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This letter briefs the media misrepresentation of intelligence research. Intelligence research has a long history of controversy. Unlike most academics, scientists in this field often find themselves in the court of public opinion merely for carrying out their work, largely or entirely because their findings have a tendency to collide with certain deeply held moral and political beliefs. Politicized outrage about certain findings in intelligence research, and therefore the Gould Effect, is unfortunately unlikely to abate. To some on the political left (from whom the preponderance of criticism originates), the scientific findings of intelligence research will forever constitute junk science at best and system-justifying elitism and racism at worst.(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)