Emil Kirkegaard, Steven Pinker, Maarten Boudry and the racist Heterodox Conference

Whee! We're such jolly racists!
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So according to an article in DeWereldMorgen, the "free Belgian Dutch-language alternative media website," Emil Kirkegaard was at the Heterodox Conference organized by Eric Kaufmann, the conference that Steven Pinker attended after being interviewed for neo-Nazi Aporia magazine. 

Pinker aligning with a neo-Nazi organization, owned by the neo-Nazi pedophilia-defending Emil Kirkegaard was an event so notable in the history of Pinker's 20+ year romance with race pseudoscience - always forgiven and forgotten by the legacy media - that the Guardian, a legacy media organization, actually wrote about it.

Fun fact: Kirkegaard sued someone for defamation for referring to him as a supporter of paedophilia, in British court - and Kirkegaard lost the case. He was later ordered to pay the defendant and he has refused to do so for years now. So on top of being a neo-Nazi, racist pedophilia defender he's also a deadbeat scofflaw.

In other words, exactly the kind of loser that the racist ghouls at the Heterodox Conference in Buckingham would align with.

The DeWereldMorgen article by Jotie, which I translated into English via Google Translate, is called Maarten Boudry at a race science meeting. The article begins:

Maarten Boudry attended the Heterodox Conference in Buckingham. The conference ran from 5 to 7 June and was organised by Eric Kaufmann. Kaufmann has his own project at the University of Buckingham, The Centre of Heterodox Social Science, with the approval of Buckingham's vice-chancellor James Tooley (1). In the work of Eric Kaufmann and among the attendees at the conference, a striking number of pseudoscientific racists: Claire Lehman, Nathan Cofnas, Noah Carl, Emil Kirkegaard. Founder Eric Kaufmann is in fact well-disposed towards pseudoscientific racism.

Later in the article:

Noah Karl and Emil Kirkegaard were also present at the Heterodox conference and recorded an episode for the Aporia podcast.

I assume Maarten Boudry refers to "Dutch-speaking Belgian philosopher and skeptic" Maarten Boudry. 

I did not recognize Boudry's name, even though I'd mentioned him on this blog, but after Googling the name a bit realized he was another race pseudoscience loving creep, referring to Steven Pinker in an interview with him as "one of my intellectual heroes."

Boudry also co-authored an article with far-right racist Jerry Coyne in far-right racist magazine Quillette, because that's what race pseudoscience-lovers do.

GODDAM - I just took a peek and Boudry contributes so often to racist monstrosity Quillette, he might as well be on staff.

It seems very likely to me that there is some kind of financial connection between Kirkegaard and his neo-Nazi organization (formerly Human Diversity Foundation, now Polygenic Scores LLC) and Kaufmann, who organized the conference and the University of Buckingham which hosted the conference.

I just wish the article had a photo of Kirkegaard from the conference. 

I do take exception to the last section of the article though:

Two more mainstream figures who were also present were Shermer and Pinker. 

 

Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic 2000, has fallen head over heels for racial biology. Shermer is friends with Elizabeth Weiss, the wife of the late race science quack Philip Rushton (Rushton thought men with long penises had low IQs and got his data from fictional soft porn). “Of course you think Rushton was a racist. I thought so too until I looked at the evidence.” (12). 

 

Elizabeth Weiss also got a chapter in Lawrence Krauss's book The War On Science. This isn't the only similarity between Krauss and Shermer, both have also been accused of misconduct. 

 

Steven Pinker has also long been a proponent of racial biology. In his work such as “The Blank Slate” he offers a more moderate version in which he argues that a completely blank slate model is wrong. In reality he goes very far with the opposite, biological explanation. Steven Pinker has been a member of Steve Sailer’s email group, the “Human Biodiversity Discussion Group,” since the late 1990s. In 2002 he gave an interview to Sailer and in 2004 Pinker nominated a text by Sailer for “The Best Science and Nature Writing 2004.” Steve Sailer argued that because Iraqis often (17%, 40%, 60%) marry cousins, genetics made it impossible to build democracy in Iraq. 

 

Pinker regularly promotes, among other things, the “Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence”, a race science paper by Gregory Cochran. Greg received 600,000 dollars from Ron Unz for his work and has not contributed since, much to the annoyance of the race science movement (13). 

 

Greg suspected that Jews were hyperintelligent because the genes that cause genetic abnormalities within the Jewish community, such as Tay–Sachs, would also be responsible for intelligence. This hypothesis, no matter how often Pinker says that it can be tested, has never been tested. Neither by Pinker nor by Greg. 

 

According to geneticist Adam Rutherford, the genes for intelligence and the genes for these abnormalities are unrelated (14). 

 

Despite the value of this paper, it is frequently used by racial biologists, and by Nathan Cofnas and Kevin MacDonald.

The last sentence jumped out at me, although the issue might be the translation rather than the content itself. 

UPDATE: I'm told that Google Translate did not accurately translate the part of the article about NHAI, and the article does not say NHAI has value.

But if the content is represented accurately, I must object to the Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence (NHAI) paper referred to as if it has any value at all. It is garbage and I recently celebrated the fact that in the 20 years since it has been published, it has never been proven - nor even tested in spite of the feckless, racist weasel Steven Pinker claiming it would be easy to test.

Also, rather than Kevin MacDonald the white supremacist and anti-Semite using the NHAI paper, MacDonald is cited as a source by the NHAI paper.

And of course Adam Rutherford may object to the NHAI, but as I documented in my 9-part series "What happened to Adam Rutherford?" the behavioral genetics garbage that Rutherford was lately seen promoting comes to the same hereditarian conclusions about jobs and genetics that NHAI does.

Quillette founder Claire Lehmann could be seen promoting her racist neo-Nazi grotesquerie on Linked-In.