Richard Haier

thumb|right|165px|Richard Haier, 2023
Richard Haier is an American psychologist, Professor Emeritus in the Pediatric Neurology Division of the School of Medicine at University of California, Irvine.
Haier is an hereditarian: he has a long association with the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR), is a disciple of Arthur Jensen, a supportive colleague of Bo Winegard and Charles Murray,"Criticized" does not mean "debunked". Most of the technical criticisms of TBC actually have been debunked by new empirical data that support the original general claims (the actual claims, not the ones falsely attributed) Richard Haier (August 13, 2018) Twitter/X an editor of Intelligence and an author for Quillette.Richard Haier Quillette (retrieved January 15, 2023)
== Haier and Jensen ==
thumb|right|365px|Richard Haier and Arthur Jensen 1988
The Southern Poverty Law Center considers Jensen a white nationalist.Arthur Jensen (Retrieved January 18, 2024) Southern Poverty Law Center Richard Haier is one of his most devoted disciples.
During his Distinguished Contributor Interview with at the 2012 ISIR conference, Haier was asked who his heroes were. He mentioned Hans Eysenck a supporter of Arthur JensenHans J. Eysenck, 81, a Heretic In the Field of Psychotherapy William H. Honan (September 10, 1997) New York Times and Jensen.Distinguished Contributor Interview: Rich Haier Part 2 Timothy Bates (retrieved January 18, 2024) YouTube
For his 2021 Lifetime Achievement Address Haier said: "In 1988, Arthur Jensen actually arranged for me to get private funding for a small conference of about a dozen people, to discuss the impact that this kind of PET scanning would be having on intelligence research."Richard Haier: ISIR 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award Address ISIR (retrieved January 18, 2024 YouTube
In his interview with Haier said:Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences Podcast #302 (Jul 14, 2022) YouTube.
"It doesn't matter if you are a racist" appears to be a guiding principle of the hereditarian project, and would explain why so many racists, white nationalists and white supremacists have participated along with Jensen, in conferences of the International Society for Intelligence Research and why so many racists, white nationalists and white supremacists have been published, along with Jensen, in the hereditarian journal Intelligence.
===Jensenism===
Haier often refers to Jensen's paper The Controversy about Race and Intelligence Research | Richard Haier Robinson's Podcast Clips (Retrieved January 18, 2024) YouTube Arthur Jensen expressed the same view at the end of his 1969 article. Richard Haier (September 9, 2021) Twitter/X and he apparently considers this, more than anything else, the most convincing evidence that Black Americans as a group have had lower test scores due to genetic deficiencies. The paper was a review of some government-funded "compensatory education programs" and since they did not succeed in improving test scores, Jensen concluded that "Intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, is about 80 percent heritable." 
Social psychologist discussed the problem with the term "heritability":
The article also discusses the 
====Remove all the history====
The tests that Jensen examined were administered to Black children during the era of Jim Crow laws which lasted until 1965, a mere four years before Jensen's paper was published. In 1967 the Loving v. Virginia decision ruled laws against "inter-racial" marriage were unconstitutional, which was only two years before Jensen's paper. 
During the time period that Jensen reviewed, the United States was such a hostile environment for Black children's educational prospects that a librarian called the police on astronaut when he was nine years old and tried to check out books from the library:
This was in 1959, only ten years before Arthur Jensen (and his disciples like Richard Haier) decided Black children are hopeless.
This historical context is ignored or denied by hereditarians, evidence of the hereditarian political strategy to remove all the history.
====Jensenism in the twenty-first century====
Jensen's beliefs, called were carried on directly through the "Institute for the Study of Educational Differences"Institute Of Mental Chronometry Form 990-PF for period ending December 2004 (retrieved January 18, 2024) ProPublica and under that name received at least $337,500 from the Pioneer Fund.University of Delaware Inter-Departmental Memo Its name was changed to "Institute of Mental Chronometry." The organization is closely tied to ISIR, which Haier has been involved in during most of its history (See ).
