Emil O. W. Kirkegaard

Emil Ole William Kirkegaard who changed his name legally to William EngmanEmil Kirkegaard name change to William EngmanWilliam Engman on LinkedIn (online pseudonyms: Deleet,Wikipedia Wars: Inside the Fight Against Far-Right Editors, Vandals and SockpuppetsWikipedia account Deleetdk,Reddit account , CBH) is a Danish white supremacisthttps://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/05/24/white-supremacist-who-wants-legal-child-porn-doing-business-through-wyoming-llc/https://skepchick.org/2024/10/nazis-are-funding-youtubers-to-spread-pseudoscience/https://www.academia.edu/124872879/Emil_Kirkegaards_Race_Pseudoscience_and_Nazi_NetworkWhy Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for Quillette "...White supremacist non-scholar Emil Kirkegaard and publishing in his racist OpenPsych journals, which are not properly peer reviewed." and eugenicistJason Wilson (January 14, 2024). "Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists". The Guardian. Quote: "Emil OW Kirkegaard is a Danish writer with a degree in linguistics – not a biological or genetic field – and no higher degree. He is a self-described eugenicist, explicitly advocates 'race science', and is a senior fellow at the Ulster Institute for Social Research (UISR), an organization headed by Richard Lynn, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies as a white nationalist. ... According to WhoIs records, Kirkegaard was the registrant of the website for UISR’s journal Mankind Quarterly between 2017 and February 2023, after which point the WhoIs was anonymised. Mankind Quarterly, which like UISR was funded by the white nationalist Pioneer Fund, is widely held to be a cornerstone in the recent revival of scientific racism." who is the founder of the Human Diversity Foundation and publisher of the far-right Aporia Magazine.https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science-inc/ Kirkegaard is most infamous for being an activist for the legalisation of child pornography,Falkvinge 2012. legalisation of incest,https://archive.is/6QA7V and lowering of the age of consent to 13 or younger, stances taken especially while associated with Internet-oriented activism such as in the Pirate Party movement. Among his other controversial views are his belief that homosexuality is a mental illness,https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/homosexuality-is-a-mental-illness defence of polygenic embryo selection and support for human cloning.https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/embryo-selection-can-become-the-normhttps://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/yes-elon-should-clone-himself-now Kirkegaard espouses a type of climate change denial.Specifically Emil Kirkegaard is a global warming impact denier. While he recognises anthropogenic global warming - he nevertheless rejects the scientific consensus on its negative impact or severe effects. He has written, for example, "global warming [is] pretty good for Denmark" despite evidence to the contrary. 
Since 2014, Kirkegaard has attended the London Conference on Intelligence formerly held at University College London (UCL) with far-right individuals to deliver pseudoscientific lectures on controversial IQ-related subjects, including eugenics, hereditarianism, and race.UCL conference probed over white supremacist talk. Morning Star.University College London launches 'eugenics' probe after controversial conference secretly held on campus. The Independent.Exposed: London’s eugenics conference and its neo-Nazi links. London Student.University College London under fire over its conferences on ‘eugenics’. The Times.How Toby Young got where he isn’t today. The Guardian.UCL launches 'eugenics' probe after it emerges academic held controversial conference for three years on campus. The Telegraph.University to investigate secret eugenics conference on campus attended by Toby Young. International Business Times.University investigates ‘racist’ eugenics conference held on campus since 2014. The Metro.UCL to investigate eugenics conference secretly held on campus. The Guardian. 
He was a scheduled speaker at an International Society for Intelligence Research 2022 conference at University of Vienna, but was prevented from speaking after a keynote speaker at the same event complained, describing Kirkegaard as a "careless racist lunatic" and a "notorious individual".https://twitter.com/dr_appie/status/1547159135187238913https://twitter.com/dr_appie/status/1548354576138481665https://a-abdellaoui.medium.com/how-to-keep-flies-away-from-our-picknick-7867151f6e69 In 2023, Kirkegaard attended the neo-Nazi Guide to Kulchur conference in Tallin, Estonia and was a speaker the previous year at the Traditional Britain Group.Traditional Britain Group As well as owning OpenPsych (revived in 2021Recent Articles. OpenPsych.), Kirkegaard is the publisher and formerly (and may still be) the domain owner for Mankind Quarterly, a racist pseudojournal rejected by mainstream science.the.dfx@gmail.com. Website Informer. Archived.The Mankind Quarterly is considered a racist and white supremacist journal by mainstream academics. See the references on the Mankind Quarterly article, or at Wikipedia.The Hereditarian Hypothesis and Scientific Racism "The OpenPsych journals have no formal review process, are mainly reviewed by the small circle of Pioneer Fund associated researchers (Saini, 2019), and are not indexed in any bibliometric databases, but are used to disseminate work by Kirkegaard and others not fit for legitimate venues. Kirkegaard is also the current owner of the Mankind Quarterly web domain (Jedidiah Carlson, personal communications)."
