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.
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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 updated - Hope 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).
- The Pioneer Fund, a Nazi-affiliated eugenics organisation —thought to be essentially defunct — has rebranded as the Human Diversity Foundation (HDF)
- 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 has connections to Alternative für Deutschland, the far-right German party, and hopes to create a white-only ethnostate
- 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 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.
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.'"
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| Nyborg, Dutton and Kirkegaard at the neo-Nazi Scandza Forum in 2023 ----------------------------------------------------- |
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.'"
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.