==Hereditarians and libertarians==
As a professor at University of California, Irvine, Haier was a signatory to Linda Gottfredson's "Mainstream Science on Intelligence" which was an effort by hereditarians to defend The Bell Curve, written by Charles Murray and 
Among its claims:
* "Heritability estimates range from 0.4 to 0.8 … indicating genetics plays a bigger role than environment in creating IQ differences".
* "Although the environment is important in creating IQ differences, we do not know yet how to manipulate it".
Studies indicate that poverty has a large impact on IQ test resultsStudy finds poverty reduces brain power Kate Kelland
(August 29, 2013) Reuters and IQ is related to family income.Study finds poverty reduces brain power How Childhood Poverty Affects the Brain] (March 18, 2016) Penn Medicine News These studies demonstrate that we do know how to manipulate the environment, but the method would require the large-scale reduction of poverty, as in the case of government action.Government’s Pandemic Response Turned a Would-Be Poverty Surge Into a Record Poverty Decline Danilo Trisi Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (August 29, 2023)] However social program spending goes against the beliefs of confirmed libertarians such as Charles Murray.
Libertarian organizations have a history of both defending hereditarians, as when defended James Watson's racist claims,James D Watson - Another Gadfly Swatted (January 28, 2011) "The Atlas Society'' and financially supporting them as with Charles Murray's long history of taking money from two libertarian organizations, the Manhattan Institute and the American Enterprise Institute. (see Charles Murray#Wingnut welfare).
Haier gave an invited paper to the American Enterprise Institute in 2007 on "Brain imaging studies of intelligence in men and women."Partial List of Lectures (Retrieved January 18, 2024) Richard Haier website It was part of the "Women and Science" event that included Christina Hoff Sommers, and Charles Murray.Women and Science (October 1, 2007] American Enterprise Institute
===The hereditarian equation===
thumb|right|500px|Federal Reserve: Household net worth and income, by race and ethnicity.[https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/wealth-inequality-and-the-racial-wealth-gap-20211022.html Figure 1. Household net worth and income, by race and ethnicity] FEDS Notes (October 22, 2021) Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
In spite of the many studies that demonstrate the influence of poverty on IQ test results, hereditarians believe that low intelligence causes poverty.
Richard Haier is a firm believer in the hereditarian equation (intelligence = money) as shown in his interview with Scott Barry Kaufman in 2020:
The error of the hereditarian equation can be quickly found in statistics from the Federal Reserve. The net worth of Whites over Blacks has increased enormously in the past thirty years. It seems doubtful that even Richard Haier would claim White intelligence increased genetically compared to Black intelligence in only thirty years.
Haier repeats the claims about low IQ Americans in an interview with Lex Fridman.The Bell Curve: The most controversial book ever in science - Richard Haier and Lex Fridman Lex Clips (Retrieved January 17, 2024)The Bell Curve: The most controversial book ever in science | Richard Haier and Lex Fridman Transcript (Retrieved January 18, 2024) During the interview Fridman lists for Haier four critiques of The Bell Curve by Stephen Jay Gould. Instead of addressing Gould's critiques directly, Haier launches into an attack on Gould for his political views, a standard response by hereditarians to the mention of Gould's name.The Punctuated Politics of Stephen Jay Gould Michael Shermer (October 31, 2003) michaelshermer.com Fridman, who appears to have done no research prior to the interview, does not point out — for his listeners, Haier must already know — that Murray is an avowed libertarian who has spent his entire career on wingnut welfare. Nor does Fridman ask Haier about studies used in The Bell Curve funded by the Pioneer Fund or the use of work by J. Philippe Rushton.
To Haier, the science claims of Murray, political scientist, are more worthwhile than those of Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionary biologist, and of the two, only Gould's political views are capable of biasing his scientific understanding.
