Pix from the Manhattan No Kings march

 

Neil DeGrass Tyson makes a great point about "hypothetical Black racist anthropologists"

This has crossed my mind too - I'm glad Neil Degrass Tyson is saying it. Transcript below the video.

I once pointed out to professional racist Steve Sailer that there's a good possibility that his ancestors had sex with Neanderthals. He immediately blocked me.

NOTE: on the page I link to, I use the term "Northern Superiority Hypothesis" because I did not know at the time there was already an established name for it: "Cold Winters Hypothesis." I've learned so much from doing this blog. Charles Murray could be seen promoting that "theory" because Murray, a political scientist, is a leading light of race pseudoscience.

My ancestors are just as likely to have had sex with Neanderthals as Sailer's were, but that doesn't bother me. Except the possibility of a close relationship to a marketing guy who became famous by being horrible and wrong for his entire career.

What Tyson doesn't explicitly say - in this clip at least - is that once it was apparent that white people had Neanderthal DNA, scientists started to think maybe Neanderthals were smart. 

But smart or stupid, the fact is that Neanderthals are extinct and so from an hereditarian perspective, genetic losers in the survival of the fittest contest. Which means White people (and Asians) are related to an evolutionary dead end. Another inconvenient truth for racist hereditarians to ignore or explain away.

 

TRANSCRIPT

TYSON: Suppose anthropologists were Black racists instead of White racists. What would they write? Hypothetical Black racist anthropologists:

"Chimps and other apes grow hair all over their bodies. The hairiest people you've ever seen have been white people. Distinct from their face, hands and feet. Part the hair of most chimpanzees, the way they do to each other when checking for lice and their skin color is white, not any shade of black or brown. Ever hear of a lice outbreak among black children? White children are 30 times more susceptible to lice infestation than are black children. The parasite simply likes to lay eggs in the hair of chimpanzees and White people more than on the hair of Black people."

For most of the 20th century Neanderthals were portrayed as stupid and brutish. Turns out, beginning in the 1990s, genetic research revealed that Europeans are between 1 and 3% Neanderthal, Africans 0%. This goes on. This is what we were doing as humans to each other, not recognizing authentic diversity and who and what we are.

It's time to say it out loud - Steven Pinker is a racist - a shameless racist

Steven Pinker has been called many things during the years of his fame.

A "celebrity intellectual" by the New York Times.

"The World's Most Annoying Man" by Nathan J. Robinson.

"A weasel" by me.

But it's time for another word to describe Pinker and he's been working towards it for about the last quarter-century, since at least when he was helping to promote the career of professional racist Steve Sailer. 

Pinker and Quillette founder Claire Lehmann at the "Heterodox" conference
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As already established, Steven Pinker is utterly shameless, so it's no surprise to see him following up his appearance on the neo-Nazi Aporia magazine podcast with his participation at the "inaugural Heterodox Conference" which wraps up today.

Just about every single person at this conference has a connection to Aporia, Quillette, the far right, (MAGA Christopher Rufo,) or has become famous for sexual harassment like Lawrence Krauss and Joshua Katz. Plus that idiot Yascha Mounk of the reactionary-infested Persuasion. 

And of course the Intellectual Dark Web, including named member, and complete racist Michael Shermer, good personal friend of Steven Pinker.

The conference was organized by Eric Kaufmann, a member of racist extremist Richard Hanania's think tank. Which makes me think that Hanania funded this conference, but considering how many people at the conference have worked for or with Emil Kirkegaard via Aporia and other outlets of Polygenic Scores (formerly Human Diversity Foundation) Kirkegaard is also a suspect.

And Jonathan Anomaly, eugenics huckster, and SLAPP suit plaintiff, was also there.

The Guardian took notice of Pinker's close alliance with racists today in its article, Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism, writing:

The Harvard psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker appeared on the podcast of Aporia, an outlet whose owners advocate for a revival of race science and have spoken of seeking “legitimation by association” by platforming more mainstream figures.

I had to laugh at "legitimation by association." Pinker and his sociobiology sympathizers like Abdel Abdellaoui like to cry "guilt by association" whenever their connections to racists are mentioned, so it's great to see Pinker's racist buddies admit they do exactly what I've always accused them of doing - using Steve Pinker, celebrity intellectual, in their campaign to mainstream race pseudoscience.

More from the article:

Patrik Hermansson, a researcher at UK anti-racism non-profit Hope Not Hate, said that Pinker’s “decision to appear on Aporia, a far-right platform for scientific racism, provides an invaluable service to an extremist outlet by legitimising its content and attracting new followers”.
He added: “By lending his Harvard credentials to Aporia, Pinker contributes to the normalisation and spread of dangerous, discredited ideas.”

That was always the plan - to mainstream race pseudoscience. That's why Quillette recruited Pinker to write for them. 

After decades of Steven Pinker promoting race pseudoscience it's time to find Steven Pinker guilty of racism.

That Murderbot - still gloriously woke

I usually avoid writing personal things on Pinkerite - I have another blog for topics that are not related to Steven Pinker, the Intellectual Dark Web and Race (pseudo)Science, but I felt justified writing a post on Pinkerite about Murderbot because it is gloriously woke.

That was back in 2023. But now there's a Murderbot TV series and it, too, is gloriously woke. While still having a lot of guns.

It was such a thrill to see much of the first book in the Murderbot Diaries series brought to life. The book series is exciting (which is why I've listened to it on audio at least five times all the way through) and it was smart of the TV show producers to trust the original source material and not make too many changes. 

And most of the changes they did make are great - like showing snippets from "The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon" - which now has a theme song - and a scene, not in the series, in which Murderbot hallucinates it's a character on Sanctuary Moon. So great.

And I'm so happy for author Martha Wells, who has toiled in the field of genre fiction for decades without making much headway, and then suddenly she had a massive hit. Wells is around the same age as me, which makes her, according to some behavioral geneticists, an "old white lady."

