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And now, thanks to former neo-Nazi and former Kirkegaard associate Erik Ahrens I see that Kirkegaard has another business, "Liegent." And like Polygenic Scores LLC, Liegent is registered in Wyoming.
According to Ahrens, writing on his (ugh) Substack in German (translated via Google Translate but my highlight):
I maintained contact with Kirkegaard from 2021 onwards, intensifying this contact around 2022 (we attended the ISIR conference in Vienna together, where he was subsequently disinvited). From 2023 onwards, I was involved with him and his then business partner Matthew Frost in the Human Diversity Foundation. In the summer of 2023, I founded a startup called Liegent LLC with him and his girlfriend. From January to April 2024, I lived with Kirkegaard and his girlfriend in a house in Spain. I can prove all of this with pictures, videos, chats, and much other evidence – I was closer to Emil Kirkegaard than almost anyone else. His statements like "racism is good" and the openly expressed bias of his "research" can also be confirmed by others who had contact with him during this time.
Ahrens also published a video discussing Kirkegaard on Youtube recently.
As you can see on the image above, Liegent is, predictably, devoted to promoting race pseudoscience, in this case via one of the most important texts of twenty-first century race pseudoscience, The Bell Curve.
What I find fascinating is that apparently some of the content Liegent offers is access to books written by Jonathan Haidt, Richard Dawkins, and David Reich.
So do Haidt, Dawkins and Reich have some kind of business arrangements with Emil Kirkegaard?
In addition to Liegent, Kirkegaard can be seen promoting a company run by some of his associates, Herasight.
I think it's extremely likely Kirkegaard is an investor in this company since its team and advisor lists include:
- Jonathan Anomaly, who has contributed to Kirkegaard's Aporia podcast;
- Tobias Wolfram, an ally of far-right, neo-Nazi friendly (if not an actual neo-Nazi) Martin Sellner;
- Spencer Moore seen here contributing to a comments section of Aporia;
- Timothy Bates - likely Timothy C. Bates, a one-time president of gutter racist organization International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) an organization with a well-documented association with Emil Kirkegaard;
- Alex Strudwick Young who likes to retweet Aporia contributors/notorious racists Razib Khan and Cremieux, both far-right political operatives.
Herasight was mentioned in an article in Popular Mechanics in August:
Last week, the latest entrant into this embryonic scrum—a company called Herasight—came out of “stealth mode” with a white paper detailing how their embryonic tool can screen for the likelihood of 17 diseases (known as a polygenic score) developing within an embryo, effectively giving parents the opportunity to select the “healthiest” one of the bunch. The company also asserts that it can do this better than the current rogue’s gallery that comprises its technological competition.
Herasight’s announcement post on X (formerly Twitter) also showed a widget displaying predicted embryonic IQs—a method that isn’t explained in the accompanying white paper—which left a few experts scratching their heads.
“I'm curious about the decision to roll out the widget without making the research behind it available,” tweeted Sasha Gusev, a statistical geneticist at Harvard Medical School. “The goal is to use eugenics backlash to generate a hype cycle and raise more money (while maintaining plausible deniability), yes?”
(A co-author of the paper, UCLA geneticist Alex Strudwick Young, said that details of the IQ predictor will be released in a future white paper.)