===Haier's recommendation===
Haier is a fervent believer in the American hereditarian assumption, so when Fridman asks him for a solution to improve Black Americans' prospects, he recommends altering their defective genes:The Bell Curve: The most controversial book ever in science | Richard Haier and Lex Fridman (Jul 19, 2022) YouTube.
Haier spends 15 minutes dancing around, bashing Gould and promoting Charles Murray's two most recent, and most racist books Human Diversity and Facing Reality. 
Then finally…
The white nationalists at American Renaissance liked the interview so much that they shared it on their website.Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences (July 14, 2022) American Renaissance. (archive retrieved January 17, 2025)
Haier is spending his emeritus years appearing on podcasts to promote that "unusual" policy approach.
==International Society for Intelligence Research==
===Mainstream Science on Intelligence===
The Southern Poverty Law Center said of the paper:
Mainstream Science on Intelligence is a sort of founding document for the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR). Not only is it featured on the ISIR website, described as "a classic"ISIR Online - Resources (accessed January 15, 2024) 'International Society for Intelligence Research. but many of the signatories went on to participate in ISIR governance and conferences. These include Gottfedson, Jensen, Haier, David Lubinski, Eysenck, Rushton, Lynn, Robert Plomin and Thomas Bouchard.Draper’s Millions: The Philanthropic Wellspring of Modern Race Science by Angela Saini (Dec 16, 2022) Undark. Several of these are also recipients of money from the Pioneer Fund. 
The Bell Curve and papers by Plomin, Bouchard, Rushton and Lynn were cited in the manifesto of the  — see .
===Organization roles===
Haier was Secretary/Treasurer of the organization in 2012-2014, and President in 2016.ISIR Officers International Society for Intelligence Research.
===ISIR Conferences ===
ISIR has been holding conferences since 2000, except 2020. The conference locations alternate typically between the United States one year, and outside of the United States the next year, usually in Europe. In 2021 the conference was held online. 
ISIR conferences are a who's who of white nationalists, race pseudoscience promoters, and right-wing political operatives.
At the 2012 ISIR conference, Richard Haier expressed his appreciation for ISIR:
====2002====
thumb|right|365px|ISIR conference regular J. Philippe Rushton speaking at an American Renaissance conference
Haier first participated in an ISIR conference in 2002ISIR Program 2002 International Society for Intelligence Research. which featured Arthur Jensen presenting an invited address on "Mental Chronometry." Although has since been proven a dead-end for hereditarianism, the term lives on in the name of an organization founded by Jensen and other members of the ISIR, called the Institute of Mental Chronometry. In 2023 the Institute gave a grant of over half a million dollars to two individuals associated with the ISIR, Emily Willoughby and James Lee.Lee and Willoughby Awarded Grant to Explore Cognitive Ability through Innovative Research (August 17, 2023) University of Michigan, Psychology. 
Jensen's invited address was chaired by Helmuth Nyborg, who in 2023 was known to be involved in the right-wing extremist organization Scandza Forum. After Jensen's address was a session chaired by Richard Haier "Cognitive Processes and Intelligence". Haier presented "Entorhinal Cortex Hyper-metab" and "Is 'g' Only in the Frontal Lobe?"
Also featured at the 2002 conference was J. Philippe Rushton, giving presentations on "African and non-African Students" and "Black White Differences." The same year, Rushton became president of the Pioneer Fund.Jean-Philippe Rushton (retrieved January 15, 2024) Southern Poverty Law Center.
2002 was also the year that Rushton and Richard Lynn appeared at an American Renaissance conferenceFifth American Renaissance Conference (2002) (Retrieved January 19, 2024) American Renaissance. along with people like Jared Taylor. They presented a speech "In Search of the African IQ." 
The association of Rushton and Lynn with an extremist racist organization had no negative impact on future invitations to participate in ISIR conferences for Rushton or Lynn. Given the other extreme racists and white supremacists who have appeared at ISIR conferences, it likely had a positive impact on future ISIR invitations.