It seems unlikely that the racists I write about on Pinkerite would like the Murderbot universe, given that it is so woke, but maybe they'll like the TV series because although Wells imagined Murderbot with medium-dark skin, Alexander Skarsgård, the Swedish actor playing the character in the series, is pretty pale. All those racists adore "Western Civilization" and have a fetish for whiteness and blondness.

But the Preservation Aux crew of the TV series is exactly as described in the books - which is to say, an absolute nightmare for racists.

The Preservation Aux team - the only white-ish person here is Guarathin, far back center.

Martha Wells is on Bluesky and if you are too, you should follow her. 

Curtis Yarvin and race pseudoscience and the Intellectual Dark Web

Khan and "close friend" Yarvin, together again
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With Steven Pinker going full neo-nazi it's hard to keep up with everything else that's going on in the world of the race pseudoscience, especially because race pseudoscience is welcomed by the Trump administration. 

The New Yorker has just published an article about Curtis Yarvin. 

The end of the article describes Yarvin & friends visiting the castle of Renaud Camus, the "you will not replace us" guy - from whence Heather "great replacement" Mac Donald gets her nickname. 

And just this month, white supremacist Douglas Murray, named member of the Intellectual Dark Web, who writes for Bari Weiss's "Free Press" wrote an admiring article about Camus for New Criterion,

Murray's article is titled "The crime of noticing."

As the Atlantic wrote in August 2024 in the article The Far Right is Becoming Obsessed With Race and IQ (my highlight):

“Joining us now is Steve Sailer, who I find to be incredibly interesting, and one of the most talented noticers,” Charlie Kirk said on his internet show in October. Kirk, the 30-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, a right-wing youth organization, slowed down as he said “noticers,” looked up at the camera, and coyly flicked his eyebrows. 

 

That term—noticer—has become a thinly veiled shorthand within segments of the right to refer to someone who subscribes to “race science” or “race realism,” the belief that racial inequities are biological. In his interview with Kirk, Sailer noticed that “Blacks tend to commit murder about 10 times as often per capita as whites, and it’s not just all explained by poverty.” Sailer, one of the most prominent peddlers of race science in the United States, has made a career out of noticing things. (Last year, he published an anthology of his writing titled Noticing.) He has claimed that Black people tend to have lower IQs than white people (while Asians and Ashkenazi Jews tend to have higher IQs). Sailer says that nurture plays a role, but generally concludes that differences between racial groups exist in large part because of inherent traits.

The end of the New Yorker article describes Yarvin meeting Camus, and Camus's response:

When Yarvin and Camus went on ahead, the filmmakers paused to assess the day’s shoot. Brun said that Yarvin reminded him of the long-winded character in “Airplane!” who talks so incessantly that it drives his seatmates to kill themselves. We wondered what Camus was making of the afternoon. It wasn’t long before we found out. “If intellectual exchanges were commercial exchanges—which they are, to a certain extent—the amount of my exports would not reach one per cent of that of my imports,” Camus wrote in his diary, which he posted online the following day. “The visitor spoke without interruption from his arrival to his departure, for five hours, very quickly and very loudly, interrupting himself only for curious fits of tears, when he spoke of his deceased wife, but also, more strangely, certain political situations.” 

 

It was dark by the time we all returned to the château. “Thank you so much for your hospitality and your duck and your castle,” Yarvin said, looking around. “How much money did you spend on it?”  

 

Lovingly squeezing Yarvin’s arm, Kristine (Yarvin's wife) said, “You can’t just ask people that!”
Camus gave Yarvin some of his books as souvenirs, but Yarvin’s mind already seemed elsewhere. Tomorrow, he would fly to Paris to meet with a group of red-pilled Zoomers and Éric Zemmour, a far-right polemicist who once ran to be the President of France. 

 

As we headed to the car, Yarvin was buzzing with boyish excitement about his performance. He turned to me and the filmmakers. “Was that good?” he asked. “Was that good?”

Yarvin is clearly an emotionally volatile, far-right extremist nut job, which explains why fascist freaks like Marc Andreeessen and Peter Thiel love him.

Although Yarvin tried to be discreet, he mentioned that Thiel has a bit of a “weirdo edge” and described Andreessen, the venture capitalist, as someone who, “apart from the bizarre and possibly even nonhuman shape of his head, would seem much more normal than Peter.” After Andreessen invested in Yarvin’s startup, Tlon, the two got to know each other; they texted and went to brunch long before Andreessen came out as a Trump supporter, last year. Andreessen has been known to urge his associates to read Yarvin’s blog. “Tech people are not interested in appeals to virtue or beauty or tradition, like most conservatives,” the State Department official said. “They are more like right-wing progressives, and for a long time Moldbug was the only person speaking to them this way.” (Andreessen and Thiel declined to comment.) 

Thiel is alleged to have funded racist Quillette, and Andreessen is a subscriber to the Neo-Nazi Jolly Heretic. Both have funded Trump.

And our old racist pals Razib Khan and Steve Sailer are mentioned in the article:

In person, as in print, Yarvin expresses himself with imperious self-assurance. He is nearly impossible to interrupt. “When the rabbi is speaking, you let the rabbi speak,” Razib Khan, a right-wing science blogger and a close friend of Yarvin’s, told me... 

 

...Now, wearing his leather jacket, he glared out at the reader through stylishly tousled hair. His friend Steve Sailer, a writer for white-nationalist websites, said he looked like “the fifth Ramone.”

Khan was recently expressing his hatred for NYTimes op-ed columnist Jamelle Bouie, again.

