Jordan Lasker

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Jordan Lasker is an American eugenicist and hereditarianism pseudoscientist who writes for the far-right Aporia Magazine.[1][2][3]

Lasker is widely suspected of using the online pseudonyms TrannyPornO[4] (Reddit) and Cremieux Recueil (X, Substack).[5][6][7][8][9] Lasker lists his current affiliation as Texas Tech University.[3][10] Under Cremieux, he argues that left-wing and "woke" people are mentally ill.[11][12]Do You Believe That?

Publications[edit]

In 2019, Lasker co-authored "Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability" with Emil Kirkegaard, Bryan J. Pesta and John G. R. Fuerst in the MDPI journal Psych.[13] 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.[3]

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.[14][15] Some of Lasker's papers are co-authored with white supremacist Emil Kirkegaard and are published in Intelligence and the Psych journal.[10][16][17] He has also co-authored an article with Jan te Nijenhuis.[18]

Lasker's IQ research is mostly supported by the far-right including the "Human Varieties" blog[19] and has been positively cited by Holocaust denier Lipton Matthews on the neo-Nazi website Counter-Currents.[20]

Blogger[edit]

In April 2022, Lasker under his real name wrote an article for Richard Hanania's Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI).[21] Since October 2022, he is suspected of being the blogger using the pseudonym Cremieux Recueil.[22] Cremieux Recueil is currently a writer for the far-right Aporia Magazine.[1][2]

Evidence Jordan Lasker is TrannyPornO and Cremieux Recueil[edit]

The Reddit user TrannyPornO has debated NotPoliticallyCorrect a.k.a. RaceRealist about IQ. According to RaceRealist, there is no doubt Lasker is TrannyPornO and this was at one point an "open secret".[23][24] The high probability the owner of TrannyPornO and Cremieux Recueil is the same individual is suggested by their identical interests, digital footprint timeline, similar stated background, use of specific phrases and terms (including insults) and the fact both accounts commonly reference the same literature. Both accounts have repeatedly called people who disagree with them "cranks".[25][26][27] Furthermore, TrannyPornO went almost inactive around the same time Cremieux Recueil became active on Substack as a blogger which suggests that these accounts are not separate individuals (TrannyPornO has made only 3 comments since 2022). Prior to blogging on Substack, Cremieux Recueil only used the first name of the pseudonym ("Cremieux") on the blogging platform Medium.[28] These blog posts overlap in time when TrannyPornO was mostly active (2019-2020) and closely match content posted by both accounts e.g., Cremieux wrote a blog post titled: "Is Eric Turkheimer a Scientist?"[29] which matches comments TrannyPornO wrote on Reddit saying he does not consider Turkheimer a scientist.[30] 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.[31] 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".[32][33] Finally, there is apparently a circulated document "where his numerous alts are cross referenced with his claims/writing styles."[34]

It would be easy to disprove that Lasker is behind these two pseudonyms if the person using them posted proof of their identity. Suspiciously, however, neither of the accounts have done this and both claim they want to remain anonymous.[35] Cremieux Recueil has blocked people on social media who point out the evidence that they are very likely Jordan Lasker.[citation NOT needed]

Lasker's Substack account in his real name (@jordanlasker850318) has liked posts by Razib Khan.[36] This matches behaviour of Cremieux Recueil who is a mutual follower of Khan on X.

In October 2024, an X account named "college hill" compiled evidence in two lengthy threads showing Lasker is almost certainly TrannyPornO and Cremieux Recueil.[37][38]

TrannyPornO and Cremieux both claim to have been members of the high-IQ society Mensa, and both accounts have described the society in very similar terms. TrannyPornO writes that "The people who stay are arrogant hypochondriacs with superiority complexes. In some cases, they're the one guy manipulating the whole socially autistic local group to feel a bit of petty power. It isn't a nice club."[39] Cremieux, meanwhile, writes that "the group as a whole has a bunch of unusual traits like severe allergies, high neuroticism, poor mental health, etc." and "Mensa members are self-selected to be high-IQ losers."[40]

TrannyPornO and Cremieux both identify as Jewish.[41][42] In his interview with Edward Dutton, Cremieux describes himself as a "Yekke" or German Jew. Lasker is a German Jewish surname.

Although Cremieux uses a voice changer for his podcast appearances, his vocal inflections and Southern accent (Lasker is from Georgia) are a dead ringer for Lasker. Compare Lasker's interview with Richard Hanania (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptVS4WnhBO0, no voice alteration) and Cremieux's interview with Razib Khan (https://www.razibkhan.com/p/cremieux-recueil-us-election-2024).

Views[edit]

Cremieux Recueil's account on X is dedicated to posting ableism, pro-natalism[43][44] and eugenics (including support for embryo selection).[45] They have promoted eugenicist Jonathan Anomaly's book Creating Future People.[46] 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.[47]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Jailbirds of a Feather Flock Together. aporiamagazine.com.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Elites are genetically different. aporiamagazine.com.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Racial Pseudoscience on the Faculty by Cid Standifer (October 13, 2022) The Chronicle of Higher Education (archived from 15 Oct 2022 08:45:05 UTC).
  4. https://archive.is/gtbDO
  5. Comment from College Hill. Archived.
  6. Comment from Kalle Leppala. Archived.
  7. Comment from RationalWiki. Archived.
  8. https://archive.is/OBHbD
  9. https://archive.is/SaS5H
  10. 10.0 10.1 Jordan Lasker. scholar.google.com.
  11. Woke Madness. cremieux.xyz. Archived.
  12. Comment by Cremieux. Archived.
  13. Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability. mdpi.com.
  14. 2022 International Society for Intelligence Research Annual Conference. isironline.org.
  15. Understanding Intelligence: Video of Interviews From Attendees of the 2022 ISIR Conference. parrhesia.co.
  16. Intelligence and Religiosity among Dating Site Users. mdpi.com.
  17. White Supremacist Who Wants Legal Child Porn Doing Business Through Wyoming LLC. cowboystatedaily.com. Archived.
  18. Racial and ethnic group differences in the heritability of intelligence: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
  19. https://humanvarieties.org/?s=jordan+lasker
  20. The Reality of the Black-White IQ Gap Is Undeniable. counter-currents.com.
  21. About Those Baby Brainwaves. substack.com. Archived.
  22. Cremieux Recueil. cremieux.xyz.
  23. https://archive.is/SaS5H
  24. https://archive.is/4J0Cm
  25. https://archive.is/1RdIr
  26. https://archive.is/q3lfO
  27. https://archive.is/cqjC0
  28. https://cremieux.medium.com/
  29. https://cremieux.medium.com/is-eric-turkheimer-a-scientist-ed5850b028d1
  30. https://archive.is/UmGQ3
  31. https://archive.is/PFDIA
  32. https://archive.is/POYKJ
  33. https://rpubs.com/JLLJ/
  34. https://archive.is/joy7H
  35. https://archive.is/KviUA
  36. https://substack.com/@jordanlasker850318/likes
  37. https://archive.is/tJg2P
  38. https://archive.is/EsCd7
  39. https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/c98cvv/comment/esv6q4n/
  40. https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/mensa-the-above-average-iq-society
  41. https://www.reddit.com/r/RedLetterMedia/comments/ggzx1s/comment/fq72njm/
  42. https://www.jollyheretic.com/p/bad-science-vs-based-science-cremieux
  43. https://archive.is/MIBOE
  44. https://archive.is/M9OGD
  45. Tweet.
  46. Tweet.
  47. Search. X.com.