The big news in the past year in the world of Steven Pinker the Intellectual Dark Web and race pseudoscience was the revelation that Peter Thiel has funded - and likely still does, the leading mouthpiece of the Intellectual Dark web (according to Bari Weiss) - the far-right racist Quillette.
This was bookended by Peter Thiel's keynote speech a few weeks ago, for the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference, AKA Peter Thiel's CPAC for racists. Thanks to the appearance of Amy Wax at the conference, it was crystal clear that the Freedom the conference means is the freedom to be a public racist.
Meanwhile, Thiel's old business partner Elon Musk is on track to destroy Twitter, which, much like the twin towers of the World Trade Center, won't really be appreciated until it's gone.
More items of interest in the past year:
- Confirmation that E. O. Wilson, founder of sociobiology, aided and abetted racist Jean-Phillippe Rushton in a way that very much reminds me of the way Steven Pinker has promoted the careers of racists Steve Sailer and Razib Khan.
- James Lindsay was kicked off Twitter for being a neo-Nazi. Then it turned out that the would-be assassin of Nancy Pelosi was a big fan of Lindsay.
- Two people associated with Harvard University, Larry Summers and Carole Hooven each expressed their support for neo-Nazi racist Bo Winegard.
- I began posting some items from Pinkerite to Medium, including my proposal for taking out the trash on Stone Mountain
- Jon Stewart gave Andrew Sullivan an appropriately bad time about Sullivan's claims about "Black culture."
- I finally became aware of the racism-friendly International Society for Intelligence Research
The top most-visited posts this year:
- The appalling race pseudoscience career of Razib Khan - 1.51K
- Perjurer & racist Emil O W Kirkegaard comes for me - 1.4K
- Timothy B. Lee of Full Stack Economics and the career of Razib Khan - 1.06K
- Is Peter Thiel a babbling lunatic? - 846
- Steven Pinker, Steve Sailer and the Cousin Marriage Conundrum part 1 - 732
- PZ Myers dissects evolutionary psychology: brief, sharp and fabulous - 544 (third year in a row in the top 10)
- Scary rightwing anti-democratic Quillette-funding Peter Thiel - 482
- Unz Foundation grants to Gregory Cochran, Steve Sailer and Razib Khan - 430
- Jerry Coyne learns who J. Phillippe Rushton was, Kathryn Paige Harden denies being an hereditarian, E. O. Wilson was a racist - 397
- Peter Thiel's CPAC for racists - 396