And Yarvin echoes Richard Haier in the article:

To keep the “ghetto Blacks” in line, he went on, they should be forced to live in a “traditional way,” like Orthodox Jews or the Amish. “The approach that the twentieth century took is, if we could just make the schools good enough, they would all turn into Unitarians,” he said. “If you’ve seen ‘The Wire’ and lived in Baltimore, both of which I have, that does not seem to work at all.” It wasn’t until he reached the end of his speech, ten minutes later, that I realized he was, in his own way, addressing my initial question. “Unless we can totally reëngineer DNA to change what a human being is, there are many people who should not live in a modern way but in a traditional way,” he concluded. “And that is a level of revolution that is so far beyond anything the Trump-Vance regime is doing.”

Like Richard Haier, Yarvin doesn't think environment matters at all. As Haier told Stefan Molyneux:

Not many people are talking about manipulating genes that raise IQ. This is not really a public conversation, and to the extent it is, it's usually framed in some negative context of eugenics or or racism or or or or something like that.[62]

This fully aligns with behavioral genetics. And Razib Khan is not only a friend of Curtis Yarvin, he is a friend of Abdel Abdellaoui, one of the co-authors of Adam Rutherford's recent behavioral genetics paper Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences. I wrote about the many connections between authors of the paper and racists here.

Richard Haier is no longer an editor at the journal "Intelligence," so he and some racist pals  - all associated with the International Society for Intelligence Research - started a new publication that will no doubt welcome race pseudoscience. More about that soon.

Steven Pinker appears on a neo-Nazi podcast

The second time Pinker has used his "celebrity intellectual" status to promote neo-Nazi media
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I just mentioned in the last post that Steven Pinker has a byline in Aporia magazine, which is owned by neo-Nazi weirdo Emil Kirkegaard. Read more about Kirkegaard's neo-Nazi organization - including Aporia, in the Hope not hate article Race Science, Inc.

I created this handy diagram, using a lot of the information from the article. Click to enlarge. Text for the diagram on this post.

And now Pinker has appeared on the Aporia podcast, featured on Youtube.

Bluesky noticed.

Pinker is absolutely shameless.

As I say in my "who is behind Pinkerite?" page:

Fun fact: Steven Pinker is one of Emil Kirkegaard's influences. And in turn, Pinker uses the force of his "celebrity intellectual" status to promote the career of Razib Khan and the Substack-platformed neo-Nazi Aporia Magazine. 

The big question is why does Pinker, who is Jewish (although an atheist), promote a neo-Nazi media outlet?

My guess is that he is such a true believer, even evangelist, for race pseudoscience that he'll promote an organization devoted to race pseudoscience even if it includes neo-Nazis. 

And it is not hyperbole to use the term "neo-Nazi" to describe Aporia. As the Hope not Hate investigative report concluded about Aporia's parent organization: "HDF is working to create a cult of weapons-trained activists inspired by Scientology and the Nazi SS."

Clearly Steven Pinker has no qualms about promoting a neo-Nazi organization. 

After the exposé - who worked for Emil Kirkegaard after the Hope not hate exposé? Besides Steven Pinker.

I've been writing about who works for neo-Nazi Emil Kirkegaard, based on reporting from the UK organization Hope not hate, primarily from their exposé Race Science Inc. 

And exciting news - the undercover reporter of the exposé, Harry Shukman, published a book about his experience.

Based on that Hope not hate article, I wrote: Who works for Emil Kirkegaard and HDF, the new Pioneer Fund? 

(HDF changed its name to Polygenic Scores LLC.)

Next I looked at the archives of both Aporia and The Jolly Heretic and based on those, complied a list of contributors in So who ELSE works for Emil Kirkegaard and HDF (aka POLYGENIC SCORES LLC), the new Pioneer Fund?

However, I limited the list of contributors to only those who worked for Emil Kirkegaard before the Hope not Hate exposé. Because some of those people (obviously not Amy Wax, Jared Taylor, Charles Murray, etc.) have plausible deniability: maybe they didn't know how extremely racists those media outlets are, and maybe they didn't know those media outlets are owned by Kirkegaard since at least March 2023, and maybe they did not even know who Kirkegaard is.

But those who contributed to Aporia and/or the Jolly Heretic after the exposé have much less plausible deniability. 

Because not only did the Guardian publish an article about the Hope not hate report "Race Science Inc.," but both Aporia and the Jolly Heretic published responses. Aporia's editors Bo Winegard and Noah Carl also got together to bitch and whine about the investigation on Aporia in November 2024.

So those listed below, who contributed after the exposé, are either idiots, or they likely agree with - or at the very least are untroubled by - the racism and neo-Nazi ambitions of Emil Kirkegaard. And yes, this list does include Steven Pinker.

Aaron Dymarskiy - some guy with a Substack wrote an article for Aporia claiming anti-Black discrimination hasn't really been so bad after all.

Alden Whitfeld - an anti-democracy creep with a Substack, wrote an article for Aporia.

Alex Kashuta -  Interviewed for Aporia before and after the exposé.

Arctotherium - "is a writer concerned with the future. You can read more of his writings at his blog" - published an article for Aporia. And another. And another. Yes and another. And another. This one makes six. This one is seven.

Auron MacIntyre - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic - again.

Ava Holland - some rando, interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Aydin Paladin - real name Rebekah Ford, Trump supporter - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Benjamin Boyce - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Bernard Randall - anti-trans, interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Callum - some Youtuber - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Calvin Robinson - rightwing priest - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Catherine Blaiklock - British politician, interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Charlie Bentley-Astor - famous in England. Interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Craig Willy - some guy with a Substack who is apparently a proponent of evolutionary psychology - or perhaps a eugenicist. So why not write for Aporia before AND after the exposé, twice.

Connie Shaw - anti-trans - interviewed for Jolly Heretic and again.

Daniel Hess - apparently some guy with an X/Twitter account, interviewed for Aporia, and wrote an article for Aporia.

