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Thursday, May 29, 2025

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. 


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 onetwo, three, four, five, sixseven 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.


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 OpenPsychPublished in Aporia before the exposé, then wrote one, two, three, four, five post-exposé articles.


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.

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

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.

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Razib Khan & Emil Kirkegaard & Behavioral Genetics

Razib Khan and his obvious alliance with
neo-Nazi Emil Kirkegaard

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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 contributorISIR 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

Monday, May 26, 2025

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.

Sunday, May 25, 2025

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 Yarvin - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Daniella Pentsak - MAGA extremist, interviewed for Jolly Heretic.


David Starkey (Dr) - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.


Dominick Frisby - interviewed at Jolly Heretic.




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

Eric Schwitzgebel - interviewed for the Aporia podcast


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?


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.


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."


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.


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.


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 PolygenXUsed 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 Zerzan - interviewed for Aporia podcast.

Joseph Renzulli - interviewed for the Aporia podcast.


Katie Hopkins - interviewed for 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.


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 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.


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


Nicholas Agar - transhumanist, interviewed for Aporia podcast.

Nick Dixon - 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.


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.



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 Lairdsaid 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.


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.


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.

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Yes, Steven Pinker is a jerk

Because Pinker hates Trump, it can seem like he's one of the good guys. 

But then you remember what an absolute jerk he is.

Bluesky is noticing Pinker's jerkitude lately because of Pinker's NYTimes editorial, Harvard Derangement Syndrome.

First because Pinker and his right-wing friends have been attacking Harvard for ages, but now Pinker has appointed himself as champion of Harvard, because Trump is attacking it.

But in addition to Pinker's hypocrisy, there is his promotion of race pseudoscience. 

He's been doing this for years, but it is noticed only rarely, since Pinker has been generally protected by his status as a "celebrity intellectual" and the press has always treated him with reverence, sometimes even writing dreamily about his twinkling blue eyes.

Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times is on Bluesky pointing out Pinker's latest episode of promoting race pseudoscience, in that Harvard editorial.

And let's not overlook Pinker's promoting the claims of behavioral genetics, which always goes so well with race pseudoscience, with the claim that "educational attainment is partially in the genes."

In addition to being wrong about race, Pinker is wrong about marriage - it does not reduce crime. I discussed why in detail five years ago.

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Yes Trump is a horrible racist

Per the NYTimes: Trump Casts Himself as a Protector of Persecuted White People 

Sitting alongside Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, Mr. Trump said white people were “being executed.” He referred over and over again to “dead white people.” He dressed down Mr. Ramaphosa, who helped his country cast off the racist policies of apartheid, and questioned why he was not doing more when white people were being killed.

“I don’t know how you explain that,” Mr. Trump said. “How do you explain that?”

The American president was not much interested in the answer, which is that police statistics do not show that white people are more vulnerable to violent crime than other people in South Africa.

The confrontation provided a vivid demonstration of Mr. Trump’s views on race, which have animated his political life going back years. After rising to power in part by framing himself as a protector of white America, Mr. Trump has used his platform, in this case the Oval Office, to elevate claims of white grievance.

Absolutely disgusting. Anybody who voted for this monster should hang their head in shame - but Trump voters are shameless. And, let's be clear, evil.

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Julia Friedman and Quillette are mad there's a statue of a Black woman in NYC




Only a stupid racist rag like Quillette would publish this hate-dripping screed against the recently-installed statue "Grounded in the Stars."

And the hyperbole that expresses Friedman's racist rage is amaaaaazing - the passage posted below stops because the rest is behind a paywall and I'm not paying for Quillette shit. 

