Jonatan Pallesen

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Black men have gotten less criminal, but are still vastly more criminal than Whites.
—Jonatan Pallesen in 2024.[1]
Half of all gang rapes are committed by immigrants from just three countries (Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia).
—Jonatan Pallesen[2]

Jonatan Pallesen is a Danish data scientist and hereditarian who promotes race realism pseudoscience and has co-authored controversial papers with eugenicists including white supremacist Emil Kirkegaard.[3][4][5] Pallesen holds far-right views and has described non-western immigration as "morally indefensible".[6] He has argued that non-Western immigrants commit more rape and violence.[2][6]

Pallesen obtained a PhD in genomics from Aarhus University in 2015. He works as a data scientist for Dansk Industri.[7]

Race realism pseudoscience[edit]

Jonatan Pallesen with white nationalist Edward Dutton
Bo Winegard is among the most original and interesting academics working today.
—Jonatan Pallesen defending white nationalist Bo Winegard[8]

In 2019, Pallesen authored a paper in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences with far-right figures Curtis S. Dunkel, Michael A. Woodley of Menie and Emil Kirkegaard.[9] The paper cites the work of Kevin MacDonald, a retired psychologist known for pushing antisemitism.[4]

Pallesen co-authored a paper peddling deeply antisemitic Jewish conspiracy theories about the innate cognitive abilities of Ashkenazi Jews. The paper was immediately flattened by academics from the likes of Stanford and Georgetown for pushing racial pseudoscience, as it alleged that “culture-gene evolution” could influence “Jewish group-level characteristics” such as intelligence or cognitive ability.

Aaron Panofsky, a UCLA professor who co-authored the paper titled “How White nationalists mobilize genetics,” characterized Pallesen's paper as an attempt to revive scientific racism. He explained to The Guardian that its claims about the innateness of Jewish high intelligence “fits into a larger narrative about Jewish conspiracies and the idea that Jews are controlling the problems of the world from behind the scenes.”[3]

Aaron Panofsky in "How White nationalists mobilize genetics" noted how Pallesen's paper is unreliable:

A recent article “Polygenic scores mediate the Jewish phenotypic advantage in educational attainment and cognitive ability compared with Catholics and Lutherans” in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences (Dunkel, Woodley of Menie, Pallesen,, & Kirkegaard, 2019). Its first author, Curtis Dunkel is a psychologist at Western Illinois University, the other three fit the amateur designation: Michael Woodley of Menie is listed as an affiliate with the far right Unz Foundation, and Jonatan Pallesen and Kirkegaard list no affiliation. The article draws on polygenic scores for IQ from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study comparing Jews to Catholics and Protestants. They claim that Jews’ higher polygenic scores cause them to have an IQ advantage. This was rebutted by a group of sociogenomics researchers who showed that given the polygenic score of the Jewish group, their IQ should actually be four standard deviations above non-Jews not slightly above average as it is. This means the polygenic score is actually a function of population stratification and the direct comparison that Dunkel et al. made is fallacious: “The obvious danger of naïve efforts to use polygenic scores is that the influence of various sorts of social differences will be misidentified as genetic influences” (Freese, Domingue, Trejo, Sicinski, & Herd, 2019).[10]

After receiving criticism for co-authoring the paper, Pallesen replied, "I agree with the criticism that the paper is flawed in its methods and conclusions. I have written to the journal and asked if they can withdraw my name from the paper."[4]

In 2021, Pallesen co-authored a paper with Emil Kirkegaard and Noah Carl titled "The Left-liberal Skew of Western Media".[11] Kirkegaard has even made a video about their paper.[12] The paper was promoted by the white nationalist website VDARE.[13] It was not taken seriously by academia.

Palleson is supportive of Emil Kirkegaard's racist pseudojournal OpenPsych. In an editorial put out by OpenPsych responding to criticisms of the journal he is thanked "for comments that improved the manuscript".[14]

Christopher F. Rufo interview[edit]

In January 2024, Pallesen was interviewed by far-right Christopher Rufo on "Claudine Gay’s Data Problem" for the Manhattan Institute's City Journal.[15] Pallesen accused Claudine GayWikipedia of committing supposed data errors in her Ph.D. thesis. Pallesen also whined that in academia, "woke claims tend to find easier acceptance", whereas "non-woke white male researchers, such as Bo Winegard, do meticulous research and are fired."[15]

Far-right podcast speaker[edit]

In 2023, Pallesen was a speaker on the far-right Aporia Magazine podcast with Bo Winegard.[16] In March 2024, Pallesen was a speaker on white nationalist Edward Dutton's podcast.[17]

Other views[edit]

Anti-immigration[edit]

Large-scale Muslim immigration is bad because it is very costly, because they commit many crimes and sexual assaults, and also because many of them are pro-massacre.
—Jonatan Pallesen[18]
Non-Western immigration to Northern European countries is morally indefensible. Non-Western immigrants commit vastly more crime.
—Jonatan Pallesen.[6]
Even illegal immigrants can see the damage immigration does to Danish society.
—Jonatan Pallesen.[19]

Anti-vaccination[edit]

Pallesen claims to be "pro-vaccines" but like all anti-vaxxers spends his time attacking vaccinations on social media. One of his bizarre claims is that COVID-19 vaccines are a "mistake" and nobody knows their long-term effects.[20] He admits his views are not accepted by the medical community.

Today, very few people agree with me that there is potential risk with the new vaccines.[20]

See also[edit]

Selected publications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. https://archive.ph/GovjS
  2. 2.0 2.1 https://archive.is/xKXCi
  3. 3.0 3.1 Scientist Cited in Claudine Gay's Ouster Wrote a Paper Supporting Eugenics. thedailybeast.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists. theguardian.com.
  5. White Supremacist Who Wants Legal Child Porn Doing Business Through Wyoming LLC. cowboystatedaily.com. Archived.
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 https://archive.ph/9OilX
  7. Jonatan Pallesen. danskindustri.dk.
  8. https://archive.is/RfIIH
  9. Dunkel CS, Woodley of Menie MA, Pallesen J, & Kirkegaard EOW (2019). Polygenic scores mediate the Jewish phenotypic advantage in educational attainment and cognitive ability compared with Catholics and Lutherans. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 13(4), 366–375. 10.1037/ebs0000158
  10. Panofsky, Aaron; Dasgupta, Kushan; Iturriaga, Nicole (2020-09-28). "How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry and human biodiversity to counterscience and metapolitics" (in en). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 175 (2): 387–398. doiWikipedia:10.1002/ajpa.24150. ISSN 0002-9483. PMC 9909835. PMID 32986847. 
  11. Kirkegaard, E. O. W., Pallesen, J., Elgaard, E., & Carl, N. (2021). The left-liberal skew of Western media. Journal of Psychological Research 3 (3): 26-43.
  12. The Left-Liberal Skew of Western Media. youtube.com.
  13. It's Official: Leftist Journalists Are An International Disease. vdare.com.
  14. "Editorial: A Response to Criticisms of the OpenPsych Journals". openpsych.net.
  15. 15.0 15.1 "Claudine Gay’s Data Problem" by Christopher F. Rufo (January 4, 2024) City Journal.
  16. Eleusis: Bo Winegard & Jonatan Pallesen reveal the literal meaning of life. aporiamagazine.com.
  17. AI: Can it reverse the decline? | Jonatan Pallesen. jollyheretic.com.
  18. https://x.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1782363390750367903
  19. https://archive.ph/CkzBD
  20. 20.0 20.1 https://archive.is/VsQhr