David Geary - "Bo is joined by David Geary, an evolutionary psychologist" - enough said. Geary is not only an evolutionary psychology crackpot, he is a bigwig at the International Society for Intelligence Research, co-authored the usual hereditarian dreck with the Winegard twins, interviewed by Bo Winegard for Aporia after the exposé.

David Green - some guy with a Substack - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

David Sun - some guy, associated with a sketchy-looking organization "Seeds of Science," wrote an article for Aporia.

Davide Piffer - "independent researcher" mentioned in the Race Science Inc. exposé. Interviewed for Aporia after the exposé. 

Douglass Carswell - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Elizabeth Heverin - somebody with a Substack, interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Elizabeth Weiss - former wife of J. Philippe Rushton, published an article in Aporia related to her ongoing battle with Native Americans and gave an interview to Aporia on the same subject after the exposé was published.

Frank Salter - I thought his name looked familiar - he used to be with the Max Planck Institute and Steve Sailer used him as a source for his crappy piece of crap "The Cousin Marriage Conundrum" - wrote an article for Aporia.

Frithric - "an anonymous writer interested in learning the true mechanisms behind developing political, cultural and legislative trends" - wrote an article for Aporia.

Gerard Batten - British politician - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Godfrey Bloom - British politician - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

James Weitz - somebody with a Substack, wrote an article for Aporia.

Jared Taylor - nobody was surprised that he was interviewed for the Jolly Heretic after the exposé.

Jess Gill - second appearance on Jolly Heretic.

Joshua Tyber - "Much of his research focuses on the evolutionary psychology - " enough said. Interviewed for Aporia.

Kate Barr - some Youtuber - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Katie Fanning - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Liminal Revolutions - anonymous Substacker wrote an article for Aporia.

Lipton Matthews - a hereditarian and Holocaust denier, previously wrote for Aporia and Jolly Heretic, wrote one, two, three, four, five, six, seven articles after the éxpose. Also a review of a book by "biosocial criminologist" Anthony Walsh. And another book review. Also gave an interview to Aporia

Momus Najmi - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Nathan Cofnas - Appeared on the Aporia podcast several times, his post-exposé article for Aporia is "Is wokeness just beginning?"

Nicholas Agar - transhumanist, interviewed for Aporia podcast before the exposé, wrote an article for Aporia after the exposé.

Nick Fuentes - white nationalist, interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Nina Power - right-winger, appeared with Connie Shaw for an interview for Jolly Heretic. And then appeared again solo in Joly Heretic and gave an interview to Diana Fleishman in Aporia. 

Paul Golding - British fascist, interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Paul Taylor (Dr.) - some guy from Liverpool, interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Peter Frost - also authored articles for the Unz Review and for OpenPsych. Published in Aporia before the exposé, then wrote one, two, three, four, five post-exposé articles.

Phillipe Lemoine -  has worked for Richard Hanania's organization, interviewed for Aporia.

Piotr Pachota - "an armchair evolutionary psychologist" - enough said. Interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Raj Persuade (Dr.) - "celebrity psychiatrist" interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Randall Bock - anti-vaxxer wrote an article for Aporia.

Richard Braine - British politician - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Richard Cooper - appears to be a professional misogynist. Interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Robert Kurzban - "an American freelance writer and former psychology professor specializing in evolutionary psychology -" - enough said. Published in Aporia.

Rosie Kay - anti-trans choreographer, interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Seb Jensen - a pseudonym - has written for OpenPsych. His article for Aporia is "Autism is Bad."

Simon Laird - said this about crazed anti-Semite Candace Owens: "...I think that Candace Owens is a positive development for the media landscape and the culture in general." Wrote for Aporia before and after the exposé.

Simon Maass - right-winger who takes extremist racist J. Phillippe Rushton seriously. Wrote an article for Aporia before the exposé and another after the exposé.

Steven Pinker - yes Steven Pinker, the New York Times' beloved "celebrity intellectual," the Guardian's own twinkling blue-eyed rock star. Steven Pinker is possessed of an infinitely spinning moral compass, and so he published an article in Aporia after the exposé.

Tade Souaiaia - published in Aporia after the exposé, plus appeared on a Razib Khan podcast.

Thierry Baudet - Dutch far-right politician - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Ubersoy - some anonymous rando with a Substack, "a right-wing progressive interested in cultivating alternative frameworks of thought on the right." Wrote an article for Aporia.

William Cloustin - British politician - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Zach Goldberg -  “wokeness studies” scholar and former fellow of the Manhattan Institute."  Enough said. Interviewed for Aporia.

Year of the Rat - the new book by a Hope not hate undercover journalist

Harry Shukman has just published a book, Year of the Rat, about his work for Hope not hate infiltrating the international far-right racist network, very much including Emil Kirkegaard's publications and "research."

The Guardian published an excerpt: 

 

I asked Frost about the underground research team that he had mentioned last time. He told me it is run by Emil Kirkegaard, a race science advocate I saw in Tallinn but did not meet. Kirkegaard, who is Danish and looks to be in his late 30s, has a reputation as perhaps the most active writer in the race science world today. 

 

I noticed that Frost talked about “our organisation”, instead of just Aporia. I asked what the difference was, and he explained that Kirkegaard was in charge of an LLC, a limited liability company, registered in the US, in a state with helpful privacy laws. Frost indicated that the LLC had received more than £1m from a mystery investor, roughly a 10% stake. I name-dropped a couple of American billionaires known for investing in far-right projects, just to see if it would elicit a response, but Frost stayed tight-lipped, except to say that when he met him in Vienna in June to raise more money, the funder was “in a down period” due to negative press. Who was he? Despite Frost’s indiscretion until now, I sensed that this was a detail he would not divulge, and decided not to press him further. 