==Background==
Emil Ole William Kirkegaard was born in Almind, Denmark on 10 May 1989.https://web.archive.org/web/20090316010853/http:/deleet.dk/cv/About Me: Emil Kirkegaard In 2018, he was temporarily living in the US but returned to Denmark by the end of the year. In May 2021, he left Denmark and moved to Kiel, Germany.https://archive.is/1yTJk In December 2023, he was reported in as living in Potsdam.Extrem rechtes Schlossgespenst Christian Fuchs (December 20, 2023) Zeit Online A pseudointellectual, Kirkegaard has described himself on Twitter and his personal blog as a "polymath", "scientist", "logician", "philosopher", "politician" and "psychologist"., emilkirkegaard.dkScreenshot (web.archive.org) In 2024, he began describing himself as a "social geneticist".https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/overwhelming-evidence-of-recent-evolution Kirkegaard's only qualification is a BA in Linguistics from Aarhus University which he obtained in 2015. In 2016, he enrolled as a Master's student but he never completed the degree. He most likely quit because he was investigated by the Danish Data Protection Authority over his role in the OKCupid dataset controversy and this put the university into disrepute.https://www.vice.com/en/article/danish-authorities-investigate-okcupid-data-dump/ In 2014, he co-founded OpenPsych with Davide Piffer. In May 2016, Aarhus University told Kirkegaard to stop falsely describing himself as a "scientist" on his Google Plus profile.https://twitter.com/AarhusUni/status/732938761559015424 Aarhus University published another statement on social media clarifying "Emil Kirkegaard - he is not a scientist!".https://twitter.com/AarhusUni/status/731126236743909376
 
There is scant evidence Kirkegaard has ever worked for a living. In 2016, when he was 27 he admitted to being unemployed and living off of a university grant (which had lasted the previous six years), writing: “I do it mostly for the money (the Danish state will pay you to study, and education is free)."https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071054/http:/emilkirkegaard.dk/ After the grant ended since he dropped out of his Master's degree he became a shareholder in a company Den Grønne Netbuik IVS. Public records reveal the company was owned by his father and its trading purpose was "the sale of cleaning products".https://cvrapi.dk/virksomhed/dk/den-gronne-netbutik-ivs/37931640https://ownr.dk/companies/public-profile/37931640 The company was forcibly shut down in November 2020 (‘compulsory dissolution’) by the Danish Business Authority for irregularities.https://lasso.dk/firmaer/37931640/den-grnne-netbutik-ivs/ Aside from his father making him a shareholder in his company, Kirkegaard was more or less jobless up to the age of 31. In the early 2020s, Kirkegaard was put in the will of Richard Lynn and when he died appears to have received part of his estate. Kirkegaard through Lynn was passed ownership and assets of the Pioneer Fund.https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science-inc/
Kirkegaard was a member of the Danish (Pirate Party) from 20122014 but was allegedly expelled from the party after he began associating with the neo-Nazi . After leaving this party, he set up two similar micro parties of his own: Internetpartiet (Internet Party), 2015 and Technologipartiet (Technology Party) 2016present; he describes the latter as a think tank.think-tank.
==Paedophilia and child pornography==
In 2012, Kirkegaard wrote a controversial blog post "The ban on child porn possession", which disturbingly suggested that a "compromise" for pedophiles is to have sex with children whilst they are asleep using "sleeping medicine" so they don't notice it."The ban on child porn possession, Clear Language, Clear Mind, emilkirkegaard.dkThe ban on child porn possession. In the same post, Kirkegaard made a pro-paedophilia argument that having sex with pubescent children is acceptable ("without any moral problems"):
In 2018, Kirkegaard was widely criticized in the media and by PZ Myers for this offensive blog post.Student Rights Student Rights, Tackling Extremism on Campuses "Disturbingly, the conference also featured an organiser who has argued in favour of raping children. Emil Kirkegaard, a blogger who has written about the defects of miscegenation (race-mixing) and explored the idea of a Jewish conspiracy, has claimed that “having sex with a sleeping child without them knowing it” could be a potential “compromise” for paedophiles."http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/11/university-investigates-racist-eugenics-conference-held-campus-since-2014-7221211/Shamed Toby Young attended secret eugenics conference with neo-nazis and pedophiles. RT.How Toby Young Got Where He Isn't Today. The Guardian.Support for eugenics never really went away, but this is how it's becoming mainstream again. The Independent.https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/10/ucl-to-investigate-secret-eugenics-conference-held-on-campushttp://pimediaonline.co.uk/news/moving-forward-from-galtons-ucl/UCL launches probe into eugenics conference held on campus. Oxford Student.Secret Eugenics Conference Held on Prominent U.K. University Campus For Years. Complex.Last Week In Politics. UK Blasting News.Toby Young spoke alongside Nazi who argues raping unconscious children is fine. Evolve PoliticsInstitute of Race Relations. "Emil Kirkegaard, who has written supportively of paedophiles being allowed to have ‘sex with a sleeping child." In response to the criticism,https://archive.is/sNRGh Talk:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard Kirkegaard to damage control claimed the post was a "hypothetical thought experiment" and asserted he was being attacked by "SJW critics" who quoted it out of context. He has since removed the post from his website.https://archive.is/RdyJq The problem with Kirkegaard's argument his post was a "thought experiment" is he had made other disturbing blog posts sympathising with rape. In one of these posts titled "stealth sex" in 2011 he wrote:
Kirkegaard has made more unpleasant comments about paedophilia and child pornography including admitting to viewing a "Danish child porn filter".
