I've never heard that say of Binet. But it doesn't matter. Ideas don't inherit morality. It's their application that counts. Pythagoras had some really outlandish ideas. But the formula holds.

I meant Lewis Terman.

"He is best known for his revision of the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales and for initiating the longitudinal study of children with high IQs called the Genetic Studies of Genius."

Just from spending 20 seconds on his Wiki page.

He is clearly not the original inventor.