Frost talked about how the 10-man underground research team publishes articles on race science online and in academic journals, which Aporia then promotes. He described himself simply as the pursuer of truth, as many race scientists do. “You’ve been telling us for over half a century that it’s evil, but it’s true,” he said. “I personally think it’s immoral to bury your head in the sand.” (Frost told the Guardian he did not hold far-right views. He announced his departure from Aporia in August last year. However, he said in his announcement that he would not entirely quit. “I’ll still write the occasional piece and host meet-ups,” he wrote.) 

Nervous but determined to pin him down, I told Frost that what he had built sounded like a version of the Pioneer Fund. To my surprise, he agreed. He even said that Pioneer’s remaining money had been inherited by Kirkegaard, who is now using it to power his new company: the Human Diversity Foundation. (Kirkegaard maintains that his politics are not “far right” but “heterodox”.) 

Later, Frost recounted a conversation he had with his business partner Erik Ahrens. Ahrens is a communications expert with the AfD in Germany. Both hope that if the AfD gets into power, it will enforce remigration, a euphemistic term for mass deportations. “Imagine if Germany did that,” Frost said in a hushed, animated voice. He said he told Ahrens: “It’s your fucking duty to do this.” (Frost said he had parted ways with Ahrens in December 2023 after becoming aware “of our divergent political views”.) 

Frost fantasised about filling ships with people and manoeuvring them to Morocco, and forcing the government there to receive human cargo: “We’re smarter than you, we’re bigger than you: you’re going to do this.” His eyes were shining with enthusiasm. “Imagine that this happened in the next 10, 15 years; what that would do for the west, for Europe.”
The bill arrived, and Frost said he had another meeting to dash off to. Once he had gone, I phoned Hermansson to relay the details. The Pioneer Fund isn’t back, I told him. It never went away. It has rebranded, reformed and gone into hiding as a private company, its projects more nimble now they have moved into the dark.

Unfortunately the article doesn't mention that Human Diversity Foundation was renamed Polygenic Scores, LLC. 

Matthew Frost is described in the Hope not Hate article Race Science Inc.:

Matthew Frost is another key figure in HDF. He is a former religious studies teacher at Kensington Park School, a private institution, in west London. Frost, who goes by the name Matt Archer, is the founder of Aporia. He has also attended the clandestine London Conference on Intelligence, a gathering of scientific racists and eugenicists that was formerly held at UCL, and in 2023 and 2024 was organised in Budapest.

Frost/Archer founded a Substack called "Ideas Sleep Furiously" which was taken over by Aporia in March 2023. 

In the next post I will be listing those who have contributed to Aporia and the Jolly Heretic after the Hope not hate exposé, and the responses, were published.

Razib Khan & Emil Kirkegaard & Behavioral Genetics

Razib Khan and his obvious alliance with
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As I've documented in my 9-part series "What happened to Adam Rutherford?" there are many connections between race pseudoscience and behavioral genetics. 

For example, Abdel Abdellaoui, leading promoter of behavioral genetics, made a small splash by objecting to Emil Kirkegaard, a promoter of race pseudoscience, being allowed to participate in the annual meetings of the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) a few years ago. Abdellaoui wrote:

A few colleagues warned me beforehand that ISIR was regarded by some to be a controversial society, because it also attracted some malevolent figures that were a little too interested in race differences in IQ. Like flies to a picnic. I do notice their presence and usually try to ignore them.

Sounds great - except that Abdel Abdellaoui is a friend of Razib Khan, a career-long promoter of race pseudoscience.

Not only did Khan testify to their friendship, but you can see Abdellaoui and Khan (and assorted racists) teaming up to come after me for daring to write about the indisputable connections between promoters of race pseudoscience and of behavioral genetics.

And Khan appeared on the Aporia magazine podcast in 2022 - Aporia is owned by Kirkegaard, and as if that wasn't enough, Khan promoted Aporia very recently - May 16 - on his own Substack.

Promoters of race pseudoscience and promoters of behavioral genetics make strange bedfellows. 

But they are definitely bedfellows no matter how much Adam Rutherford and Kathryn Paige Harden pretend they are not.

UPDATE - more evidence of the race pseudoscience/behavioral genetics interconnections. Abdel Abellaoui retweets Rosalind Arden and Steven Hsu. Abellaoui seems to have a mutual admiration thing going on with both of them. 

Rosalind Arden is a Quillete contributor, ISIR board member and Arthur Jensen fangirl; and Steven Hsu is a "race is biological" guy, a position that Abdellaoui's co-author Adam Rutherford opposes. Note that Hsu references Razib Khan's blog, Gene Expression (GNXP) in his post about his race claims. Hsu was interviewed by Aporia.

Abdellaoui claims not to be a racist so it's amazing how many racists he has befriended and promoted and worked with.

In the paper that Arden references, Robust inference and widespread genetic correlates from a large-scale genetic association study of human personality, there are a significant number of participants of ISIR meetings - highlighted. 

I bolded the people who claim to be non-racists, but clearly they have no qualms about working with racists - and of course both Harden and Abdellaoui have participated in ISIR meetings. This is probably a fairly accurate representation of the percentage of promoters of race pseudoscience who are part of the field of behavioral genetics.

