Three more race pseudoscience ghouls SLAPP Rational Wiki

More than ever it looks like there is a coordinated campaign to harass the Rational Media Foundation, the parent organization of Rational Wiki with SLAPP suits, before it moves from New Mexico to Oregon, a less SLAPP-happy state.

Also - surprise surprise, Jesse Singal is in the mix. He gets so much credit for his anti-trans work that his support for race pseudoscience promoters has been sadly overlooked.

There are now five plaintiffs against Rational Wiki. Four of them are mad because there are articles about them on Rational Wiki that discuss their race pseudoscience activities and alliances. 

All five of them have a connection to Emil Kirkegaard who owns the Human Diversity Foundation (HDF). 

Per the case file on HDF by UK organization Hope not Hate, the Human Diversity Foundation (my highlights):

...advances race science. It is the successor to the Pioneer Fund, an American eugenics organisation created in 1937 that developed ties to Nazi Germany and disseminated its propaganda. Registered in Wyoming for privacy reasons, HDF is led by Emil Kirkegaard, a Danish race scientist, and Matthew Frost, a former religious studies teacher from the UK.

Kirkegaard and Frost separately manage the two main arms of HDF. The first is an underground research team that publishes articles in OpenPsych and Mankind Quarterly, both race science journals. Kirkegaard’s team consists of approximately a dozen authors, one of whom is Davide Piffer, an Italian race scientist who referred to African immigrants as “gorillas” and had his paper cited in the manifesto of the 2022 Buffalo terrorist who killed 10 people.

The second arm of HDF aims to reach a larger audience through its media outreach. It includes Aporia Magazine, a race science publication that Frost founded...

But I think the most incisive quote about HDF, found in the Hope not Hate article Race Science Inc is this:

• HDF is working to create a cult of weapons-trained activists inspired by Scientology and the Nazi SS
That tells you everything you need to know about Emil Kirkegaard and all the people who fund him and who work for him.

I have a handy diagram connecting Kirkegaard and his organization to various plutocrat funders and racist organizations.

Four of the Rational Wiki plaintiffs have collegial relationships with Kirkegaard, while the fifth plaintiff has had an adversarial relationship with Kirkegaard. I won't be focusing on that plaintiff, although I think his lawsuit has no more merit than the other four.

But it's still striking that all five plaintiffs (so far) have connections to Emil Kirkegaard.

Another thing they all have in common (except the fifth plaintiff with the adversarial relationship to Kirkegaard) is that they have all participated in conferences of the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR), including Kirkegaard, who was at the most recent conference in 2024. And David Piffer, mentioned in the quote from the Hope not Hate website above, has also participated, in the 2017 ISIR conference. 

Let's break down the Kirkegard/ISIR connections of the four race pseudoscience plaintiffs:

• Jonathan Anomaly - the first SLAPP plaintiff, Jonathan Anomaly is connected to Kirkegaard via Aporia. I've begun a series looking at the lawsuit and Anomaly's race pseudoscience connections. I will be writing more about his connection to Kirkegaard and other hard-core racists. Anomaly participated in the 2019 ISIR conference. 

• Jan te Nijenhuis - per Wikipedia, Jan te Nijenhuis "has controversially published several papers in the Mankind Quarterly which is widely regarded as a racist pseudoscience journal and has attended the London Conference on Intelligence.[4][5]" Mankind Quarterly is published by HDF. te Nijenhuis has co-authored at least two papers with Michael A. Woodley of Menie, and te Nijenhuis participated in ISIR conferences in 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,  2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2016. te Nijenhuis v. Rationalwiki Foundation, Inc. et al
  
  
• Russell T. Warne - Russell T. Warne founded an organization called RIOT "to address a major gap in intelligence testing: no rigorously developed, professionally administered IQ tests were available solely online." From his RiotIQTest account on X/Twitter, Warne shared with the world the fact that Emil Kirkegaard was permitted to participate in the 2024 ISIR conference after a brouhaha lead to him being disinvited in 2022. Had Warne not done so, it would have been harder to prove Kirkegaard had participated since ISIR has not shared a program from the 2024 conference as it always has every other year. Warne is mentioned twice in the Race Science Inc article, including:

