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.

It's time to say it out loud - Steven Pinker is a racist - a shameless racist

Steven Pinker has been called many things during the years of his fame.

A "celebrity intellectual" by the New York Times.

"The World's Most Annoying Man" by Nathan J. Robinson.

"A weasel" by me.

But it's time for another word to describe Pinker and he's been working towards it for about the last quarter-century, since at least when he was helping to promote the career of professional racist Steve Sailer. 

Pinker and Quillette founder Claire Lehmann at the "Heterodox" conference
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As already established, Steven Pinker is utterly shameless, so it's no surprise to see him following up his appearance on the neo-Nazi Aporia magazine podcast with his participation at the "inaugural Heterodox Conference" which wraps up today.

Just about every single person at this conference has a connection to Aporia, Quillette, the far right, (MAGA Christopher Rufo,) or has become famous for sexual harassment like Lawrence Krauss and Joshua Katz. Plus that idiot Yascha Mounk of the reactionary-infested Persuasion. 

And of course the Intellectual Dark Web, including named member, and complete racist Michael Shermer, good personal friend of Steven Pinker.

The conference was organized by Eric Kaufmann, a member of racist extremist Richard Hanania's think tank. Which makes me think that Hanania funded this conference, but considering how many people at the conference have worked for or with Emil Kirkegaard via Aporia and other outlets of Polygenic Scores (formerly Human Diversity Foundation) Kirkegaard is also a suspect.

And Jonathan Anomaly, eugenics huckster, and SLAPP suit plaintiff, was also there.

The Guardian took notice of Pinker's close alliance with racists today in its article, Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism, writing:

The Harvard psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker appeared on the podcast of Aporia, an outlet whose owners advocate for a revival of race science and have spoken of seeking “legitimation by association” by platforming more mainstream figures.

I had to laugh at "legitimation by association." Pinker and his sociobiology sympathizers like Abdel Abdellaoui like to cry "guilt by association" whenever their connections to racists are mentioned, so it's great to see Pinker's racist buddies admit they do exactly what I've always accused them of doing - using Steve Pinker, celebrity intellectual, in their campaign to mainstream race pseudoscience.

More from the article:

Patrik Hermansson, a researcher at UK anti-racism non-profit Hope Not Hate, said that Pinker’s “decision to appear on Aporia, a far-right platform for scientific racism, provides an invaluable service to an extremist outlet by legitimising its content and attracting new followers”.
He added: “By lending his Harvard credentials to Aporia, Pinker contributes to the normalisation and spread of dangerous, discredited ideas.”

That was always the plan - to mainstream race pseudoscience. That's why Quillette recruited Pinker to write for them. 

After decades of Steven Pinker promoting race pseudoscience it's time to find Steven Pinker guilty of racism.

Steven Pinker appears on a neo-Nazi podcast

The second time Pinker has used his "celebrity intellectual" status to promote neo-Nazi media
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I just mentioned in the last post that Steven Pinker has a byline in Aporia magazine, which is owned by neo-Nazi weirdo Emil Kirkegaard. Read more about Kirkegaard's neo-Nazi organization - including Aporia, in the Hope not hate article Race Science, Inc.

I created this handy diagram, using a lot of the information from the article. Click to enlarge. Text for the diagram on this post.

And now Pinker has appeared on the Aporia podcast, featured on Youtube.

Bluesky noticed.

Pinker is absolutely shameless.

As I say in my "who is behind Pinkerite?" page:

Fun fact: Steven Pinker is one of Emil Kirkegaard's influences. And in turn, Pinker uses the force of his "celebrity intellectual" status to promote the career of Razib Khan and the Substack-platformed neo-Nazi Aporia Magazine. 

The big question is why does Pinker, who is Jewish (although an atheist), promote a neo-Nazi media outlet?

My guess is that he is such a true believer, even evangelist, for race pseudoscience that he'll promote an organization devoted to race pseudoscience even if it includes neo-Nazis. 

And it is not hyperbole to use the term "neo-Nazi" to describe Aporia. As the Hope not Hate investigative report concluded about Aporia's parent organization: "HDF is working to create a cult of weapons-trained activists inspired by Scientology and the Nazi SS."