But the part of the article that is available for free online is a perfect example of the reactionary terror-rage-shriek in response to the toppling of slave-trader statues: 
Price shared his thoughts on public sculpture with Time magazine on 17 June 2020 after #BlackLivesMatter protesters in Bristol tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston and threw it into the city’s harbour. Statues, Price explained, “maintain the systems of power,” so tearing them down is not about “removing history,” it is about “creating a historical moment.” But simply replacing those statues with “alternative figures from history” would be misguided, he added, because it continues to “aggrandise particular individuals […] setting people apart.” His preferred solution was to erect public sculptures of anonymous composites that can counter the “endless stream of limiting tropes and identities for Black people.” The idea was to “critique the whole concept of portraiture. Portraiture is based on this idea of a person having the money to commission an artwork, or having done such great things that an artwork is commissioned in their honour.”
His work is, in other words, an exercise in a kind of jargony populist iconoclasm. Price’s only (stated) criterion is that his subjects must be black, because Price (who is also black) believes he can provide “a real insight to that experience.” This “strategy for inclusion” is meant to ensure “representations of those who have previously been stigmatised or invisible,” thereby helping to pave the way for a more cohesive society. Price’s artist profile on the Hauser & Wirth website pays lip service to “the intrinsic value of the individual,” but in Price’s model, the individual’s only function is to represent the identity group to which they belong, while the artist’s function is to challenge, confront, subvert, disrupt, and so on in an attempt to reshape society into an egalitarian utopia.
This kind of social-engineering agenda is not new to the arts, of course, and Price’s approach has some notable historical precedents. In the 1930s, it was practised on a nationwide scale in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, and, to an extent, in fascist Italy. In the USSR, this kind of agitprop was called Socialist Realism, the standards of which were unveiled in 1934 at the First Congress of Soviet Writers. The underlying ideological principle was elevation of the oppressed proletariat, in pursuit of which all art had to satisfy four requirements:
Cry harder, stupid racist drama queen. 

But really, the reaction from the hard-core racists at Quillette, publishing this deranged reactionary screed, is absolutely perfect and proves what a successful piece of art "Grounded in the Stars" really is.


Lizzo in front of "Grounded in the Stars" -
All the racists: "nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!"


Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Human Diversity Foundation has changed its name to Polygenic Scores LLC

The HDF name-change document 
with my notations in red

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Polygenic scores are used by behavioral geneticists like Adam Rutherford and Kathryn Paige Harden to claim that intelligence is linked to educational attainment, which is linked to polygenic scores.

As I went to some trouble to demonstrate, in my 9-part series What happened to Adam Rutherford? there are many problems with the claims and techniques of behavioral genetics:

What happened to Adam Rutherford? Part 1

What happened to Adam Rutherford? Part 2 - the NHAI and ISIR connections

What happened to Adam Rutherford? Part 3 ~ the nice kind of calipers

What happened to Adam Rutherford? Part 4 ~ the heritability fallacy

What happened to Adam Rutherford? Part 5 ~ racists, evolutionary psychologists and the meritocracy

What happened to Adam Rutherford? Part 6 - racism: you're soaking in it!

What happened to Adam Rutherford? part 7: Abdel Abdellaoui and his racist allies come for me

What happened to Adam Rutherford? Part 8 - the trouble with twin studies

What happened to Adam Rutherford? Part 9 - Nothing - he's been promoting behavioral genetics for a long time

One of the issues discussed in the series is that racists like Emil Kirkegaard (he changed his name to William Engman but still publishes under the name Emil Kirkegaard) uses the very poorly-supported but enthusiastically promoted claims of the behavioral geneticists to make claims about race as we see on his website in an article entitled: Polygenic score validity and group differences. By "group differences" Kirkegaard means race because he and his Neo-Nazi organization "Human Diversity Foundation" are obsessed with race.

And now Kirkegaard has changed the name of Human Diversity Foundation to Polygenic Scores LLC.

The garbage field of behavioral genetics has become the fertilizer for booming pseudoscience enterprises from Kirkegaard's Polygenic Scores LLC to Jonathan Anomaly's PolygenX

And meanwhile Rutherford and Harden go blithely on, promoting over-confident claims which, intentionally or not, help racists.

Monday, May 19, 2025

Who works for Emil Kirkegaard and HDF, the new Pioneer Fund?

Emil Kirkegaard  (legal name William Engman) is at the center of a network of racists and neo-Nazis called "Human Diversity Foundation" (HDF). We learned this back in October 2024 thanks to the report Race Science, Inc., by the organization Hope not Hate.

Hope not Hate infiltrated HDF - The three panels on the right-hand side 
show "Chris" the Hope not Hate infiltrator at the top, in the middle is Matthew Frost 
(aka Matthew Archer) and on the bottom is Kirkegaard.
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Unlike Pinkerite, which only writes about the public statements and known information about the race pseudoscience gang - see EMIL KIRKEGAARD'S RACE PSEUDOSCIENCE AND NAZI NETWORK updatedHope not hate infiltrated HDF. They wrote:

Having met Matthew Frost at the conference in Tallinn — and hearing rumours there that the Pioneer Fund was back in action — our undercover journalist approached him with an offer to invest in Aporia. Thus began a months-long series of conversations in which our infiltrator slowly gained the trust of Frost, who then introduced him to colleagues and unwittingly exposed the structure and personnel of his secret company. What we discovered in our conversations with Matthew Frost is that Aporia is merely one part of the HDF’s much larger operation.

