Jonatan Pallesen

Jonatan Pallesen is a Danish far-right anti-immigration activist, conspiracy theorist and AfD supporter who spends most of his time on X.com posting climate change denial and xenophobic material.Pallesen openly admits to being far-right, commenting "European 'far right' at this point just means preserving Europe for Europeans. How can you be against that?" Archived.The reason you should vote for AfD is the same reason you should vote for Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, the Sweden Democrats, etc. X.com. Archived.See references in section Jonatan_Pallesen#Climate_change_misinformation He describes his philosophy as "less mass immigration, more births".Elon Musk Is the One Bond Villain None of Us Asked For. bylinetimes.com. Pallesen promotes an expensive "high welfare" meat-based diet and spreads misinformation about climate change and livestock farming including his claim that all animals "live great lives" on organic farms and falsely stating cows have "no meaningful impact on climate change."https://ghostarchive.org/archive/4QFw2https://archive.is/RDzGF
Pallesen is a proponent of hereditarianism and promotes discredited race realism having co-authored controversial papers with eugenicists and white supremacists including Emil Kirkegaard and Michael Woodley.Scientist Cited in Claudine Gay's Ouster Wrote a Paper Supporting Eugenics. thedailybeast.Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists. theguardian.com.White Supremacist Who Wants Legal Child Porn Doing Business Through Wyoming LLC. cowboystatedaily.com. Archived. Pallesen has described "non-Western" immigration as "morally indefensible".https://archive.ph/9OilX He opposes multiculturalism and argues "non-Western" immigrants commit more rape and violence and also argues for European countries to heavily restrict non-European immigrants. He is obsessed with increasing European fertility rates.https://archive.is/m4DO8 
In 2024, Pallesen became a writer for the far-right Aporia Magazine, authoring an article supporting the discredited .Origins of AIDS: The polio vaccine hypothesis. aporiamagazine.com.
Pallesen spreads inaccurate claims about ethnicity/race and crime. He is on record as falsely claiming "native Germans" and "native northern Europeans" have never committed gang rape and only criticizes gang rapists if they are non-European immigrants including Afghans and Somalis.https://archive.is/lebJ1https://archive.is/TcOeVhttps://archive.is/F5pXThttps://archive.is/0B9Ej Pallesen has argued that it is an "indisputable fact" that black people have lower IQs than white people.[https://archive.is/39rq2 From the new 
[@Steve_Sailer hit piece in The Atlantic: "He has claimed that Black people tend to have lower IQs than white people" This is not a "claim". It is an indisputable fact. Implying an accusation for stating this fact is either stunning ignorance or stunning dishonesty.] by Jonatan Pallesen (9:12 AM · Aug 21, 2024) Twitter (archived from 13 Nov 2024 02:55:59 UTC).
In November 2024, Palleson promoted a conspiracy that he was being targeted because of his "stance against the current European mass immigration regime".https://archive.is/WnXEn More recently Pallesen is using his X.com account to spread racist misinformation that all Pakistani's are "child rapists" and that the UK Government and Guardian newspaper are involved in a "cover up".See references in section Jonatan_Pallesen#Pakistani_gang_rapes.
==Background==
Pallesen obtained a PhD in genomics from Aarhus University in 2015. He works as a data scientist for Dansk Industri.Jonatan Pallesen. danskindustri.dk.
==Race realism pseudoscience==
In 2019, Pallesen authored a paper in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences with HBD figures Curtis S. Dunkel, Michael A. Woodley of Menie and Emil Kirkegaard.Dunkel CS, Woodley of Menie MA, Pallesen J, & Kirkegaard EOW (2019). Polygenic scores mediate the Jewish phenotypic advantage in educational attainment and cognitive ability compared with Catholics and Lutherans. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 13(4), 366–375. 10.1037/ebs0000158 The paper cites the work of Kevin MacDonald, a retired psychologist known for pushing antisemitism.
Aaron Panofsky in "How White nationalists mobilize genetics" noted how Pallesen's paper is unreliable:
After receiving criticism for co-authoring the paper, Pallesen replied, "I agree with the criticism that the paper is flawed in its methods and conclusions. I have written to the journal and asked if they can withdraw my name from the paper." 
