The award c eremony was canceled at the last minute when threats were made to disr upt the Chicago convention of the APA amid charges that Cattell's work was racist. It took only two political activists to derail the APE. T his event is analyzed as an instance of Inquisitional attack on ration al thought and inquiry, in the context of modem liberalism with radica l egalitarianism.