During the infiltration, Hope not Hate discovered the following (I added the links). 

  • Aporia is part of the HDF’s organisation, as is a scientific racism research team
  • Andrew Conru, the multimillionaire entrepreneur who created Adult Friend Finder, has given $1.3 million to HDF. After being contacted prior to this report’s publication, he said he would cut ties with the company
  • HDF is working to create a cult of weapons-trained activists inspired by Scientology and the Nazi SS

The infiltrator came away with an org chart, shown at the top of this post. 

Here's a clearer version with additional text.





The Media side is led by Matthew Frost and Erik Ahrens, described as the "public-facing" side of the HDF organization.

The Research side (the “underground research arm" per Frost) is lead by Emil Kirkegaard, and in addition to employing 10 researchers and 2 developers publishes pseudoscience journals Mankind Quarterly and OpenPsyche.

According to the Hope not Hate report:
“The reason it’s an LLC,” Matthew Frost told our undercover reporter, “is because if you’re a non-profit, then that means you have to file all your internal paperwork for the nonprofit websites. And that just means a journalist will go there.” Pioneer, as a charity, had to publish its accounts and endure the ensuing negative press coverage; HDF’s leadership want to avoid making the same mistake.
According to Kirkegaard, the company’s running costs, as of November 2023, are roughly $50,000 per month. HDF has at least four full-time staff members, six part-timers and multiple researchers, contributors and developers paid on an ad-hoc basis, plus production costs and extensive travelling. In 2023, Frost, often accompanied by Erik Ahrens, made at least 13 international visits, with five cities in the US, including Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, and New York on two different occasions.

Mankind Publishing House LLC is registered in Wyoming, prompting a Wyoming newspaper the "Cowboy State Daily" to write an article about Kirkegaard called White Supremacist Who Wants Legal Child Porn Doing Business Through Wyoming LLC.  

The people mentioned in the article who appear to have worked for Emil Kirkegaard, or are currently working for him, include:

Bo Winegard - "...Bo Winegard, Aporia’s new executive editor, who, on the website, has called upon his readers to “​​embrace” white identity politics and believes racial stereotypes are “reasonably accurate

Bryan Pesta - "a longtime recipient of Pioneer funding, has moved over to HDF. He appears in their Monday planning meetings alongside the other underground researchers."

Cremieux - real name Jordan Lasker. "An article by the pseudonymous contributor Cremieux Recueil is titled “Elites are genetically different”." 

Davide Piffer - "Davide Piffer is also part of the team. His 2013 paper on intelligence and race was cited by Payton Gendron, the terrorist who shot dead 10 Black people in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York in 2022. The gunman wrote in his manifesto that Black people have a “lesser IQ”, concluding: “We must remove blacks from our western civilizations.” In past research papers, Piffer was credited as a member of the psychology department at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, however a representative said he never completed his PhD and left after a year in undisclosed circumstances.

Members of the research team are sometimes successful in smuggling their articles into peer reviewed journals. Piffer co-wrote an article with Kirkegaard focused on IQ for the journal Twin Research and Human Genetics, published by Cambridge University Press, in March 2024

(Of course it's a GWAS study because behavioral genetics is an essential component of contemporary race pseudoscience.)

Diana Fleischman - "an evolutionary psychologist at the University of New Mexico, has a part-time role hosting Aporia’s podcast, and is the author of an article on the website headlined: “You’re probably a eugenicist.” She's married to racist Geoffrey F. Miller recently discussed in my series on Adam Rutherford and the racists involved in behavioral genetics.

Edward Dutton - runs the Substack The Jolly Heretic - "HDF keeps Dutton on their payroll at approximately $40,000 per year" Also "The company has also secretly employed Edward Dutton, the scientific racism YouTuber who produces content as “The Jolly Heretic”. Dutton is one of the most successful British social media influencers to focus on eugenics, having amassed 110,000 subscribers on YouTube as of October 2024. Compared to Aporia — whose founder Matthew Frost is conscious about adopting too many controversial positions — Dutton is considerably more open with his racism. A former editor-in-chief of Mankind Quarterly, he has also published a book, The Naked Classroom, which claims Black people “don’t do very well academically and don’t behave very well either”.