In 2021, Pallesen co-authored a paper with Emil Kirkegaard and Noah Carl titled "The Left-liberal Skew of Western Media".Kirkegaard, E. O. W., Pallesen, J., Elgaard, E., & Carl, N. (2021). The left-liberal skew of Western media. Journal of Psychological Research 3 (3): 26-43. Kirkegaard has even made a video about their paper.The Left-Liberal Skew of Western Media. youtube.com. The paper was promoted by the white nationalist website VDARE.It's Official: Leftist Journalists Are An International Disease. vdare.com. It was not taken seriously by academia.
Palleson is supportive of Emil Kirkegaard's racist pseudojournal OpenPsych. In an editorial put out by OpenPsych responding to criticisms of the journal he is thanked "for comments that improved the manuscript"."Editorial: A Response to Criticisms of the OpenPsych Journals". openpsych.net.
==Christopher F. Rufo interview==
In January 2024, Pallesen was interviewed by far-right Christopher Rufo on "Claudine Gay’s Data Problem" for the Manhattan Institute's City Journal."Claudine Gay’s Data Problem" by Christopher F. Rufo (January 4, 2024) City Journal. Pallesen accused of committing supposed data errors in her Ph.D. thesis. Pallesen also whined that in academia, "woke claims tend to find easier acceptance", whereas "non-woke white male researchers, such as Bo Winegard, do meticulous research and are fired."
==Far-right podcast speaker==
In 2023, Pallesen was a speaker on the far-right Aporia Magazine podcast with Bo Winegard.Eleusis: Bo Winegard & Jonatan Pallesen reveal the literal meaning of life. aporiamagazine.com. In March 2024, Pallesen was a speaker on white nationalist Edward Dutton's podcast.AI: Can it reverse the decline? | Jonatan Pallesen. jollyheretic.com.
==Far-right views and fringe beliefs==
===Support for AfD===
Pallesen supports the far-right AfD party:
===Defence of the far-right===
Pallesen has defended the label "far-right":
He appears to support the Great Replacement conspiracy theory:
===Anti-Black racism===
Responding to the racist account Eyeslasho on X, Pallesen remarked: 
Pallesen spends his time cherry-picking and distorting crime statistics to make racist claims Black people are the most criminal and/or violent:
==="Non-Western" immigration===
Pallesen opposes "non-Western" (a euphemism for non-White) immigration into Europe and bizarrely equates being pro-"non-Western" immigration with misogyny:
He is notorious for writing incendiary and offensive tweets about "non-Western" immigrants, as well as spreading misinformation about crime statistics:
He particularly dislikes Muslim immigrants:
Pallesen oddly believes illegal immigrants share his hate-filled anti-immigration rhetoric:
Despite opposing non-"Western" immigration, Pallesen has no problem with immigrants if they are "Western" (a euphemism for White) which pretty much sums up his racism:
A common theme on Pallesen's X.com account is to claim that all Muslim men are rapists.
====Refugees and ECHR====
Pallesen wants to ban refugees entering Europe and wants "all European countries" to leave the and European Convention on Human Rights.https://archive.is/VwW6N
====Gang rapes====
He has made some absurd tweets denying "native Germans" and "native northern Europeans" can be gang rapists and instead only criticises non-European immigrant gang rapists:
====Pakistani gang rapes====
 
Since December 2024, Palleson has used his X.com account to promote racist misinformation about Pakistani gang rapes. He claims that nearly all gang rapists in the UK are Pakistani, and that all Pakistani's are "inbreds".
He also alleges a conspiracy theory that the UK Government, news media (including The Guardian) and Wikipedia support Pakistani rape gangs and have "lied" about the perpetrators:
Pallesen also spends his time writing disturbing thought experiments; claiming all Pakistani's are child rapists:
Despite posting this extreme material; Palleson claims that Google and RationalWiki have destroyed his genomics "career" for speaking out against immigration.https://archive.is/yLX4lhttps://archive.is/raBU8 It is more likely that his offensive comments have destroyed his career. About 90% of his X.com feed consists of posting hateful comments against Islam, Pakistani men and accusing them all of child rape. This is hardly what a respectable employer would want to see.
===Anti-vaccination===
Pallesen claims to be "pro-vaccines" but like all anti-vaxxers spends his time attacking vaccinations on social media. One of his bizarre claims is that COVID-19 vaccines are a "mistake" and nobody knows their long-term effects.https://archive.is/VsQhr He admits his views are not accepted by the medical community.