Ted Schwaba, Margaret L. Clapp Sullivan, Wonuola A. Akingbuwa, Kerli IIves, Peter T. Tanksley, Camille M.Williams, Yavor Dragostinov, Wangjingyi Liao, Lindsay S. Ackerman, Josephine C. M. Fealy, Gibran Hemani, Javier de la Fuente, Priya Gupta, Murray B. Stein, Joel Gelernter, Daniel F. Levey, Urmo Võsa, Liisi Ausmees, Anu Realo, Estonian Biobank Research Team, Mariliis Vaht, Jüri Allik, Tönu Esko, René Mõttus, Uku Vainik, Gudrun A. Jonsdottir, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Árni Freyr Gunnarsson, Gyda Bjornsdottir, Thorgeir E. Thorgeirsson, Hreinn Stefansson, Kari Stefansson, Rosa Cheesman, Qi Qin, Elizabeth C. Corfield, Helga Ask, Fartein Ask Torvik, Eivind Ystrom, Martin Tesli, Dorret I. Boomsma, Eco J. C. de Geus, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Dener Cardoso Melo, Harold Snieder, Catharina A. Hartman, Charley Xia, Archie Campbell, Michelle Luciano, lan J. Deary, W. David Hill, Seon-Kyeong Jang, Scott I.Vrieze, Gonçalo Abecasis, Michelle K. Lupton, Brittany L Mitchell, Petra V. Viher, Lucía Colodro-Conde, Nicholas G. Martin, Sarah E. Medland, Eske M. Derks, Briar Wormington, Jaakko Kaprio, Karri Silventoinen, Teemu Palviainen, Agnieszka Gidziela, Kaili Rimfeld, Robert Plomin, Margherita Malanchini, Danielle M. Dick, Fazil Aliev, COGA Collaborators, The Spit for Science Working Group, Laura W.Wesseldijk, Fredrik Ullén, Miriam A. Mosing, Henry R. Kranzler, Yaira Nunez, Sarah Beck, Renato Polimanti, Tobias Edwards, Alexandros Giannelis, Emily A. Willoughby, James J. Lee, Matt McGue, Antonio Terracciano, Michele Marongiu, Edoardo Fiorillo, Francesco Cucca, Angelina R. Sutin, Peter J. van der Most, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Tina Kretschmer, Andrey A. Shabalin, Anna R. Docherty, Robert F. Krueger, Colin D. Freilich, Binisha H. Mishra, Terho Lehtimäki, Olli T. Raitakari, Mika Kähönen, Aino Saarinen, Henrik Dobewall, Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen, Klaus Berger, Marisol Herrera-Rivero, Fabian Streit, Swapnil Awasthi, Stephanie H. Witt, Johanna Tuhkanen, Katri Räikkönen, Johan G. Eriksson, Jari Lahti, Gail Davies, Paul Redmond, Adele Taylor, Janie Corley, Tom C. Russ, Marina Ciullo, Teresa Nutile, Jun Ding, Yong Qian, Toshiko Tanaka, Luigi Ferrucci, Lea Zillich, Lea Sirignano, K. Paige Harden, Erhan Genç, Patrick D. Gajewski, Stephan Getzmann, Christoph Fraenz, Javier E. Schneider Peñate, Stefanie Lis, Alisha S. M. Hall, Christian Schmahl, Sabine C. Herpertz, Abdel Abdellaoui, Michel G. Nivard, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob

I should have thought to do a search on Rosalind Arden and Abdel Abdellaoui before. Now that I finally have, I see Abdellaoui has co-authored a paper with Arden.  And based on her photo, I don't think Arden is much younger, if at all, than me. I wonder if Abdellaoui considers her an "old white lady."

He's also coauthored a paper with Stuart Ritchie, anti-trans activist who has published in Quillette. 

The first Memorial Day as told by historian David Blight

The repercussions of slavery and the Civil War and the anti-Black terrorism afterwards are still with us today. But let's take a moment to remember how the freed people honored the soldiers who fought and died for their freedom.

So who ELSE works for Emil Kirkegaard and HDF (aka POLYGENIC SCORES LLC), the new Pioneer Fund?

In a previous post I discussed the findings of the Hope not Hate organization about who works for Emil Kirkegaard and his neo-Nazi organization, Human Diversity Foundation - which has recently been renamed Polygenic Scores LLC.

In this post we'll talk about all the rest of those who have worked for Kirkegaard via  Aporia and The Jolly Heretic.

After going through the content of both Aporia and the Jolly Heretic, I noticed two major differences: the Jolly Heretic is more obviously racist, and right from the jump, interviewing infamous ghouls like Peter Brimelow and Jared Taylor in its first year. And the second difference is that the Jolly Heretic is much more focused on one person, Edward Dutton, who loves to post images of himself on the site. I guess Dutton thinks this is some kind of selling point. At the same time, Dutton has concerns about other people's narcissism. 

When I say "work for" I don't claim to know what compensation arrangements these individuals made with Kirkegaard's organization, and whether their connection is current or in the past. But I assume all received money or other forms of compensation to associate their names with Aporia or Jolly Heretic - in many cases both. 

The 139 names listed below are those who have contributed to Aporia and Jolly Heretic before the exposé from Hope not hate that made it undeniable that the two websites are Emil Kirikegaard-controlled neo-Nazi media outlets. 

Undeniable because Aporia published an article about the exposé. As did the Jolly Heretic.

Abel Dean - apparently some rando writing for Aporia: "Abel Dean has studied the psychology of intelligence and other social sciences for over ten years. He has university degrees in completely-unrelated fields: land surveying and hydrographic science (he fully agrees that you should not simply accept his opinions)."

Adam Smeester - a right-winger, judging by his X/Twitter feed. So a good fit for Aporia.

Adrian Wooldridge - a business columnist at Bloomberg. Interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Aella - appears to be a "cam girl." Interviewed for Aporia podcast.

Agnes Callard - interviewed for the Aporia podcast

Aldo Rustichini - is an hereditarian, judging who he likes to write papers with: members of the International Society for Intelligence Research: Emily Willoughby, James J. Lee, Matt McGue, and William G. Iacono. Wrote a "Critical Race Theory is bad" article for Aporia. 

Alex Christoyannopoulos (Dr.) - interviewed for Aporia podcast,

Alex Kashuta -  Interviewed for Aporia.

"Alexander" - "date psychology" guy. His Aporia article is the usual evolutionary psychology bullshit. Also interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Amy Gallagher - interviewed on Jolly Heretic.