 Based on this comment it is apparent Kirkegaard has tried to justify viewing child pornography on the basis that those studying laws about internet censorship need to look at the illegal images. This is dubious at best. In 2009, a German Pirate Party MP was charged with possession and distribution of child pornography using the same argument for "conducting research". In 2012, he wrote comments sympathetic to legalising child pornography on Rick Falkvinge's blog. Falkvinge 2012 (comment by Emil Kirkegaard as "Emil"). Kirkegaard further published a blog post supporting the legalisation of animated child pornography.On the prohibition of animated child pornography. In 2022, he was back to posting more dirty comments and was accused of "sexualizing minors" after calling a 15 year-old school girl a "fresh fish" on Twitter.Twitter. Archived. In 2023, he wrote of "men's targeting must be primarily of fecund females" as young as "age 15".https://archive.is/2WWOa
===Kirkegaard v. Smith===
Kirkegaard filed a defamation lawsuit against Oliver D. Smith after Smith called Kirkegaard a "paedophile" and "paedophile apologist" after reading his offensive blog posts. Kirkegaard lost the preliminary hearing Kirkegaard v Smith [2019] EWHC 3393 (QB)https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2019/3393.html and discontinued the lawsuit on 22 May 2020, shortly before the summary judgement hearing.https://twitter.com/KeidanHarrison/status/1263951923629174784 Kirkegaard won no damages and is liable to pay the defendant's legal fees. Keep in mind that this was all despite the fact that is notoriously plaintiff-friendly, placing the burden of proof on the defendant. Despite filing and losing a libel suit, Kirkegaard claims on his website "sometimes I think we should just get rid of libel laws" .http://archive.is/tGcKc PZ Myers wrote a blog post on the outcome of the case.https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/13/its-evil-dont-touch-it/
It was revealed in November 2021 that Kirkegaard is in contempt of court for refusing to pay back legal costs totalling over £45,000.https://www.pinkerite.com/2021/11/perjuror-racist-emil-o-w-kirkegaard.htmlhttps://oliveratlantis.com/emil-kirkegaard Kirkegaard legally changed his name to William Engman in May 2021, named after his great-grandfather Harald Rudyard Engman.Neo-Positivist Realism: A Discussion With Emil O.W. Kirkegaard Smith contends that he changed his name and moved country to avoid paying the £45k.https://oliveratlantis.com/emil-kirkegaard
==Views==
===White/ethnic nationalism===
Kirkegaard rejects the notion that ethnic minorities born in European countries are natives and espouses white/ethnic nationalist views. 
He has summarised his support for "ethno-nationalism" (a euphemism white nationalists often use) as follows:
Kirkegaard has claimed he wants to strictly control immigration because of ethnicity:
Kirkegaard supports a total ban on refugees such as Syrians entering Denmark and favours repatriation by paying immigrants to leave:
One of his most notorious racist outbursts was telling to go "back home" to her country of origin despite the fact that she was born in London, England, and her father was born in Cornwall, England (Benita has mixed Anglo-Indian and Cornish ancestry).https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1356973682195914753
Kirkegaard is a fan of Enoch Powell's 'rivers of blood' speech:
He has promoted the neo-Nazi (self-described "fascist wave") band Xurious who made a song about Powell's controversial speech, describing their song as "excellent".
Among his other notable racist outbursts was a tweet claiming black people, even those born in England, cannot be English or have any sense of an English identity, including culture. This tweet was reported by Racism Watchdog.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1003725186422706178https://twitter.com/RacismDog/status/1003764052571639809
===Global-warming denial===
Kirkegaard has posted he thinks global warming is a good thing for Denmark:
While he recognises anthropogenic climate-change is happening — he is a denialist in the sense he ignores the negative effects of global-warming massively outweigh positives in his country. Typical of a denialist, Kirkegaard also downplays the seriousness of global-warming; he argues it isn't either a crisis nor major problem, but a "minor issue".https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1144305171146706944https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1144371690392236033
Kirkegaard says he doesn't take environmental activists who are very concerned about global warming seriously because they refuse to accept nuclear power as a solution.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1144371910194749440 This is an ad hominem fallacy.
===Anti-feminism and sexism===
Kirkegaard is a staunch anti-feminist and openly identifies as a sexist:
One of the reasons Kirkegaard opposes feminism is because he thinks women should be at home, having babies, rather than at work or in higher education:
===Pro-natalism===
Kirkegaard thinks European governments should increase birth and fertility rates,https://archive.is/ZvE8whttps://archive.is/FNvyxhttps://archive.is/tmMDX going as far as supporting pregnancies among university students:
Despite being obsessed with saving "Western civilisation"https://archive.is/pGUri by breeding more White babies, Kirkegaard has no children of his own despite being in his mid-30s. He has claimed this is because he is a "busy professional" and suggests biotechnology in the near-future is the solution to "boost fertility":
Similar to the white nationalist Anatoly Karlin, Kirkegaard also favours "anti-aging" technology:
Kirkegaard supports the pro-natalism policies of Viktor Orbán.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1127792962446950400https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1127798455097806849
===Eugenics===
Kirkegaard is a self-described eugenicist and claims that, without it, Western civilisation will be destroyed:
He has defended the concerning CRISP gene-editing of embryos.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1156220522520350721https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/758309392185978880https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/746080645521211392
Kirkegaard also supports IVF and thinks governments should fund assisted reproductive technology:
He claims he only supports voluntary or incentive-based eugenics, not coercive.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/909791126269431809 However, this is contradicted by his support of CRISP gene-editing; embryos cannot consent and there's the same risk with CRISP of gene therapy when applied to newborn babies,https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S152500161630795Xhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8930794 i.e. "inadvertently damaging alterations could thus be seen as harming the genomes of the others without their consent."https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/can-we-cure-genetic-diseases-without-slipping-into-eugenics/
Furthermore, Kirkegaard has distastefully made a sympathetic tweet to sterilising the mentally ill:
===Drugs===
Kirkegaard describes himself as a "major proponent of drug legalization",THC and driving: Causal modeling and statistical controls arguing even "cocain should be sold".Pirate Times: Pirate Policies on Drugs.
