Talk:Bryan Pesta

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And the ratwiki, like most rat wikis, is just a collection of slurs and information used for doxxing and to coordinate cancel attacks. Shouldn't something called 'rationalist' focus less on unsupported slandal and personal information? Slandal salesman (talk) 17:55, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Is "slandal" like a brand of flip-flops that squeak so much people will yell defamatory terms at you? --It's-a me, LeftyGreenMario! 17:59, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

"But I thought this was supposed to be RATIONALWiki!" Drink! Bongolian (talk) 18:30, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Jon Cutchins is an impersonation troll account created by Mikemikev. The real Cutchins has spoken out against the impersonations. 167.172.49.185 (talk) 19:18, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

So he's not trying to sell me slandals!!?!? :( --It's-a me, LeftyGreenMario! 19:26, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

That's slandalous! Bongolian (talk) 19:28, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Trolling seems to be coming from a recent substack article by Emil Kirkegaard. Perhaps even more bizarre than the impersonations in the substack comments section and now here are false claims myself, Bongolian, @Johns, the creator (@Jinx) of Bryan Pesta's article and 4 or 5 other accounts are all "Oliver Smith" (???). Ernor (talk)

Oliver himself sent me a Twitter DM about that Substack article. I am not Oliver Smith (or Bongolian, Ernor, Johns, or anyone else), though I doubt many people reading this needed to be persuaded of that, and the few who do will not believe me anyway. Jinx (talk) 00:45, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

He lost his frivolous lawsuit

Did an update to page for anyone who cares about his lawsuit loss. The order can be read here. The judge also criticised Emil Kirkegaard and John Fuerst for their deception:

Pesta worked with several individuals to research the correlation between intelligence and ancestry – John Fuerst, Emile Kirkegaard and Jordan Lasker. Correspondence from Fuerst and Kirkegaard to Pesta suggests that the group was trying to coverup the true reason for accessing the NIH data. ECF Doc. 38-35 and ECF Doc. 38-38. They refer to their data requests as “sneaky” and as “mask[ing] the nature of the study.” Pesta was the only one in this group who could access the TCP data through his association with CSU.

I have to say, Pesta is not exactly the smartest knife in the drawer is he? These emails where Kirkegaard bragged about being "sneaky" he disclosed to the court. All of these HBD clowns were spamming links to Pesta's lawsuit when it began but now he's lost they're all silent. Kirkegaard won't even mention the outcome and probably feels humiliated. 45.9.251.115 (talk) 23:08, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Bryan Pesta talked about bleaching his anus

https://skepchick.org/2024/10/nazis-are-funding-youtubers-to-spread-pseudoscience/

I met Bryan Pesta, a psychologist working at a university in Ohio who loved really crass dick jokes. Like, here’s one example from the sister forum of the JREF in which he describes his ideal method of bleaching his anus. That was par for the course for Bryan but whatever, it was the early cringe shock days of the internet. I became friends with his wife, who appeared in the first Skepchick calendar back when we did those. It looks like they’re now divorced so I won’t mention her name or show her photo and just wish her the very best.

View the disgusting post here:

https://skepticalcommunity.com/viewtopic.php?p=322877#p322877

Dirty old man. He apparently was bleaching his hairy ass because he wore nappies and pooed himself in his 50s and 60s. Absolutely disgusting. WagonWheel (talk) 15:48, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

The source checks out, I have no idea why he was bleaching his anus but that is what he wrote. We can add it to the article. Psychologist Guy (talk) 16:00, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

Horrible and weird. On another note, he's apparently appealing the summary judgment in the frivolous lawsuit he filed. I will try to dig up a source. Anti-eugenicist (talk) 17:10, 24 October 2024 (UTC)