Amy Wax - infamous racist. Bari Weiss' "The Free Press" is a supporter. Interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Andrew Collingwood - a British podcaster wrote this article for Aporia.

Andrew Cutler - some guy with a Substack wrote this for Aporia. Interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Andrew Gold - basically a gossip columnist, obsessed with Meghan Markle. Interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Anthony Magnabosco - interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Auron Macintyre - MAGA fascist. Nutty conspiracy theorist. Interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Ben Winegard - Bo's twin brother. They are both the worst.

Bryan Caplan - Cato Institute. Interviewed for Aporia.

Catherine Salmon - "...is an evolutionary psychology professor..." - enough said. Was interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Charles Murray - racist who has not only appeared on the Aporia podcast along with Helmuth Nyborg, but, by his own admission donated money to Kirkegaard and Winegard, and, confirmed by Bryan Pesta's testimony, donated money to Kirkegaard's organization.

Charles Veitch - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Christopher Badcock - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Christopher Rufo - MAGA ghoul, appeared on the Aporia podcast.

Colin Wright - like Christopher Rufo, obsessed with trans people. Appeared on the Aporia podcast.

Cory J. Clark - ugh - will be participating in the next annual meeting of the International Society for Intelligence Research. Appeared on the Aporia podcast.

Craig Willy - some guy with a Substack who is apparently a proponent of evolutionary psychology - or perhaps a eugenicist. So why not write for Aporia?

Curmudgeon’s Corner - "is the pseudonym of a writer with interests in AI and human intelligence."  More right-wing obsession over intelligence.

Curtis Dunkel, also writes for OpenPsych and Mankind Quarterly. Wrote the article "Does IQ alone explain Jewish success? for Aporia.

Curtis Yarvin - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Daniella Pentsak - MAGA extremist, interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

David Goodhart - appeared on the Aporia podcast 

David Starkey (Dr) - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Dimitri van der Linden - co-authored papers with Curtis Dunkel and Edward Dutton. Published an article for Aporia in August 2023.

Dominick Frisby - interviewed at Jolly Heretic.

Douglas Murray - white supremacist, named member of the Intellectual Dark Web, interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Ed West - rightwing guy with a Substack appeared on the Aporia podcast.

Elizabeth Weiss - former wife of J. Philippe Rushton, published an article in Aporia related to her ongoing battle with Native Americans.

Eric Kaufmann - interviewed on Aporia podcast and on the Jolly Heretic

Eric Schwitzgebel - interviewed for the Aporia podcast

Eugene M. McCarthy - the Jolly Heretic.

Father Frank Gelly - I think it's spelled "Gelli" - in Jolly Heretic.

Garett Jones, is Associate Professor of Economics and BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University, has written for City Journal. Interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Gary N. Marx - from the University of Melbourne wrote this for Aporia.

Gavan Tredoux adores ultra-racist Francis Galton and was interviewed about his love on the Aporia podcast.

George Francis -  has also written for OpenPsych. His article for Aporia argues that black men have the biggest penis size and Africa needs to manufacturer larger condoms.

Godfree Roberts - published in Aporia.

Graham Cunningham - the "imaginative conservative" - wrote an article for Aporia, Are We Making Progress?

Graham Linehan - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Greg Johnson - white nationalist - in Jolly Heretic.

Gregory Clark - a self-described hereditarian and Quillette author, his seriously flawed work is essential to both the Adam Rutherford paper "Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences" and to Kirkegaard's eugenics claims. Interviewed in Aporia, where he discusses the same claims cited by the Rutherford paper.

Gregory J. Feist - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Hannah Gal has also written for Quillette. Has written two articles for Aporia.

Heather Mac Donald - known to some as Heather "great replacement" Mac Donald was interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Helen Dale - interviewed for the Aporia podcast and wrote an article for Aporia. Also in Jolly Heretic.

Ichimoku Sanjin - I cannot discover anything about this person outside of his Aporia article. It says he has carried out research in evolutionary psychology. Enough said.

Ives Parr - an Arthur Jensen fan. He has written an article for Aporia titled "Hereditarian Hypotheses Aren't More Harmful."

J. Michael Bailey - anti-trans activitist, author of retracted work. Interviewed for the Aporia podcast and Jolly Heretic.

James Cussen - apparently a would-be philosopher with a Substack. The first to contribute to Aporia after Matthew Archer (Frost,) as far as I can tell.

James Thompson - ran the "London Conference on Intelligence" and has written for Mankind Quarterly. One of Thompson's articles for Aporia is titled "Why are black children 11 times more likely to be strip-searched?" In another article he argued that intelligence research is more important than combating climate change or curing cancer. Used a SLAPP lawsuit to get the article about him removed from Rational Wiki.

Jan Van Der Beek - interviewed for Aporia podcast.

Janne Miettinen - the Jolly Heretic.

Jared Taylor - infamous racist interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Jay Dyer - the Jolly Heretic.

Jeremy Carl - MAGA, appeared on the Aporia podcast.

Jess Gill -  interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

John Mac Ghlionn has written for the Daily Beast and for Aporia.

Jonatan Pallesen - co-authored an anti-Semitic paper with Emil Kirkegaard. Used a SLAPP suit to have the article about himself removed from Rational Wiki - seen celebrating on X/Twitter. Published an article wondering whether the Polio vaccine caused AIDS and appeared with Bo Winegard on the Aporia podcast. Also on the Jolly Heretic.

Jonathan Anomaly, a eugenicist who has written articles for Quillette and co-authored papers with Bo Winegard. For Aporia, he has co-authored an article with Diana Fleischman, Ives Parr, Stephen Hsu and Laurent Tellier defending embryo selection. Anomaly was a speaker at the far-right Natal Conference in 2023 and was exposed by Hope not Hate as the co-founder of a eugenics-biotech company PolygenX. Used a SLAPP lawsuit to get his information removed from the Rational Wiki.

