Emil O. W. Kirkegaard

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Emil O. W. Kirkegaard is a Danish pseudoscientist who set up two "hereditarian" pseudo-journals which has attracted white nationalists and neo-Nazis to publish in the guise of "racial realism" or "human biodiversity" (HBD).

Kirkegaard describes himself as a "Polymath scientist".[1]. In reality he's a university undergraduate, with a bachelor's degree in linguistics. His research papers are published by himself in his own pseudojournals, Open Behavioral Genetics and Open Differential Psychology. Both journals are not properly peer-reviewed; Kirkegaard's has invented what he calls "fast open access peer-review" meaning submitted articles can be "reviewed" pre-publication within minutes via posting comments on his forum (Open Psych). As someone has complained, this means: "anyone (even a 10 year old) can join a forum, post a comment (as little as one word) and then claim this is counted as peer-review."[2] Another concern is that although the journals have a number of reviewers who are cited on the forum as holding Ph.Ds, most are in fields not relevant to article submissions.

One reviewer (Meng Hu) left Kirkegaard's forum after noting the bias, i.e. all reviews are made by ""hereditarians":

One problem with OP is that most (if not all) reviewers have an "hereditarian side". I would like to see reviewers hostile to the genetic theory. Otherwise, people may think OP looks like a Mankind Quarterly bis. I have nothing against MQ, if there is no conflict of interest or something of this sort, but it's clear most people won't see it like this. What's more, concerning Fuerst, Dalliard or myself, it's worse, see we co-blog on Human Varieties, and either one of us reviewing the other... that looks weird.

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