====2003-2011====
Haier gave presentations at the 2005 conference, and chaired a symposium.ISIR Program 2005 International Society for Intelligence Research. Rushton and Jensen also participated in the conference as did Kevin MacDonald, a white nationalist who was influential in the development of the Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence hypothesis. 
Haier gave presentations at the 2006 conference.ISIR Program 2006 International Society for Intelligence Research. Rushton participated in the conference as well as Richard Lynn. 
In addition to Haier, the 2007 conference included Rushton, Jensen, MacDonald, Lynn, Heiner Rindermann and ISIR 2007 Program International Society for Intelligence Research. who would go on to co-author a paper with Rushton that was later retracted,Retracted: Do pigmentation and the melanocortin system modulate aggression and sexuality in humans as they do in other animals? by J. Philippe Rushton & Donald I. Templer (2012) Personality and Individual Differences 53(1):4-8. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2012.02.015. but still found its way into the 2022 Buffalo shooter's manifesto.
Haier participated in a session called "Gray Matter and Intelligence Factors: Is There a Neuro-g?" at the 2008 conference.ISIR 2008 Program International Society for Intelligence Research. Rushton, Lynn, Nyborg, Rindemann and Gottfredson were among the conference participants.
Haier participated in the 2009 conference which included a session by Rushton and Jensen called "The Rise and Fall of the Flynn Effect as a Reason to Expect a Narrowing of the Black-White IQ Gap." Gerhard Meisenberg, Michael A. Woodley and Charles Murray also participated, as did who gave a presentation entitled "Why Don’t Smart Kids Have Sex? A Twin-Control Study."ISIR 2009 Program International Society for Intelligence Research.
2009 was the year that Woodley published "Is Homo sapiens polytypic? Human taxonomic diversity and its implications",Is Homo sapiens polytypic? Human taxonomic diversity and its implications by Michael A. Woodley (2010) Medical Hypotheses 74(1):195-201. Epub 2009 Aug 19. doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2009.07.046. which would later be featured in a graphic in the manifesto of the 2022 Buffalo mass-murderer.
The 2010 conference featured, in addition to Haier, a talk by Arthur Jensen called "Ratio Scale Measurement of Mental Processes by Means of Mental Chronometry" and Rushton and Templer gave a talk on "IQ, Pigmentocracy, Crime, and Income in 50 U.S. States."ISIR 2010 Program International Society for Intelligence Research.
====2012-2021====
 thumb|right|265px|Richard Haier at the 2012 ISIR conference, predicting the future of brain imaging
thumb|right|265px|David Lubinski and Linda Gottfredson enjoying themselves at Gottfredsons's Distinguished Contributor Interview at the 2016 ISIR conference
The program for the 2012 conference featured Francis Galton on the cover and inside noted the deaths of Jensen and Rushton. Haier received "Distinguished Contributor Award." The conference included participation from Michael Woodley and Aurelio J. Figueredo.ISIR 2012 Program International Society for Intelligence Research.
At the end of the program, Haier affirmed his devotion to the hereditarian belief that intelligence equals money and mentions Jensen's "mental chronometry."
The 2014 conference program was a minimalist two-page "overview." It indicated that Haier chaired a talk on "Individual differences vs group averages: Time to choose one and abandon the other for brain imaging studies?" Richard Lynn, Michael A. Woodley and Gerhard Meisenberg were conference participants.ISIR 2014 Program International Society for Intelligence Research.
At the 2015 conference,ISIR 2015 Program International Society for Intelligence Research. Haier introduced Steven Pinker's "President’s Invited Address: Intelligence Research and the Craft of Writing" available on YouTube.Steven Pinker 2015 Invited Address to the International Society for Intelligence Research by Timothy Bates (Oct 13, 2015) YouTube. During the speech Pinker suggested that opponents of race pseudoscience claims, like and Stephen Jay Gould, have an advantage over proponents of race pseudoscience because they are better writers. Also participating in the conference: Quillette author Alice Dreger,Alice Dreger Quillette. Woodley, Nyborg and Rindermann.
Haier participated in the 2017 conference along with Willoughby, Lee, Toby Young, Emil Kirkegaard and John Fuerst of the Ulster Institute for Social Research.ISIR 2017 Program International Society for Intelligence Research. Kirkegaard and Fuerst presented "Genomic ancestry, cognitive ability and parental social status." Steven Pinker was interviewed by David Lubinski for the "ISIR Distinguished Contributor Interview, 2017" available on YouTube.ISIR Distinguished Contributor Interview, 2017: Professor Steven Pinker by Timothy Bates (Jul 22, 2017) YouTube. During the interview Lubinski asked Pinker how he became so interested in "human psychological diversity" when previously he had "found individual differences 'uninteresting'." It seemed that what changed his mind were people who would eventually be ISIR conference participants:
At the online conference in 2021 Haier received the "Lifetime Achievement Award."ISIR 2021 Program International Society for Intelligence Research. Other conference participants included the "23andMe Research Team," Quillette author Damien Morris,Damian Morris (retrieved January 16, 2024) Quillette. Rindermann, Emily Willoughby, James Lee, Michael Woodley and Gregory Clark an economist, whose work, according to a review in The Economist of his book The Son Also Rises, "…implies, however, that poor blacks remain so because they are descended from people with low social competence; discrimination is irrelevant, except to the extent that it limits intermarriage with other groups."Have and Have Not: A new study shows just how slow it is to change social class (February 1, 2014) The Economist.The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility by Gregory Clark (2015) Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691168377.
====2022====
Haier was not listed as a participant in 2022, but Pinker was an invited speaker at the conference and gave a speech titled "Rationality: What it is, why it seems scarce, why it matters."ISIR 2022 Conference program International Society for Intelligence Research.
2022 was a notable year for two past participants of ISIR conferences, Emil Kirkegaard and Michael A. Woodley.
=====Emil Kirkegaard is banned=====
thumb|right|465px|Haier agrees, 2022
A controversy erupted in 2022, prior to the annual ISIR conference when Abdel Abdellaoui refused to participate in the conference due to the presence of Emil Kirkegaard. Abdellaoui published an article in Medium complaining about the presence of racists at ISIR conferences,How to keep flies away from our picknick by Adbel Adbellaoui (July 26, 2022) Medium. and on Twitter, Haier claimed to agree.I agree by Richard Haier (July 26, 2022) Twitter (archived from July 26, 2022).
This is remarkable in view of the fact that Haier is an admirer of Charles Murray, who is so racist he approves of race-based job discrimination and donated money to Emil Kirkegaard (and Bo Winegard). Haier is also friendly with Bo Winegard, who holds views on race indistinguishable from those of Kirkegaard, and Winegard's racist Substack Aporia defended Kirkegaard against Abdellaoui.There's something rotten in the state of science by Matthew Archer (August 6, 2022) Aporia. 
Also noteworthy is Abdellaoui's appearance on the podcast of Razib Khan,A behavior geneticist in the 21st century (Apr 23, 2021) Razib Khan. since Khan is as devoted to race pseudoscience as Kirkegaard. Abdellaoui also signed Khan's open letter protesting the fact that E. O. Wilson's race pseudoscience beliefs had been mentioned in Scientific American.Setting the record straight: open letter on E.O. Wilson's legacy (January 18, 2022) Razib Khan.
Richard Haier was president of the ISIR in 2016 and so could have prevented the participation of Kirkegaard in that year's conference, but did not.ISIR 2016 Program International Society for Intelligence Research.
Given the utter incoherence of Haier's and Abdellaoui's protests, claiming to be against racism at ISIR conferences while simultaneously allying with those who share Kirkegaard's racist views, it seems more likely that what Haier and Abdellaoui objected to about Kirkegaard is his lack of academic credentials in a relevant field, rather than his racism.
As a result of the controversy, Emil Kirkegaard was disinvited from the conference. But other racialists, who often agree with Kirkegaard on race, were in attendance: Willoughby, Rindermann and Nyborg.
=====Emil Kirkegaard returns=====
In 2024 Emil Kirkegaard appeared at the annual ISIR conference in Zurich to give a talk on "Imputing intelligence data into existing datasets using the MMPI."
=====Michael A. Woodley and the 2022 Buffalo shooter manifesto=====
thumb|right|400px|A screen capture of a page from the Buffalo shooter's manifesto. A chart in the upper-right corner of the image displays Woodley's work. Below the image are three of many links that the mass-murderer used to justify his views on race. The links shown are: a paper by Thomas Bouchard, Jr.; a paper co-written by Robert Plomin and Ian Deary; and an article in The New York Times written by Nicholas Wade
thumb|right|400px|The Buffalo shooter used this graphic from The Bell Curve in his manifesto
thumb|right|400px|Richard Haier admires Charles Murray, December 2023
On May 14, 2022, 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron New York. Gendron had written a manifesto prior to the massacre and in it cited claims made by Michael Woodley.Payton Gendron Manifesto 
On June 9, 2022, The New York Times ran an article with the headline, "A Racist Researcher, Exposed by a Mass Shooting" and a subhead "The work of Michael Woodley, a Briton who was cited by the teenager who killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, included pseudoscientific theories that have been used to justify racism."A Racist Researcher, Exposed by a Mass Shooting by Monika Pronczuk & Koba Ryckewaert (June 9, 2022) The New York Times.
The article demonstrated how lucrative race pseudoscience can be:
Razib Khan, Steve Sailer and Gregory Cochran also received funding from The Unz Foundation.Unz Foundation IRS Form 990-PF for the year 2009 Candid (Foundation Center).
As a result of the publicity:
=====Bouchard, Plomin, Deary, Murray and the 2022 Buffalo shooter manifesto=====
Although Woodley was singled out by The New York Times, the Buffalo mass-murderer's 180-page manifesto cites many race pseudoscience sources. Some of them, like Woodley, have been participants at International Society for Intelligence Research conferences:
*"Genetic Influence on Human Psychological Traits: A Survey" by Thomas Bouchard, Jr.:Genetic Influence on Human Psychological Traits: A Survey by Thomas Bouchard, Jr. (2004) Current Directions in Psychological Science 13(4):48-151. doi:10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00295.x. Bouchard is associated with ISIR and has received money from the Pioneer Fund.
::The shooter's comment for the citation: "Most if not all psychological traits are substantially influenced by genetics."
*"Genetics and intelligence differences: five special findings" by Robert Plomin and Ian Deary:Genetics and intelligence differences: five special findings by R. Plomin & I. J. Deary (2015) Molecular Psychiatry 20:98-108. doi:10.1038/mp.2014.105. Both Plomin and Deary are ISIR conference participants.
 
::The shooter's comment: "All behavioral traits are substantially heritable. Evidence for this is ubiquitous."
*The retracted article, "Do pigmentation and the melanocortin system modulate aggression and sexuality in humans as they do in other animals?" by J. Philippe Rushton and Donald I. Templar
::The shooter's comment: "Darker pigmented people average higher levels of aggression and sexual activity, and lower IQ."
*"Racial and ethnic differences in psychopathic personality" by Richard Lynn:Racial and ethnic differences in psychopathic personality by Richard Lynn Personality and Individual Differences 32(2):273-316. doi:10.1016/S0191-8869(01)00029-0. Lynn was an ISIR conference regular.
::The shooter's comment: "Blacks are 50% more likely to cheat on their spouses than Whites. Blacks have less perseverance than other races."
*The Limits of Democratization: Climate, Intelligence, and Resource Distribution by The Limits of Democratization: Climate, Intelligence, and Resource Distribution by Tatu Vanhanen (2009) Washington Summit Publishers. ISBN 1593680317. Vanhanen also co-authored a book with Richard Lynn called IQ and the Wealth of Nations by Richard Lynn & Tatu Vanhanen (2002) Praeger. ISBN 027597510X.
::The shooter's comment: "The world’s thirty least intelligent countries (except for Haiti) are all in sub-Saharan Africa.
In addition to Woodley's fellow ISIR conference participants, the shooter also cited an article by journalist in The New York TimesAdventures in Very Recent Evolution by Nicholas Wade (July 20, 2010) The New York Times. Wade is a promoter of race pseudoscience and the Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence hypothesis. 
::The shooter's comment: "Over 2000 genes have been subject to recent (post out-of-Africa) evolution. Europeans and Asians are subject to more recent evolution than Africans."
Another graphic used in the shooter's manifesto is from Charles Murray's The Bell Curve.
It was found that a large portion Gendron's manifesto, up to 80%, was plagiarized from other violent white supremacists.Online Radicalization Case Study of a Mass Shooting: the Payton Gendron Manifesto by Daniela Peterka-Bentona1 & Bond Benton (2023) Journal for Deradicalization 35:
====2023====
The 2023 conference included Haier, Gregory Clark, Willoughby, Steven Pinker and yes, Michael A. Woodley.ISIR 2023 Conference program International Society for Intelligence Research.
Woodley achieved notoriety because his work was cited by the 2022 Buffalo mass-murderer. However, unlike the case with Emil Kirkegaard, Woodley's connection to the ISIR was not publicized. As a result, and unlike Kirkegaard, Woodley had not embarrassed the ISIR, so they had no reason to punish him. He just happened to be singled out for his influence on the shooter, but it could have just as easily been the other ISIR participants whose work was used in the manifesto: Bouchard, Plomin, Deary or Murray. Why would the ISIR want to part ways with them? After all, they (along with the late Templer, Vanhanen, Rushton and Lynn) have been, so far, the most impactful hereditarians of the 21st century.
===Intelligence===
As the editor of Intelligence, the publication of the International Society for Intelligence Research, Haier is an important figure in the quest to promote impactful hereditarianism:
Although Emil Kirkegaard was banished from ISIR conferences in 2022, he was still being published in Intelligence in 2023, while Haier was editor.On group differences in the heritability of intelligence: A reply to Giangrande and Turkheimer (2022) by Bryan J. Pesta, Jan te Nijenhuis, Jordan Lasker, Emil O.W. Kirkegaard, John G.R. Fuerst (2023) Intelligence 98. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2023.101737. Kirkegaard co-authored the piece with other extremists: Fuerst, Jordan LaskerJordan Lasker Google Scholar. Jan te Nijenhuis and Bryan Pesta.
====Resignation====
In December 2024 Noah Carl reported in Aporia that Haier was stepping down as editor-in-chief of Intelligence: 
Haier's X/Twitter account confirms his status as the former editor of Ingelligence as of January 2025.Richard Haier account "X/Twitter" (archived January 17, 2025)
==Richard Haier and "race differences"==
===Denial of racism===
In his interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, Haier claims that he has avoided commenting on race differences, while speculating that Arthur Jensen had "a touch of Asperger syndrome." He claims that there was "no racism" in private conversations with "players in that (race difference) space." 
=== Alliances with racists and white nationalists ===
Like Steven Pinker,Pinker on "What the Dog Saw." by Malcolm Gladwell (November 17, 2009) Gladwell.com Haier's approach is to deny hereditarian racism while aligning with racists and other promoters of race pseudoscience.
====Charles Murray==== 
Haier is an admirer of Murray and not only promotes The Bell Curve but also Murray's most racist books, including Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in AmericaFacing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America by Charles Murray (2021) Encounter Books. ISBN 1641771976. in which Murray suggested that Black Americans are so genetically inclined to commit crime that they are a threat to the United States.Charles Murray’s ‘Facing Reality’—A Review by Razib Khan (July 29, 2021) Quillette (archived from August 1, 2021).