===Age of consent===
Kirkegaard supports lowering age of consent. In 2012, he wrote he thinks age of consent is a "fiction" that should be lowered to 13 years old or lower if puberty begins first. Considering puberty begins on average as young as 11 in females, his comment is interpretable as wanting to lower the age of consent as young as that age:
In 2013, Kirkegaard also wrote on a forum "It is a stupid idea to have rigid age of consent / sexual-minimum age laws."https://web.archive.org/web/20130907111353/http://www.piratpartiet.dk/node/795
===Anti-immigration===
Kirkegaard is a capitalist and views immigration mainly in terms of net-economics such as fiscal contribution he links to intelligence.https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=8034https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=8485https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=8046
He therefore opposes who he considers "low skilled" and "low-IQ" immigrants as well as refugees into Western countries, namely Denmark and Sweden:
Kirkegaard has argued with people who share similar anti-immigration views but for different reasons:
In other words, Kirkegaard doesn't much care about the values and beliefs of immigrants but their net-fiscal contribution and IQ. He is particularly hostile to Muslim immigrants; aside from denigrating them by calling them "low-intelligence" and "terrible", he equates Muslim immigrants in Sweden with "self-destruction" and claims they're much more crime-prone:
Kirkegaard purports to produce scientific data showing Muslim immigrants are low net-fiscal contributors and more crime-prone. However these studies have been criticised for serious methodological flaws and confirmation bias; Noah Carl, Kirkegaard's colleague was sacked from his job at Cambridge University for publishing anti-Muslim papers in the academically dodgy OpenPsych journals that Kirkegaard publishes. Kirkegaard has had his manuscripts rejected for peer-review when submitted to mainstream journals.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1250722842364297216
===Ableism===
Kirkegaard intensely dislikes people with mental health issues, developmental disorders, and disabilities despite the fact that he is supposedly autistic himself. Some of his friends including Bo Winegard have said they think he is on the autistic spectrumBo Winegard (May 11, 2019). "I’ve not seen or heard him advocate that since—and it’s not clear how serious that post was. My suspicion is that he’s on the spectrum and is unaware how people will greet his words." Twitter, via archive.today. while Kirkegaard says he has "natural autism", and wears an "autism is my super power" t-shirt.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1150945748441280512 His ableism therefore could stem from psychological projection and/or internalized discrimination.
Nevertheless, on his social media Kirkegaard regularly posts ableist language such as calling people "retards":
It is often the case that individuals Kirkegaard attacks as being mentally ill for merely holding different views contrary to his don't have any mental-health issues:
He has also falsely accused an individual of having mental-illnesses they don't have on his website.https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/15681005
Furthermore, Kirkegaard labels academic fields he disagrees with (e.g. ) as being for mentally ill people:
Kirkegaard argues transgender individuals are mentally ill,https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1071898321474764800 however this claim is incorrect.https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/5/13/17938120/transgender-people-mental-illness-health-carehttps://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/28/health/who-transgender-reclassified-not-mental-disorder/index.html
He argues against individuals who have mental illness from having children:
In February 2020, Kirkegaard published a pre-print of a paper arguing mental illness is significantly more common among individuals with left-wing views than conservatives.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339541044_Mental_illness_and_the_left The paper was later published in Mankind Quarterly, not a reputable, peer-reviewed journal. Kirkegaard's confirmation bias results in him ignoring data showing a wide-range of mental disorders, narcissistic personality disorder, Machiavellianism and psychopathy — the of personality traits — have highest prevalence among individuals with right-wing, especially anti-immigration, political views.The impact of dark tetrad traits on political orientation and extremism: an analysis in the course of a presidential election by Boris Duspara & Tobias Greitemeyer (2017) Heliyon 3(10):e00425. doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00425.Hodson G., Hogg S.M., MacInnis C.C. "The role of dark personalities (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy), the Big Five personality factors, and ideology in explaining prejudice". J. Res. Pers. 2009;43:686–690Arvan M. "Bad news for conservatives? Moral judgments and the Dark Triad personality traits: A correlational study". Neuroethics. 2013;6:307–318.(Im)moral aspects of attitudes towards immigrants: The role of the Dark Tetrad and Moral Foundations by Boban Petrović (2019) Psihološka istraživanja 22:115-134. Kirkegaard's paper has ended up referenced and promoted on far-right and conservative blogs including VDARE.https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/04/does-liberalism-cause-mental-illness.phphttps://nationalpolicy.institute/2020/03/26/the-return-of-heresy/ 
Kirkegaard now references his own paper having "proved" white liberals are crazy:
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Aside from liberals, Kirkegaard has described SJWs, Antifa, Marxists, feminists and pretty much anyone left-of-center in politics as insane.
Kirkegaard claims to block insane people on social media:
Hilariously someone then asked why he associates himself with unhinged people such as Davide Piffer who claims to have psychic powers:
Kirkegaard is therefore rather selective who he blocks as insane. He has further defended Piffer's batshit crazy Uri Geller-type beliefs.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1194465264601116673
In May 2020 Kirkegaard began describing vegans and vegetarians as mentally ill:
While a meta-analysis of studieshttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2020.1741505 has shown vegans have a much higher risk of depression and anxiety than meat-eaters, Kirkegaard ignores the vegetarian-depression link is possibly the result of vegans simply "being aware of the cruelties of the world and this is more depressing than living in a state of ignorant bliss."https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/animals-and-us/201812/the-baffling-connection-between-vegetarianism-and-depression Instead, Kirkegaard argues:
===Transphobia===
Kirkegaard is a transphobe and has described transgender individuals as "bad", "mentally ill" and "insane":
===Homophobia===
Kirkegaard wants to end homosexuality in the future through eugenics by selecting for heterosexual children:
Studies have indeed shown there is a higher risk of mental disorders (such as depression) among homosexuals than heterosexuals,https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-244X-8-70 but Kirkegaard ignores data that suggests this is because of institutionalised prejudice and social exclusion (even within families). Instead, he doubtfully claims the higher risk of mental illnesses is because of genetics:
In a 2017 blog post, Kirkegaard said he supported gay rights but then attempted to link homosexuality with pedophilia by misinterpreting the research of sexologist Ray Blanchard.https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=7001 In 2020, he expressed surprise that homosexuality was not related to pedophilia "after all".https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1280507778361163776 Kirkegaard appears oblivious to the fact that Blanchard had already clarified (in 2011) that his research showed that gay men were not more likely to be pedophiles than straight men.Do Gay Men Have More Sexual Interest in Children?Probably because pedophilia and homosexuality aren't the same orientation?