In October 2023, the Conservative MP Neil O’Brien shared an Aporia article on his own Substack. Headlined “The West’s Fertility Crisis”, it was written by Russell T. Warne, an American author whose work has appeared in the pages of Mankind Quarterly. After O’Brien recommended that his online followers read the article, Matthew Frost texted our undercover reporter an image of a dark hand manipulating a marionette. O’Brien did not respond to a request for comment.

Aporia and Mankind Quarterly are both published by Kirkegaard. I've mentioned Warne a few times over the years on this blog, including that he's written for Quillette. In addition to the 2024 ISIR conference, Warne has participated in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 ISIR conferences. Warne v. Rationalwiki Foundation, Inc. et al

• Michael A. Woodley of Menie - of all the plaintiffs, Michael A. Woodley of Menie has had the most notoriety. He was featured in a New York Times article A Racist Researcher, Exposed by a Mass Shooting because the racist Buffalo mass-murderer cited Woodley in his manifesto:

 He was also cited, among other academic references, in a manifesto written by the teenager motivated by racist views who killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo last month.

Despite his own extreme views, the researcher, Michael Woodley — a 38-year-old British man — has been affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Brussel, one of Belgium’s leading universities, and his controversial work was originally undertaken as he studied at some of the world’s most prestigious academic institutions.

The discovery that the gunman had cited Mr. Woodley’s work shocked many academics, who said they hoped it might now force institutions to confront questions about their responsibility toward society, academic rigor and the space they give to extremist ideas.

Woodley of Menie's connection to Kirkegaard is through his association with OpenPsych, published by HDF. Woodley has participated in twelve ISIR conferences, and been published many times by the ISIR-related Intelligence and at one time was a member of the editorial board of  Intelligence. Woodley of Menie v. Rationalwiki Foundation, Inc. (1:25-cv-00296)

Given the connection between the four pseudoscience plaintiffs and International Society for Intelligence Research, it's possible that this maybe-coordinated SLAPP attack on Rational Wiki is being funded by the Institute of Mental Chronometry which has not only provided funding for the ISIR, but has given half a million dollars to two academics who are also affiliated with ISIR, Emily Willoughby and James J. Lee. The Rational Wiki article on Willoughby was recently removed, although I disagree with that decision. 

So ISIR/Institute of Mental Chronometry could probably afford to fund the lawsuits and I absolutely would not put it past them. 

But my main suspect is the Human Diversity Foundation. But at this point, is there really much difference between the Human Diversity Foundation and the International Society for Intelligence Research? There is so much cross-over between the people and the racist beliefs of the two organizations, why would they not coordinate to try to make race pseudoscience respectable by crushing Rational Wiki? 

In the article which City Journal was forced to remove from its site because of a defamation lawsuit, and most likely written at the behest of Emil Kirkegaard, it is claimed that Jonathan Anomaly, Jan te Nijenhuis, Emil Kirkegaard and Emily Willoughby, among others, were harmed by Rational Wiki because of an editor named Oliver Smith - who stopped editing at Rational Wiki in 2019.

I see Jesse Singal was showing his support for team race pseudoscience on X/Twitter a couple of months ago, by promoting that defamatory attack and smearing Rational Wiki in the process.  Rational Wiki debunked the article's claims, which the shit "journalist" Singal couldn't be bothered to research - probably because he hates Rational Wiki, comparing it unfavorably to the psychopathic Kiwi Farms on his podcast.

Singal is so devoted to race pseudoscience promoters he will block those who question his alliance with the indisputably racist Razib Khan, who of course has worked for Emil Kirkegaard.  And yes, Khan has participated in an ISIR conference too, in 2019.

Khan can be seen below at racist Curtis Yarvin's wedding.