Jonathan Rose (Prof) - interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Jonathan Keeperman - aka "Lomez" interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

John R. Hilles - co-authored a book with Edward Dutton and co-authored a paper with Dutton in Mankind Quarterly on the "demonic sexual fantasies" of witches. " He works with Dutton behind the scenes on his internet channel The Jolly Heretic" Known as J. O. A. Rayner-Hilles for his interview on Jolly Heretic.

John Zerzan - interviewed for Aporia podcast.

Joseph Renzulli - interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Julie Ponesse - anti-vaxxer crackpot wrote a book review for Aporia.

Katie Hopkins - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Kevin Dolan - on the Jolly Heretic.

Kurt Gray (Prof) - interviewed for Aporia podcast.

Laura Towler - AKA Laura Melia - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Leandra Ramm - interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Leo Kearse - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Leor Zmigrod - interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Lionel Shriver - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Lipton Matthews - a hereditarian and Holocaust denier, wrote "Myths about Black History." Also on The Jolly Heretic.

Macer Gifford - pseudonym - interviewed for Aporia podcast

Malcolm Collins - pro-natalist who attended the far-right Natal Conference in 2023. Wrote at least two articles - about natalism - for Aporia.

Mark Vicent - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Mark Weber - in The Jolly Heretic - Holocaust denier.

Mark Meechan - aka "Count Dankula" - interviewed on Jolly Heretic.

Mia Hughes - her entire life appears to be devoted to hating transgender people. Appeared on the Aporia podcast.

Michael Fritzell - some random stock trader, it seems. His Aporia article is about inflation.

Michael Huemer - interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Michael Rosen (Dr.) - appeared on the Aporia podcast.

Michael Rectenwald - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

N. S. Lyons - interviewed by Matthew Archer (Frost) - some random MAGA Substacker it appears. 

Nathan Cofnas - Appeared on the Aporia podcast several times.

Nicholas Agar - transhumanist, interviewed for Aporia podcast.

Nick Dixon - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Nigel Biggar - has written for Quillette. Interviewed on Aporia and interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Parker Settecase - some guy with a Substack. Interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Paul Bloom - appeared on the Aporia podcast.

Paul Embery - appeared on the Aporia podcast.

Paul Moreland - appeared on the Jolly Heretic.

Peter Brimelow - infamous racist, interviewed on the Jolly Heretic.

Peter Frost - also authored articles for the The Unz Review and for OpenPsych. His Aporia article is a defense of the existence of biological races. 

Peter Saunders - a right-wing British academic. The second Aporia author after Matthew Archer (Frost).

Piers Corbyn - anti-vaxxer, interviewed on Jolly Heretic.

Phillip Schofield - at the Jolly Heretic.

Rachel Wilson - interviewed at Jolly Heretic.

Randy Thornhill - the "rape is natural" guy, interviewed for Aporia.

Razib Khan - career-long promoter of race pseudoscience, considers Abdel Abdellaoui, one of the co-authors of the Rutherford paper "Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences" his friend. Appeared on the Aporia podcast and in May 2025,  promoted the neo-Nazi media outlet Aporia on his own podcast.

Renaud Camus - conspiracy theorist, interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Richard Grannon - Jolly Heretic.

Richard Haier - considers Arther Jensen one of his heroes. Interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Richard Hanania - infamous racist, interviewed for the Aporia podcast and Jolly Heretic.

Rob Henderson - rightwing hereditarian, writes for Quillette, interviewed by Aporia.

Robert Kurzban - evolutionary psychologist - enough said. Interviewed for Aporia.

Rudyard Lynch - some guy with a Youtube channel, interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Ryan Faulk - interviewed by Jolly Heretic.

Sascha Ivanov - "behavior geneticist" wrote for Aporia.

Sam Thiessen - interviewed in the Jolly Heretic.

Sam Vaknin - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Sander Van der Linden - appears to be an evolutionary psychology. Interviewed for Aporia podcast.

Simon Evans - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Simon Maass - right-winger who takes extremist racist J. Phillippe Rushton seriously. So he's a perfect fit for Aporia.

Simon Laird - said this about crazed anti-Semite Candace Owens: "...I think that Candace Owens is a positive development for the media landscape and the culture in general." So of course he writes for Aporia.

Simon Webb -  Webb was interviewed by Dutton for the Aporia podcast and for the Jolly Heretic.

Simon Wright - Some random "independent researcher" pushing twins studies bullshit on Aporia.

Simone Collins - interviewed for Aporia podcast about pro-natalism.

Stephen Hsu  - big fan of Kathryn Paige Harden, appeared on white supremacist Stefan Molyneux's podcast in 2017. In July 2020, Hsu resigned as senior vice president of research and innovation at Michigan State University after hundreds of academics and Michigan State professors signed a petition requesting for his removal. Interviewed for Aporia.

Steve Sailer - career-long racist, one-time public ally of Steven Pinker. Interviewed by Bo Winegard for the Aporia podcast. And interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Tania Reynolds - interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Theodore Dalrymple - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Tom Rowsell -  has a profile on Hope not hate, interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Walter Veit - interviewed for the Aporia podcast

Wilfred Reilly - far right activist. Interviewed for the Aporia podcast. Also on The Jolly Heretic.

William Costello - evolutionary psychologist - enough said. Interviewed for Aporia podcast.

Zac Kriegman, a former director of data science at Thomson Reuters who expresses his far right-wing sentiments and support for the Trump administration on X/Twitter,  retweeting people like Christopher Rufo and Charlie Kirk. Interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Zoltan Istvan - a transhumanist who wrote this for Aporia.

In the next post, I will look at those who contributed after the cat was out of the bag about neo-Nazi Aporia and Jolly Heretic.