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.[1][2][3]
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".[4]
Publications[edit]
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.[5] 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.[6][7] Some of Lasker's papers are co-authored with white supremacist Emil Kirkegaard and are published in Intelligence and the Psych journal.[8][9][10]
Lasker's IQ research is mostly supported by the far-right including the "Human Varieties" blog,[11] the white supremacist American Renaissance[12] and has been positively cited by Holocaust denier Lipton Matthews on the neo-Nazi website Counter-Currents.[13]
2020 meta-analysis[edit]
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.[14] 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.[4]
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).[15]
See also[edit]
- Jonatan Pallesen — Danish hereditarian who also writes for the Aporia Magazine.
References[edit]
- ↑ Jailbirds of a Feather Flock Together. aporiamagazine.com.
- ↑ Elites are genetically different. aporiamagazine.com.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Race, Ethnicity, and the Scarr-Rowe Hypothesis: A Cautionary Example of Fringe Science Entering the Mainstream. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Jordan Lasker. scholar.google.com.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ About Those Baby Brainwaves. substack.com. Archived.