In January 2023, Kirkegaard authored a pseudoscientific article claiming homosexuality is a mental illness and promoted his article on Twitter.
===Islamophobia===
Kirkegaard is a staunch Islamophobe; he has described "Muslims as terrible immigrants to get",https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1027221710037241856 and his tweets do not draw a distinction between ordinary law-abiding Muslim citizens and Muslim extremists. For example, he has described Allah as a "fire god" because of an arson incident:
He has described the entire Islamic religion and Muhammad as paedophiles:
He uses the Islamophobic #swedistan hashtag on Twitter.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1033899731397705730
===Racism and xenophobia===
Kirkegaard identifies as a "moderate racist:"
However, he has posted crude racism about black people; for example, in his opinion their neighbourhoods are bad to live in:
He has criticised the academic for denouncing racism.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1086141266826539008
Kirkegaard sometimes equates racism with being non-politically correct:
And thinks the word "racism" is more or less redundant because of political correctness:
He thinks white women are discriminated against:
Kirkegaard has praised Einstein not for his scientific accomplishments, but his alleged xenophobichttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/12/einsteins-travel-diaries-reveal-shocking-xenophobia views:
Kirkegaard has been accused of antisemitism:
Although he denies this.https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=7267 Nevertheless, he has made a bunch of controversial tweets critical of "Hollywood Jews":
Kirkegaard has claimed anyone who doubts his racist views concerning race and intelligence must have "destructive immigration policies":
==Relation to the alt-right==
The vast majority of Kirkegaard's political views overlap with the alt-right and white nationalism, but he rejects these labels for alt-center.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/978087973777563648
In reality, posters on the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront see Kirkegaard as a white nationalisthttp://archive.is/WhfIs and promote his writings on race.http://archive.is/LXoNA
Kirkegaard uses white nationalism slogans on his social media:
He also denies being far-right which he blatantly is:
Despite claiming to be heterodox, most of Kirkegaard's views are standard alt-right and he uses their terminology and memes — so he's actually boring and unoriginal:
Kirkegaard has defended the alt-right Unite the Right rally and claims they somehow weren't far-right extremists:
On his blog he lists his political views.http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?page_id=5697 (screenshot version) Many of them are conservative such as strong border controls, opposing foreign aid and anti-affirmative action:
*Immigration
*Affirmative action
*Foreign aid
That said, he does hold some progressive views, although his right-wing positions largely outweigh the former.
Kirkegaard is a member of the right-wing Technologipartiet whose website claims it opposes multiculturalism, opposes gender equality laws and wants to decommission the Ministry of Gender Equality in Denmark.http://teknologipartiet.dk The Technologipartiet promotes nuclear power, "including experiments with thorium-based versions and fusion when the time comes" and wants to avoid "wasting money on expensive renewable energy". One of its strangest policies is providing state aid for embryo selection or "eugenics biotechnology".
Kirkegaard supports a number of right-wing populist to far-right parties, including the Sweden Democrats.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1004951327179444224
He has been described as a "figure on the radical right fringe".Eugenics: White Nationalists Continue To Turn To The False Theory Of Genetic Supremacy.
Kirkegaard claims with flimsy evidence that right-wing people are more moral:
===Alt-right===
Further evidence he is alt-right, include:
*His usage of alt-right glossary terms in his tweets, e.g. Cuck,Twitter. 26 Mar 2018.Twitter: "The cuck map."https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1008956462717169664 Kek,https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/978751598821302272 Red PillTwitter. 30 March 2018. and Based.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1006764552204242947
*His support for HBD/race realism.It has been noted that on Twitter: "In Emil OW Kirkegaard's self-description: 'hbd' = human biodiversity (euphemism for scientific racism) and his header has photos of Arthur Jensen and Galton".http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=6643
*His support for Donald Trump.https://archive.fo/JfSGf
*His anti-feminism.
*Calls anyone who disagrees with him an SJW.
*His support of "biotech eugenics (embryo selection, gene editing etc.)".Reddit (comment) While he claims his support for eugenics "has nothing to do with any racial matters" this is contradicted by comments he has made elsewhere e.g. " is real. Eugenics or Western civilization dies. Choose wisely" (see here)
*Shares alt-right memes on his social media profiles.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1030043193360961537See this example (screenshot).
*Being obsessed with having white babies,"How to bring about more babies". writing "Western governments should be experimenting with ways to boost fertility".https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1059647964187103232
*He has described a promotional video of the alt-right as "nicely done".Screenshot 1 and 2.
*He believes in the "anti-racist is a code word for anti-white" mantra invented by white nationalists.http://archive.is/AGTsF
*He wrote an essay "Is miscegenation bad for your kids", that argues "behavioral/mental problems of multirace persons".Is Miscegenation bad for your kidsAccording to VDARE: 
*Has appeared on white supremacist Tara McCarthy's YouTube channel for a discussion about eugenics., YouTube.
