[[File:WSJ-Gottfredson.png|thumb|The article as it appeared in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' on Tuesday, December 13, 1994]]
"'''Mainstream Science on Intelligence'''" was a public statement issued by a group of academic researchers in fields associated with intelligence testing that claimed to present those findings widely accepted in the expert community. It was originally published in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' on December 13, 1994, as a response to what the authors viewedclaimed as thewere inaccurate and misleading reports made by the media regarding academic consensus on the results of intelligence research in the wake of the appearance of ''[[The Bell Curve]]'' by [[Richard Herrnstein]] and [[Charles Murray (political scientist)|Charles Murray]] earlier the same year. It was drafted by professor of [[educational psychology]] [[Linda Gottfredson]], sent to 131 researchers,<ref name="Gottfredson 1997 17–20"/> and signed by 52 university professors described as "experts in intelligence and allied fields", including around one third of the editorial board of the journal ''[[Intelligence (journal)|Intelligence]]'',<ref name="intelligence">[http://www.personalityresearch.org/journals/intelligence.html Editorial Board.] ''Intelligence: A Multidisciplinary Journal''</ref> in which it was subsequently reprinted in 1997. The 1997 editorial prefaced a special volume of ''Intelligence'' with contributions from a wide array of psychologists.
The statement was controversial because it concurred with many findings described in ''The Bell Curve'', and some readers took it to suggest that genetic differences contribute to racial differences in IQ scores.
