Heiner Rindermann



Heiner Rindermann is a HBD pseudoscientist from Germany who currently sits on the Editorial Board of the controversial journal Intelligence and "whose work is often cited by racists seeking to prove that immigrants have low IQ". Rindermann himself is associated with the far-right, for example he spoke at a conference in 2016, delivering an anti-immigration talk: "Cognitive and Cultural 'Enrichment' of Europe by Immigration". Annual conferences by the PFC have been described as "serious academic racist events" by the SPLC. He also attended the London Conference on Intelligence with white supremacists, neo-Nazis and Emil Kirkegaard with whom he reviews papers for OpenPsych. Rindermann identifies as a racialist, for example in his book Cognitive Capitalism he argues for the existence of human races.

Race and IQ pseudoscience
Rindermann's pseudoscience is popular among white nationalists since he argues immigrants from the Middle East and Africa have lower IQs than native ethnic groups from Europe and that these mean group differences (that he overestimates to begin with) are significantly the result of genetics.

His writings on race and intelligence are for example promoted on VDARE, The Unz Review and the far-right The New Observer: