Matt Walsh told his audience that anonymous surveys show more than 80% of experts agree genes play a non-trivial role in average race differences in intelligence.

One survey does. It is 86 answers out of roughly 1,237 researchers contacted - and the man who compiled the survey table reports the real range as 14% to 84%, average 45%. Verdict: mostly-false, truth score 0.25, confidence 0.85.

The claim: The Matt Walsh Show, Ep. 1823, "Cambridge's DEI Superstar Was A Serial Liar, Plagiarist & Hate Hoaxer," published 17 August 2026, at 56:42.

The strongest version of Walsh's side is real and we give it room. Rindermann, Becker and Coyle (2020, Intelligence) found roughly 84% of the 86 researchers who answered their US Black-White IQ gap item attributed at least some of the gap to genes, mean estimate about 47-49% genetic. A 2016  ...