*He claims black people cannot be culturally English and sparked a race debate reported by Racism Watchdog.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1003725186422706178https://twitter.com/RacismDog/status/1003764052571639809
*He's anti-LGBT, for example calling transgender people "mentally ill".https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1027221710037241856
*He's a fan of Counter-Currents, a neo-Nazi book publisher owned by Greg Johnson.http://archive.is/DM6GF
*He seems to have defended the alt-right Unite the Right.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1051248686745903104
*In October 2018, Kirkegaard changed his Twitter profile picture to the NPC meme used by the alt-right and white nationalists.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1052339403983638531https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1052320425064243200
*Kierkegaard described sexual preference for butts as "Africanized sexual culture"https://twitter.com/sable_sonya/status/1208588466310852608
Kirkegaard is listed as a member of the "All Right Social Network", that also includes white supremacists such as Richard Spencer, Brittany Pettibone, Patrick Little and Angelo John Gage.All Right Social Network
==Controversies==
===Nazi sympathies===
In 2013, there was a campaign by Danish Projekt Antifa to expel Kirkegaard from the (Pirate Party) after they discovered he had ranted about "low IQ immigrants" on the Piratpartiet internet forum. Furthermore, on his Facebook profile, Kirkegaard posted a photo of himself next to someone performing a Nazi-salute, while smiling, and writing an insensitive comment about being the Führer. Antifa also found evidence that Kirkegaard had tried to defend the cooperation of the Piratpartiet with the neo-Nazi , founded by Daniel Carlsen; an article appeared on the Project Antifa website describing Kirkegaard as a "Nazi Sympathiser" and attempted to expel him from the Piratpartiet:
In response to the Projekt Antifa article, Kirkegaard has claimed the photo of the Nazi salute was a joke.
In April 2019, Kirkegaard published a blog article on his website "On Nazism and Jews" claiming he is an anti-authoritarian and "not very supportive of Nazism, and fairly pro-Jewish as far as HBDers go."http://archive.is/QyetA However, his claim to be an anti-authoritarian is contradicted by his opposition to civil liberties of immigrants, especially if they're Muslim, while his claim of not supporting Nazism or fascism is contradicted by his support for far-right political groups, including the fascist . While the All Polish Youth attempt to cosmetically distance themselves from Nazism by anti-swastika banners, the group is antisemitic and ultra-nationalist.
Kirkegaard also claims, he has "often been critical of Hitler and Nazis publicly". However, these anti-Nazi comments that have all suddenly appeared were only made in response to this RationalWiki article that was made in 2016 and don't predate this page.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/901351817002528769/photo/1 Like almost everything Kirkegaard says, his claims are bullshit.
===Incest===
In 2008, Kirkegaard wrote a blog post entitled "Why is incest prohibited?", arguing that incest should be legalised.Why is incest prohibited?. Google Translate. (translated from Danish):
In November 2009,https://emilkirkegaard.dk/da/?p=1872 Kirkegaard mentioned again his defence of incest:
In 2016, Kirkegaard posted on Twitter that incest "for non-reproduction" should be included as an example of "utilitarians getting things right before society as a whole."https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/743217720586534913
===OkCupid doxxing===
In 2016, Kirkegaard published the data of nearly 70,000 OkCupid users, as a study in one of his own pseudojournals.OkCupid dataset.Researchers Caused an Uproar By Publishing Data from 70000 OkCupid users. Fortune.ttps://www.newstatesman.com/politics/education/2018/12/no-objecting-cambridge-s-appointment-eugenicist-not-about-free-speech
Kirkegaard claims he was publishing already public information, but this is disputed by others who argue the information was "semi-private":
The data release was considered by Vox to be "without a doubt one of the most grossly unprofessional, unethical and reprehensible data releases".https://www.vox.com/2016/5/12/11666116/70000-okcupid-users-data-release 
===$200 bounty===
In response to the firing of Bo Winegard from his job, Kirkegaard posted he would pay a $200 "bounty" to anyone who can identify a pseudonymous Twitter user called AfroSapiens (an anti-racist activist) who allegedly sent emails to Winegard's university informing them about his racist tweets.Bo Winegard firing — time for action. Emil Kirkegaard. Kirkegaard claims legal action should be taken against this person.
===ISIR 2022 conference controversy===
On 13 July 2022, geneticist Abdel Abdellaoui a scheduled keynote speaker at the ISIR conference (to be held at the University of Vienna) cancelled attending after complaining about Emil Kirkegaard being allowed to attend as a speaker. Abdellaoui described Kirkegaard as a "careless racist lunatic" and noted he lacks academic credentials.https://twitter.com/dr_appie/status/1547159135187238913 In response to Abdellaoui's complaint, there was an online petition to prevent Kirkegaard from attending the conference. On 16 July 2022, Abdellaoui confirmed Kirkegaard was removed on the speaking list and therefore said he would now himself attend the conference.https://twitter.com/dr_appie/status/1548354576138481665
In a blog post, Abdellaoui further explained:
Abdellaoui's decision to cancel his talk because of Kirkegaard was supported by Richard Haier.https://twitter.com/rjhaier/status/1551962322654019584
According to Noah Carl, "an individual sympathetic to Kirkegaard booked a room at a nearby hotel, where Kirkegaard was able to give his talk to a group of around twenty people including some senior academics and members of ISIR."https://noahcarl.substack.com/p/the-isir-vienna-affair Carl's article on the "ISIR Vienna affair" is highly biased. Carl is a close friend of Kirkegaard who is associated with his OpenPsych pseudojournals.
==== ISIR 2024 conference - the return of Kirkegaard ====
On July 31, 2024 the Twitter/X account RiotIQ, which is associated with Russell T. WarneRiot IQ - Team Retrieved August 1, 2024, tweeted: "Last presentation before lunch is @KirkegaardEmil, with the topic of inputing IQ data into existing data using the MMPI."RiotIQ webpage capture retrieved August 1, 2024 The tweet include an image of Kirkegaard standing before a projected slide that reads "Imputing intelligence data into existing datasets using the MMPI" and underneath: "Emil Kirkegaard Arthur Jensen Institute." The tweet was soon deletedRiotIQ deleted tweet but a screen cap was made and the tweet was archived.
So far no explanation for Kirkegaard's appearance has been given by ISIR. There is no online evidence for the existence of the "Arthur Jensen Institute."
===Public Square Magazine controversy 2023===
On March 6 2023, Public Square Magazine which describes itself as the "most read non-official Latter-day Saint periodical" published an article sympathetic to a paper co-authored by Emil Kirkegaard and Edward Dutton in 2022 which argued "Latter-day Saints in the USA show slightly positive selection for intelligence, whereas all other religious groups examined did not robustly differ from the average."https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-022-00327-y Three weeks later the article was retracted and deleted with the following added note by the editor:
Complaints were sent to the magazine editor about not only Kirkegaard's white supremacist beliefs but controversial writings on pedophilia and legalising child pornography.https://twitter.com/mormonByAssoc/status/1638764748648116226https://twitter.com/Spector37214958/status/1639063551766609922
==Pseudoscience==
===Race and intelligence===
Kirkegaard identifies as a proponent of HBD,What exactly is Human Biodiversity? – Personal view i.e. racialism and has described himself as a "race realist",https://archive.is/pIlIu a term coined by that is adopted by white nationalists like David Duke. His website contains posts on race and eugenics.https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=7257https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?s=eugenicshttps://archive.is/i1TBS Biological races; differences between groups/populations: reading material] Against the scientific consensus that race is not an accurate way to describe or analyse human biological variation, Kirkegaard erroneously argues human races are valid biological constructs (as "genetic clusters") and makes PRATTs such as quoting Lewontin's Fallacy:
Kirkegaard doesn't just argue for human races but maintains there is a racial hierarchy with different "tiers" of races based on average intelligence. For example, he considers Indians to be a "lower tier".https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1009168542820904962 He argues mean group differences in intelligence are mostly the result of genetic factors. For example, writing "The hereditarian hypothesis is almost certainly true.https://archive.is/qkwGJ In fact, he has gone as far as arguing "100% genetic for the USA black white gap".https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/990450658334650368 Nonsurprisingly, no peer-reviewed science journals would publish this pseudoscience and so Kirkegaard was left submitting a paper to the Mankind Quarterly.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/990621727817437184 On his website, Kirkegaard recommends outdated racialist literature such as John Baker's Race (1974) and in 2015 positively reviewed the far-right Metapedia article on race and intelligence.Review: Race (John Baker).Review of Metapedia’s Race and Intelligence He alleges a left-wing bias in academia that downplays heritability of race and IQ., Clear Language Clear Mind
Kirkegaard is permanently blocked from editing Wikipedia,https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3ADeleet having misused the wiki to spread his racist nonsense. He has since whined about Wikipedia deleting his pseudoscientific writings on race.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1112222351050113024
===London Conference on Intelligence===
===Ulster Institute for Social Research===
On Facebook,Emil Kirkegaard. Facebook (screenshot). Kirkegaard says he is a research fellow at the Ulster Institute for Social Research. This institute founded by Richard Lynn has received grants from the far-right and publishes the racist pseudoscience journal Mankind Quarterly, described as white supremacist by SPLC.According to an article published by :
"Between 2002 and 2006, the UISR was bankrolled by the ‘extremist’ Pioneer Fund to the tune of $286,372. And in response to a query by The Canary, Lynn confirmed that the UISR was financed in this way. Lynn, who has been the president of the Pioneer Fund since 2012, told The Canary he could not provide precise figures. But we can. Indeed, the fund’s support of the UISR began as far back as 1971, with grants totalling $609,000 up to 1996. According to the SPLC: "the Pioneer Fund’s original mandate was to pursue ‘race betterment’ by promoting the genetic stock of those ‘deemed to be descended predominantly from white persons’. It’s also claimed that the Pioneer Fund supported several well known white supremacists. These include David Duke (former Grand Wizard, Ku Klux Klan); Richard Spencer (agitator at the Charlottesville action that saw the tragic death of a civil rights protester); and Nick Griffin (former head of the British National Party)."
===Arthur Robert Jensen memorial site===
Kirkegaard is the owner of the Arthur Robert Jensen memorial site dedicated to the white nationalist Arthur Jensen.http://arthurjensen.net/ Kirkegaard tries to portray Jensen as an "objective scientist" who fought against political bias and censorship when in reality Jensen was politically biased and far-right (for example, sitting on the editorial board of a neo-Nazi journal and was interviewed by Jared Taylor in 1992). Jensen remains most infamous for his controversial writings on race and intelligence, and Kirkegaard has described him as his main influence.
===OpenPsych===
Despite Kirkegaard's insistence otherwise,, /r/SlateStarCodexCriticism of me and my research on SlateStarCodex’s subredditInaccuracies in Rationalwiki’s page about me OpenPsych and its journals are pseudojournals: they do not use traditional peer review and are filled with Kirkegaard's publications. For example, OpenPsych show typical signs of a pseudojournal: a high percentage of content written by one of the journal's creator, Kirkegaard himself.
As of 13 January 2018:
*Kirkegaard wrote for 18 out of the 32 papers in Open Differential Psychology, Open Psych
*Kirkegaard wrote for 1 out of the 7 papers in Open Behavioral Genetics, Open Psych
*Kirkegaard wrote for 8 out of the 11 papers in Open Quantitative Sociology & Political Science, Open Psych
Kirkegaard was an author for 27 of 50 total papers, or 54%.