Charles Murray is so racist that he advocates race-based job discrimination. Murray is also an ally of professional racist Steve Sailer, so much that when Sailer was kicked off the pre-Musk Twitter for racist comments, Murray tweeted in protest, saying: "If @SteveSailer isn't fit for Twitter, neither am I."
Murray could not make it any clearer that he is a racist, and this either does not bother Haier, or Haier is prepared to deny Murray is a racist against all evidence. 
Haier, writing in a right-wing online magazine, sided with Charles Murray and Sam Harris against in the Harris-Klein debate.The Sam Harris debate by Ezra Klein (April 9, 2018) Vox.
Curiously, one of the three scientists who "unfairly" attacked HarrisCharles Murray is once again peddling junk science about race and IQ by Eric Turkheimer, Kathryn Paige Harden, and Richard E. Nisbett (May 18, 2017) Vox. was Kathryn Paige Harden, who has participated in at least two ISIR conferences.International Society for Intelligence Research December 17-19 2009 (retrieved January 18, 2025)International Society for Intelligence Research Annual Conference 2018 conference poster (retrieved January 18, 2025)
====Bo Winegard and Aporia====
Bo Winegard is a white nationalist who would like to see national "racial quotas."Yes, racial demographics by Bo Winegard (July 30, 2020) Twitter. At the same time, Winegard, writing for hereditarian Quillette, claimed there are no objective racial categories and so individuals can invent their own racial categories.On the Reality of Race and the Abhorrence of Racism by Bo Winegard, Ben Winegard, and Brian Boutwell (June 23, 2016) Quillette (archived from July 8, 2024). Presumably Winegard assumes he and his allies will be tasked with the job of deciding who fits into which racial categories while determining quotas. Although this is a very Nazi-like scheme, to be fair, Winegard did not reveal his final solution for handling those who cause their race category to go over-quota.
Winegard works for Aporia, a Substack that is so racist, it platformed Steve Sailer.The Art of Noticing | Steve Sailer (August 28, 2023) Aporia 
This did not stop Haier from giving an interview to Winegard on Aporia in December 2023.The IQ Wars | Richard Haier (Dec 27, 2023) Aporia. Haier and Winegard expressed their mutual enjoyment on Twitter.
In 2020 Haier spoke out against Marietta College for failing to renew its contract with Winegard, and although Haier admitted to not actually knowing all the details he joined with the rest of the right-wing mob and ranted about free speech:
==== Stefan Molyneux ====
Haier had a friendly visit on white supremacist Stefan Molyneux's podcast in March 2018.
Haier and Molyneux were in agreement about virtually everything, especially their belief that environment counts for nothing and the only way to improve intelligence test scores is genetic manipulation. Haier was very sad that the American government has not hopped on board the eugenics train yet:
But Haier and Molyneux are wrong. An October 2023 article in The New York Times finds that:
Haier is unlikely to ever be confronted by findings that are contrary to his beliefs because he will only talk to the utterly clueless such as Lex Fridman, or white nationalists and racists. Meanwhile he promotes genetic engineering over improving children's lives.
==See also==
* Hereditarianism
* Sociobiology
==External links==
* Pro-Kirkegaard site attacks Rational Wiki over Haier article - in an attack on Oliver Smith, who is trying to recover money from a legal judgement against Emil Kirkegaard, the Cancel Watch Substack complains about the old version, replaced by this version, of Rational Wiki's article on Richard Haier.
* It might be a pseudo science, but students take the threat of eugenics seriously Ben van der Merwe (February 19, 2018) The New Statesman
* Racism is creeping back into mainstream science – we have to stop it Angela Saini (January 22, 2018) The Guardian
* Bankrolling racism: “science” and the Pioneer Fund William H. Tucker (2001) Race and Society Volume 4, Issue 2
* The Heritability Fallacy David S. Moore and David Shenk (2016) WIREs Cognitive Science
* RACE SCIENCE REARS ITS UGLY HEAD Gavin Evans (March 1, 2015) New Internationalist
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