Clearly Steven Pinker has no qualms about promoting a neo-Nazi organization. 

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.

NOTE: this list has been updated to include those who participated in one or both of these racist/neo-Nazi publications since this post was published on May 29.

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. 

Douglass Carswell - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

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 one, two, three, four, five, six, seven 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.

Nathan Cofnas - Appeared on the Aporia podcast several times, his post-exposé article for Aporia is "Is wokeness just beginning?"

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 Bloom - professor at Yale University - one of those anti-empathy assholes, appeared before and after the exposé on the Aporia podcast.

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

Phillipe Lemoine -  has worked for Richard Hanania's organization, interviewed for Aporia.

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.

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.

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 Dunkel, also writes for OpenPsych and Mankind Quarterly. Wrote the article "Does IQ alone explain Jewish success? for Aporia.

Curtis Yarvin - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Daniella Pentsak - MAGA extremist, interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

David Goodhart - appeared on the Aporia podcast 

David Starkey (Dr) - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Dimitri van der Linden - co-authored papers with Curtis Dunkel and Edward Dutton. Published an article for Aporia in August 2023.

Dominick Frisby - interviewed at Jolly Heretic.

Douglas Murray - white supremacist, named member of the Intellectual Dark Web, interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Ed West - rightwing guy with a Substack appeared on the Aporia podcast.

Elizabeth Weiss - former wife of J. Philippe Rushton, published an article in Aporia related to her ongoing battle with Native Americans.

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

Eric Schwitzgebel - interviewed for the Aporia podcast

Eugene M. McCarthy - the Jolly Heretic.

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?

Graham Linehan - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

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.

Heather Mac Donald - known to some as Heather "great replacement" Mac Donald was interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

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."

J. Michael Bailey - anti-trans activitist, author of retracted work. Interviewed for the Aporia podcast and Jolly Heretic.

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.

Janne Miettinen - the Jolly Heretic.

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.

Jonatan Pallesen - co-authored an anti-Semitic paper with Emil Kirkegaard. Used a SLAPP suit to have the article about himself removed from Rational Wiki - seen celebrating on X/Twitter. Published an article wondering whether the Polio vaccine caused AIDS and appeared with Bo Winegard on the Aporia podcast. Also on the Jolly Heretic.

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 PolygenX. Used 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 R. Hilles - co-authored a book with Edward Dutton and co-authored a paper with Dutton in Mankind Quarterly on the "demonic sexual fantasies" of witches. " He works with Dutton behind the scenes on his internet channel The Jolly Heretic" Known as J. O. A. Rayner-Hilles for his interview on Jolly Heretic.

John Zerzan - interviewed for Aporia podcast.

Joseph Renzulli - interviewed for the Aporia podcast.

Julie Ponesse - anti-vaxxer crackpot wrote a book review for Aporia.

Katie Hopkins - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

Kevin Dolan - on the 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.

Lionel Shriver - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

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 Weber - in The Jolly Heretic - Holocaust denier.

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.

Michael Rectenwald - interviewed for Jolly Heretic.

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

Nathan Cofnas - Appeared on the Aporia podcast several times.

Nicholas Agar - transhumanist, interviewed for Aporia podcast.

Nick Dixon - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

Nigel Biggar - has written for Quillette. Interviewed on Aporia and 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.

Razib Khan - career-long promoter of race pseudoscience, considers Abdel Abdellaoui, one of the co-authors of the Rutherford paper "Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences" his friend. Appeared on the Aporia podcast and in May 2025,  promoted the neo-Nazi media outlet Aporia on his own podcast.

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.

Richard Hanania - infamous racist, interviewed for the Aporia podcast and Jolly Heretic.

Rob Henderson - rightwing hereditarian, writes for Quillette, interviewed by Aporia.

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 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." 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.

Theodore Dalrymple - interviewed for the Jolly Heretic.

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.

Zac Kriegman, a former director of data science at Thomson Reuters who expresses his far right-wing sentiments and support for the Trump administration on X/Twitter,  retweeting people like Christopher Rufo and Charlie Kirk. Interviewed for the 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.

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.