In part 6 of my multi-part series "What happened to Adam Rutherford?" I said I was going to talk about twin studies next.
But circumstances force me to write about something else first.
I really thought I made a good enough case that Abdel Abdellaoui and Razib Khan were friends and that behavioral genetics is absolutely lousy with racists.
- First we see Abdellaoui attacking me. Because that's what hereditarians do.
Abdellaoui's statement is a lie - I never called him or the other co-authors racists. I pointed out that they have racist contacts.
As I pointed out, Ezra Klein even refused to refer to Andrew Sullivan as a racist, so the bar to calling any hereditarian a racist is very high indeed.
- Razib Khan, while quoting his friend insulting me, libelously claimed I was "stalking" him. Khan has lied about me like this before. You can't stalk someone by writing about their public statements. Actual stalking is illegal and so falsely claiming someone has stalked you is defamation of character and legally actionable.
But Khan really gets a thrill when someone pays attention to him, he even made a meme about it.
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And then he shared the diagram I published six years ago.
My diagram for Emil Kirkegaard's neo-Nazi empire is much more up-to-date: EMIL KIRKEGAARD'S RACE PSEUDOSCIENCE AND NAZI NETWORK.
But then, the new diagram doesn't mention Khan because he's only a toadie in Kirkegaard's empire.
My focus on the world of race pseudoscience used to be much smaller, but thanks to working on this blog since 2018, I've found I had to expand the scope as I learned more about racist people and organizations not considered officially part of the Intellectual Dark Web, but certainly allied with them, like Kirkegaard and the International Society for Intelligence Research.
But speaking of Emil Kirkegaard - one of his writers, Cremieux - aka Jordan Lasker - jumped in to show his support for Khan.
Lasker, like Khan, is a contributor to Aporia, the media outlet owned by Emil Kirkegaard.
And there's white nationalist Anatoly Karlin chiming in. It appears all the racists hang out together on Twitter.
But probably the very best part of Abdellaoui's attack on me are the racists who jumped on his thread to give him support.
This one is a doozy.
So to reiterate, I did not call Abdellaoui nor his co-authors racists.
I simply pointed out that eight out of the ten co-authors of the Rutherford paper, "Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences," have direct connections to racists - either through co-authoring papers with known racists like Rosalind Arden and Tobias Wolfram, or promoting their work through racist organizations like Quillette, the International Society for Intelligence Research and Razib Khan's podcast.
Although I will say it is truly stunning how Abdel Abdellaoui is not a racist and yet he seems to have so many racist supporters.
I do appreciate all the attention that Abdel Abdellaoui and his racist supporters have given to this series though, my hit rate went through the roof once all the racists got word out that behavioral genetics was being attacked.
Damien Morris, apparently an ally of Abdellaoui, has written for racist Quillette. Is there anybody who writes for Quillette who is not an ally of Abdellaoui?
Abdellaoui can be seen supporting Morris on Twitter. Apparently Morris didn't want to sign a statement of principles that included "opposition to eugenics."
The more I learn about Abdel Abdellaoui, the more it looks like his racist connections are not simply the result of the fact that the field of behavioral genetics is full of racists.
Gregory Clark called himself an hereditarian in Quillette, although he's not a geneticist. But the authors of the Rutherford paper thought he was important enough to cite him three times.
Of course I did expect a vicious response to this series. Rutherford got the ball rolling early by insulting me.
Racists, and those who aid and abet racists, are horrible people, I would expect nothing less than for them to attack me with personal insults and lies and even, in the case of Razib Khan, defamation.
But as I said a few years ago: although my conflict with the Quillette/IDW industrial complex is a war of words, it's still a war and war is hell.
And Razib Khan - if you really don't want me to write about you, get out of the race pseudoscience business and stop working for people like Emil Kirkegaard. If you do that I promise I will never say another public word about you.
