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Jordan Lasker (known as Crémieux[1][2]) is an American white nationalist, anti-vegan, pro-natalist, far-right 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 white nationalist Aporia Magazine.[3][4][5]
Lasker lists his current affiliation as Texas Tech University.[5][6] He claims to be a bioinformatician working at a genomics company.[7] 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".[8] He has attended the far-right Natal Conference, Manifest 2024 and Infinita City 2025.[1][9] Lasker's comments on his Crémieux X.com account are shared by Elon Musk.[10]
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.[11] 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.[5]
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.[12][13] Some of Lasker's papers are co-authored with white supremacist Emil Kirkegaard and are published in Intelligence and the Psych journal.[6][14][15]
Lasker's IQ research is mostly supported by the far-right including the "Human Varieties" blog,[16] the white supremacist American Renaissance[17] and has been positively cited by Holocaust denier Lipton Matthews on the neo-Nazi website Counter-Currents.[18]
A 2025 article noted that "Lasker has written extensively on population genetics in ways that scholars argue align with white nationalist ideology".[2]
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.[19] 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.[8]
Stanford Classical Liberalism Seminars
In 2024, Lasker hosted a Stanford Classical Liberalism seminar entitled "The Academic and Career Trajectories of Underqualified College Admits" [20] but the associated video is no longer available online.[21]
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).[22]
Crémieux Recueil
Lasker uses the name Crémieux Recueil on X.com and Substack.[1] He attended Manifest 2024 and Infinita City 2025. According to an article in The Guardian published in March 2025:
While previous investigations have focused on Lasker’s alleged history across several Reddit accounts, the Guardian obtained a scrape of the website of the 2024 Manifest conference via a source whose identity is being protected over fears of retaliation...
Source code from the site detailing conference registrations indicates that Cremieux, a guest speaker there, registered under an email associated with Lasker.
When the Guardian reached out on that Lasker-linked email to ask about the registration and other evidence pointing to his operation of the Cremieux, Lasker replied with a message containing a promotional code for discounted subscriptions to the Cremieux substack.[1]
A detailed 2025 article by Rachel Adjogah titled "Unmasking Crémieux Recueil" with special thanks to David Gerard and Nick Rodelo also listed "overwhelming" evidence that Jordan Lasker is the far-right X.com account Crémieux.[23]
Lasker posting as Crémieux has told his followers to attend Infinita City 2025 which he spoke at.[9][24] Lasker as Crémieux delivered a presentation "Foundational Data for Foundational Models".[9] A photograph of Lasker was taken of him delivering the presentation but was quickly deleted by Infinita City a few hours after being posted on their official X.com account. However, archived copies remain proving beyond doubt that Lasker and Crémieux are the same person.[9] Eugenicist Jonathan Anomaly was an organizer and speaker at the event.[25][26]
Beliefs
Anti-veganism
Lasker opposes vegan and vegetarian diets. He claims that vegetarian mothers are malnourished.[27] He bases this view on a single study from 2000.
He claims that vegan diets entail "nutritional deficits".[28] To back this up he cites a single prospective study from 2022 on vegetarian diets and risk of all-cause mortality.[29] The study did not find nutritional deficits on a vegan diet; it found that the risk of all-cause mortality did not significantly differ among different diet groups.[29] Lasker is incapable of reading epidemiological studies properly and will often misrepresent scientific data. Depending on which nutritional topic he is discussing he will ignore the Bradford Hill criteria and hierarchy of evidence for a single study if the results support his viewpoint.
If an epidemiological study is conducted on red meat, Lasker will oppose the study on confounding grounds. He claims that "nutrition science is filled to the brim with embarrassingly low quality research",[30] but is perfectly fine with citing an epidemiological study if the results are negative for vegan diets.
Pro-natalism
Lasker advocates pro-natalism and argues that countries will collapse because they are not having enough children.[10] Similar to Elon Musk he denies environmental consequences of overpopulation. He is a speaker at Natal Conference 2025 with other far-right extremists including Raw Egg Nationalist.[1][2]
See also
- Human Diversity Foundation — An organization that Lasker is associated with.
- Jonatan Pallesen — Danish hereditarian who also writes for the Aporia Magazine.
External links
References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 US natalist conference to host race-science promoters and eugenicists. theguardian.com. Published on March 3, 2025. Archived.
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 Choueiry, Lucciana (March 21, 2025). Eugenics Controversy Looms Over Natal Conference at UT’s AT&T Center. austinchronicle.com. "Jordan Lasker (aka Crémieux): A speaker with known ties to race science, Lasker has written extensively on population genetics in ways that scholars argue align with white nationalist ideology".
- ↑ Jailbirds of a Feather Flock Together. aporiamagazine.com.
- ↑ Elites are genetically different. aporiamagazine.com.
- ↑ Jump up to: 5.0 5.1 5.2 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).
- ↑ Jump up to: 6.0 6.1 Jordan Lasker. scholar.google.com.
- ↑ Baby Brainwaves and Broken Science | Jordan Lasker & Richard Hanania. youtube.com.
- ↑ Jump up to: 8.0 8.1 Race, Ethnicity, and the Scarr-Rowe Hypothesis: A Cautionary Example of Fringe Science Entering the Mainstream. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
- ↑ Jump up to: 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Jordan Lasker at Infinita City 2025. Archived.
- ↑ Jump up to: 10.0 10.1 Steffens, Von Frauke (2025). What does the right-wing alliance behind Elon Musk want?. faz.net. (in German) translated: "Musk also shared several posts on X by Cremieux, identified by the Guardian as Jordan Lasker. Lasker advocates the theory, supported by Musk, that all countries will eventually collapse because not enough women are having children. Proponents of the "pronatalist" ideology express, with varying degrees of clarity, that it's also about which groups reproduce".
- ↑ Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability. mdpi.com.
- ↑ 2022 International Society for Intelligence Research Annual Conference. isironline.org.
- ↑ Understanding Intelligence: Video of Interviews From Attendees of the 2022 ISIR Conference. parrhesia.co.
- ↑ Intelligence and Religiosity among Dating Site Users. mdpi.com.
- ↑ White Supremacist Who Wants Legal Child Porn Doing Business Through Wyoming LLC. cowboystatedaily.com. Archived.
- ↑ Search results for Jordan Lasker, Human Varieties.
- ↑ No Skin in the Game. amren.com.
- ↑ The Reality of the Black-White IQ Gap Is Undeniable. counter-currents.com.
- ↑ Racial and ethnic group differences in the heritability of intelligence: A systematic review and meta-analysis. sciencedirect.com.
- ↑ Stanford Classical Liberalism Seminar: Jordan Lasker - The Academic and Career Trajectories of Underqualified College Admits (March 14, 2024) Stanford Classical Liberalism Seminars (Retrieved March 3, 2025)
- ↑ "This video isn't available anymore" YouTube (retrieved March 3, 2025)
- ↑ About Those Baby Brainwaves. substack.com. Archived.
- ↑ Unmasking Crémieux Recueil. polemics.md.
- ↑ https://archive.is/Tbx8t
- ↑ https://archive.is/yf0MR
- ↑ https://archive.is/6dD0d
- ↑ https://archive.ph/UKAMd
- ↑ https://archive.ph/TgITx
- ↑ Jump up to: 29.0 29.1 https://jhpn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41043-023-00460-9
- ↑ https://archive.is/SSOin