Eirik Garnås  - "Another article headlined “Feminism Run Amok” by the Norwegian writer Eirik Garnås claims: 'Women are still predisposed toward choosiness, pairbonding and monogamy, which are most suited to their biological needs.'"

Nyborg, Dutton and Kirkegaard at the
neo-Nazi Scandza Forum in 2023

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Erik Ahrens - according to the Hope not Hate case file on HBD: "HDF has also enlisted Erik Ahrens, an Alternative für Deutschland communications worker, to expand its stable of influencers. With Frost, he has created an audiobook app called Liegent, which summarises texts by Charles Murray, Alain de Benoist, and Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. The aim is to give far-right content creators an advertising partner, providing them with an additional source of revenue. In return, HDF expects an element of control of their editorial output. Ahrens, who has launched a similar scheme in Germany, calls the scheme “economics as coercion”. Edward Dutton and Thomas Rowsell (AKA Survive The Jive) have promoted Liegent adverts."

Helmuth Nyborg - appeared on the Aporia podcast. Appears to be a good friend of Emil Kirkegaard.

Jared Taylor - "Frost explained to our undercover reporter in September 2023 that he would play “publication tricks”, such as his plan to host Jared Taylor to “give the fluent, well-thought-out version of his ideology”, but doing so in a debate-style format “so it doesn’t look too one-sided”. In recent months, however, Aporia has dropped its pretence of balance, as evidenced by the interview that eventually took place with Taylor in May 2024"

Joseph Bronski -  (a pseudonym) "Joseph Bronski, a member of HDF’s underground research team and Aporia contributor, has similarly written: “I think everyone has a moral obligation to improve the genome of the next generation." Bronski also published in OpenPsych.

Louise Perry - appeared on the Aporia podcast or its forerunner "Ideas Sleep Furiously"

Matthew Frost - "At the conference, our infiltrator met a man who introduced himself as Matthew Archer, although we now know his real name is Matthew Frost. Frost said he was the founder of Aporia, a website running stories on “HBD”, or human biodiversity. This is the belief that there are meaningful and measurable differences between different “races”, especially in terms of intelligence. It is, in essence, the misuse of science to promote racist ideology."

Matthew Goodwin - "...appeared on Aporia’s podcast in December 2023. Aporia’s website also recommends Goodwin’s Substack. In his Aporia interview, Goodwin discussed immigration and progressivism which is an issue where his views overlap with that of Aporia. During the interview he said 'radical progressivism represents as much of a threat to our civilization as radical Islamism.'"

Meng Hu - "A diagram shown to our undercover reporter shows that the research team has approximately 10 members. The meeting our infiltrator attended had 11 writers from the UK, the US, and Europe, including Kirkegaard. At least one contributor (Meng Hu at the University of Hong Kong) was not present." Published in OpenPsyche and Mankind Quarterly.

Noah Carl - "Aporia’s editor, was sacked from the University of Cambridge"

Noam Chomsky - appeared on the Aporia podcast or its forerunner "Ideas Sleep Furiously"

Peter Hitchens - appeared on the Aporia podcast or its forerunner "Ideas Sleep Furiously"

Russell T. Warne - " recent research paper, published in the respected scientific journal PLOS ONE and co-authored by Mankind Quarterly contributor Russell T. Warne" Has also published in Aporia.

Toby Young - former editor for Quillette and "The Spectator columnist and advocate of “progressive eugenics”, came on the Aporia podcast to complain that his views on genetics were unfairly considered contentious. “If you invoke genetic differences to explain any outcome discrepancy between groups, you’re in trouble,” he said. “Between racial groups, then you’re in suicide territory.”

But that doesn't cover all contributors to Aporia, who I will discuss soon.

The Hope not Hate article mentions that HDF tried to get Adam Rutherford to help legitimize Aporia. I laughed about it not too long ago, but that was before I realized how thoroughly connected Rutherford's co-authors and behavioral genetics are to the world of race pseudoscience. The Aporia ghouls probably figured Rutherford's support for behavioral genetics made him a perfect match for their organization, since the racists of the HDF attempt to use behavioral genetics to support their racist claims.

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