According to Kirkegaard, his journals do have peer review:
However, this is an argument by assertion. The aforementioned process falls under the umbrella of 
===Mankind Quarterly===
Kirkegaard is the domain owner and webmaster of the controversial racist journal Mankind Quarterly. In recent years, the journal has tried to repackage itself as doing "normal science" on race.About (Obviously written by Kirkegaard). But this is bullshit and nobody is fooled because the journal continues to publish racist woo from Edward Dutton (its past editor), John Fuerst, Richard Lynn and Gerhard Meisenberg. You can find important reports from Kirkegaard and his co-authors in this journal such as one 2023 paper that reveals, using data (hearsay) from a small Internet survey of Americans claiming to be sex workers, that black men have larger penises and white men prefer kinkier sex. This is apparently what we get when his interest in racialism meets his interest in pornography.
===Self-citation===
Kirkegaard has been criticized for inflating his h-index and other citation metrics by heavily citing his own papers. For example, as of February 2019, all 38 citations to his most cited paper were self-citations (i.e. papers authored or co-authored by Kirkegaard himself)."It takes a very special kind of person to show off their paper with 38 citations while knowing that every single one of those was a self-citation.", Nicolas Bray, Twitter, January 5, 2019 Of the 404 Google Scholar citations (as of February 12, 2019) to his papers, 316 of them (78%!) were self-citations. Many of the exceptions are citations to the OkCupid paper he co-authored in 2016, and the citations are typically talking about controversial issues in data science (using the privacy-violating paper as an example).Emil Kirkegaard's self-citations
===Doing business in Wyoming===
On May 24, 2024, the Wyoming-based Cowboy State Daily ran an article about Kirkegaard entitled "White Supremacist Who Wants Legal Child Porn Doing Business Through Wyoming." The article begins: "A globally recognized Danish white supremacist is doing business in Wyoming, or at least through the Cowboy State as a registered LLC here. Emil Kirkegaard has been accused by many of using scientific racism as a base for his open-access research journal website where he’s published numerous articles supporting a basis for biological differences between races, ethnicities and immigrant groups on measures such as crime and IQ." 
According to the article, "Wyoming has some of the most private business filing laws in the country and the cheapest rates to file, which allows people to easily cloak their identities when filing with the state."White Supremacist Who Wants Legal Child Porn Doing Business Through Wyoming Leo Wolfson (May 24, 2024) Cowboy State Daily retrieved May 31, 2024
==Human Diversity Foundation==
In October 2024, the Guardian ran an article about the (HDF), focusing on the $1.3 million donation received from Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss (October 16, 2024) David Pegg, Tom Burgis, Hannah Devlin and Jason Wilson The Guardian 
The article relied heavily on a report by the organization called Race Science Inc. Undercover in The Human Diversity Foundation, the million-dollar race science company.Race Science Inc. Undercover in The Human Diversity Foundation, the million-dollar race science company (October 16, 2024) Harry Shukman & Patrik Hermansson Hope not Hate 
The report presents findings from an individual who infiltrated racist and neo-Nazi organizations to investigate the world of race pseudoscience. Emil Kirkegaard was found to be a key player in that world, especially through his ownership of the Human Diversity Foundation. HDF has a research and a media branch according to its organization chart, presented at a meeting that the HOPE not Hate infiltrator attended. Aporia Magazine is part of HDF's media branch. In addition to the money from Conru, HDF has received the remaining assets of the Pioneer Fund thanks to Kirkegaard's connection to Richard Lynn. Human Diversity Foundation is essentially a rebranding of the Pioneer Fund.
In addition to Conru, Human Diversity Foundation has connections to at least two other right-wing plutocrats, Peter Thiel and .
Thiel:
Kirkegaard appears to be unfazed by Thiel's homosexuality, although Thiel is proud to be homosexual'I Am Proud To Be Gay,' Tech Investor Peter Thiel Tells GOP Convention (July 21, 2016) Alina Selyukh NPR and Kirkegaard believes that "Homosexuality is a mental illness".https://archive.is/SkhxB
Andreessen:
===HDF Neo-Nazi Connections===
There are three key figures of the HDF, Kirkegaard, Matthew Frost (aka "Matthew Archer") and Erik Ahrens and two of them, Kirkegaard and Ahrens have connections to Alternative for Germany, also known as Alternative für Deutschland, AfD. Kirkegaard is known to have stayed at Das Landaus Adlon, owned by an AfD ally (see "Kirkegaard v. Smith" above.) and Ahrens is
Ahrens sees himself as the next Adolf Hitler:
==Stopped-clock==
While Kirkegaard supports racialist pseudoscience, he nevertheless is against most other pseudosciences, including creationism and climate change denial, writing: "I spent several years debating creationists online (and religious people in general), and now a days occasionally debate climate science deniers"User:EmilOWK (in actual fact, Kirkegaard is a global-warming denialist see above). He has done some decent research on how atheism correlates with intelligence and education.Atheism
Kirkegaard is also to be thanked for uploading Martin Gardner's book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science online in its entiretyFads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. PDF. (though, ironically, among the things Gardner criticized were racist claims of his time).
==Wikipedia==
Kirkegaard is suspected of having created his own Wikipedia article on a sockpuppet or getting someone he knows to have created it (the article was created by a user named BerlinburgerTorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/BerlinburgerTor who suspiciously has with no edits on separate articles). The whitewashed biographical page was deleted and removed to draft-form in February 2021.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Emil_Kirkegaard
==See also==
==External links==
*EmilOWK
*His website
:*His blog
:*Account on Twitter
:*Account on GitHub
*OpenPsych
:*Open Differential Psychology
:*Open Behavioral Genetics
:*Open Quantitative Sociology & Political Science
==Notes==
==References==
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