===Pro-natalism===
Pallesen supports increasing European fertility rates while decreasing African fertility rates, a standard view among white nationalists:
He identifies as a pro-natalist:
Pallesen oddly believes in reforming the voting system so that parents should be given "the votes of their < 18 yo children."https://archive.is/JIsZ2
As of 2025, Pallessen describes himself as supporting "more births" on his Twitter handle.https://archive.is/YiLsu
==Promotion of "high welfare" meat==
Pallesen advocates an expensive meat-based diet but pretends to care about the welfare of the animals he eats.https://archive.is/ads9k He has criticized factory farming.https://archive.is/FNJUXhttps://archive.is/p26p1https://archive.is/p1kWVhttps://archive.is/dDSCe He claims he only eats meat from "high welfare" and "organic" farms including "grass-fed" beef and "free-range" chicken.https://archive.is/iN0hmhttps://archive.is/OYgl8https://archive.is/lBuLZ He also claims without providing any evidence that all animals on "high welfare" farms "live great lives".
One of his bizarre claims is that people can "exclusively" eat high welfare meat.You can easily eat exclusively high welfare meat. X.com. Archived. The expensive grass-fed steaks that Pallesen consumes on a daily basis are around 91.5 DKK (nearly 13 dollars each).100% grass-fed beef. soeagergaard.com. It is unrealistic to suggest the mass population are going to spend this amount of money on a steak when beans, lentils and potatoes are a much cheaper option. He also claims without providing any evidence that people should eat "high welfare" meat rather than become vegetarians.Better to eat free range, high welfare meat than to be vegetarian. X.com. Archived.
Similar to other anti-vegans such as Diana Fleischman and Anatoly Karlin; Pallessen claims to care about animal suffering. He claims that "high welfare" meat from organic farms is ethical but factory farmed meat is unethical.https://archive.is/8mgSIhttps://archive.is/p1kWV He describes meat from factory farms as "evil" but doesn't explain why meat from organic farms is good for the animals.https://archive.is/HG3LQhttps://archive.is/micpFhttps://archive.is/TcoqM Palleson lacks education about animal management practices and appears unaware that many of the same mutilation practices used in "organic farms" are exactly the same in factory farms. For example, castrations, dehorning of cattle and goats, ear notching, ear tagging, nose rings, piglet teeth grinding, slap marking are all standard practices. He also fails to acknowledge that many animals from "free-range" or "organic" farms are sent to the same slaughterhouses as factory farmed animals.
Pallesen argues that cows do not suffer in "high welfare" farms without providing any scientific material to back up his claim. He is either ignorant or unaware that dairy calves are separated from their mother usually immediately after birth. The male calves are killed, or sold to be reared for beef or veal. Pallesen claims "animals dying is not a problem I care about, I care about animal suffering" and more recently has claimed "animal suffering is one of our most important issues".https://archive.is/PS7uphttps://archive.is/10185 This is likely to be a case of online virtue signaling rather than a real concern for animals.
===Climate change misinformation===
Pallesen accepts the fact of climate change but denies any animal agriculture connection and downplays it's importance (this classifies him as a denialist). Pallesen has written that he believes immigration is more of a concern to the planet than climate change.https://archive.is/EA90T
In a failed attempt to justify his meat-based diet, Pallesen promotes misinformation about climate change, claiming that cows have no impact on global warming.https://ghostarchive.org/archive/4QFw2
Despite what Pallesen believes, the grass-fed beef farming that he supports is a net contributor to carbon emissions.Grass-fed beef will not help tackle climate change, report finds. carbonbrief.org. A report by the Food Climate Research Network at the University of Oxford found that while grazing of grass-fed animals can increase sequestration of carbon in some locally specific circumstances this effect is "time-limited, reversible, and at the global level, substantially outweighed by the greenhouse gas emissions they generate".Is grass-fed beef good or bad for the climate?. ox.ac.uk. The report concluded:
A 2023 study found that grass-fed farming operations have 20% higher production emissions and 42% higher carbon footprint than grain-finished systems.Carbon opportunity cost increases carbon footprint advantage of grain-finished beef. journals.plos.org.
Pallesen is entirely silent about this evidence.
==See also==
*Human Diversity Foundation
*Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence
==Selected publications==
*Polygenic Scores Mediate the Jewish Phenotypic Advantage in Educational Attainment and Cognitive Ability Compared With Catholics and Lutherans with Curtis S. Dunkel, Emil O. W. Kirkegaard and Michael A. Woodley of Menie, 2019.
*The Left-liberal Skew of Western Media with Noah Carl, Emil Elgaard and Emil O. W. Kirkegaard, 2021.
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