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