Jordan Lasker

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Jordan Lasker is an American eugenicist and hereditarianism pseudoscientist who is involved with Richard Hanania's Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI) and is a writer for the far-right Aporia Magazine.

Lasker is widely suspected of using the online pseudonym Cremieux Recueil (X, Substack). Lasker lists his current affiliation as Texas Tech University. He claims to be a bioinformatician working at a genomics company. Under Cremieux, he argues that left-wing and "woke" people are mentally ill.^{Do You Believe That?}

Lasker's race and intelligence research has been criticized for "severe theoretical, methodological, and rhetorical flaws" and has been described as an example of "fringe science".

Publications

In 2019, Lasker co-authored "Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability" with John G. R. Fuerst, Emil Kirkegaard, Bryan J. Pesta in the MDPI journal Psych. During this time, Lasker listed his affiliation as the department of economics at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities but there was no confirmation that he had worked there.

For “Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability,” in 2019, Pesta had three co-authors: Jordan Lasker, John G.R. Fuerst, and Emil O.W. Kirkegaard. The Chronicle attempted to contact all of them via publicly listed email addresses, but received no replies.

Lasker listed his affiliation as the department of economics at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. However, he’s not listed on the department’s faculty page. Nor did he appear on any archived version of the page since 2016. The University of Minnesota didn’t respond to a request for information about Lasker’s affiliation.

He was a speaker at the 2022 International Society for Intelligence Research Annual Conference with neo-Nazi Helmuth Nyborg, Heiner Rindermann, Emily Willoughby and other HBD pseudoscientists. Some of Lasker's papers are co-authored with white supremacist Emil Kirkegaard and are published in Intelligence and the Psych journal.

Lasker's IQ research is mostly supported by the far-right including the "Human Varieties" blog, the white supremacist American Renaissance and has been positively cited by Holocaust denier Lipton Matthews on the neo-Nazi website Counter-Currents.

2020 meta-analysis

In 2020, Lasker co-authored a meta-analysis "Racial and ethnic group differences in the heritability of intelligence" with white nationalists John G. R. Fuerst, Emil Kirkegaard, Jan te Nijenhuis and Bryan Pesta. Their meta-analysis was heavily criticized as a "racially motivated and poorly executed work" by Evan J. Giangrande and Eric Turkheimer:

In 2020, Pesta et al. published an article entitled "Racial and Ethnic Group Differences in the Heritability of Intelligence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" in the journal Intelligence. The authors framed their analysis as an examination of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis, which holds that the heritability of intelligence varies as a function of socioeconomic status. Pesta et al. concluded that the heritability of intelligence does not differ across racial and ethnic groups in the United States. They claimed their results challenge the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis and support the hereditarian position that mean differences in IQ among racial and ethnic groups are attributable to genetic differences rather than environmental disparities. In this commentary, we outline severe theoretical, methodological, and rhetorical flaws in every step of Pesta et al.'s meta-analysis. The most reliable finding from Pesta et al. is consistent with the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis and directly contradicts a hereditarian understanding of group differences in intelligence. Finally, we suggest that Pesta et al. serves as an example of how racially motivated and poorly executed work can find its way into a mainstream scientific journal, underscoring the importance of robust peer review and rigorous editorial judgment in the open-science era.

Blogger

In April 2022, Lasker under his real name wrote an article for Richard Hanania's Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI). Since October 2022, he is suspected of being the blogger using the pseudonym Cremieux Recueil. Cremieux Recueil is currently a writer for the far-right Aporia Magazine.

Cremieux is also a writer for UnHerd.

Cremieux Recueil

“”Have you ever wondered why advertisements heavily feature Black people when they're only 12-14% of the U.S. population?

—Cremieux Recueil

Prior to blogging on Substack, Cremieux Recueil only used the first name of the pseudonym ("Cremieux") on the blogging platform Medium. It has also been pointed out that Lasker first began blogging as Cremieux Recueil on Substack not long after he made an article under his real name According to someone who has compared Lasker's RPubs account (JLLJ) to tweets made by Cremieux on X — "They are the same, often word for word. Figures are generated with the exact copied data". Finally, there is apparently a circulated document "where his numerous alts are cross referenced with his claims/writing styles."

Lasker's Substack account in his real name (@jordanlasker850318) has liked posts by Razib Khan. This matches behaviour of Cremieux Recueil who is a mutual follower of Khan on X and has been interviewed on his podcast. In October 2024, an X account named "college hill" compiled evidence in two lengthy threads showing Lasker is almost certainly Cremieux Recueil.

Cremieux Recueil was a speaker at LessOnline an event hosted with the right-wing Manifest 2024 at Lighthaven in Berkeley, California. Eugenicist Jonathan Anomaly and Richard Hanania attended Manifest 2024.

Views

Cremieux Recueil's account on X is dedicated to posting ableism, pro-natalism and eugenics (including support for embryo selection). They have promoted eugenicist Jonathan Anomaly's book Creating Future People. A search of their X timeline shows that they often interact with other far-right eugenicists and ableists including Anatoly Karlin who supports murdering disabled children.

Political

Cremieux Recueil is a died-hard Donald Trump and J. D. Vance supporter.

See also

• Monitoring Bias — American white nationalist who Cremieux follows on x.com.
• Jonatan Pallesen — Danish hereditarian who also writes for the Aporia Magazine.

External links

• Crémieux on X.com