Bryan Pesta

Bryan J. Pesta is a hereditarianism pseudoscientist, vexatious litigant, anal bleacher, self-described "racial realist" and former editor-in-chief of Psych who has published in the white supremacist journal Mankind Quarterly.Mankind Quarterly Volume 56, Number 3, 2016Mankind Quarterly Volume 58, Number 4, 2018 He was a Professor of Graduate Business Programs at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio until he was fired in March 2022 for unethical conduct specifically for violating data-use from the National Institutes of Health by uploading restricted data to an "unapproved online forensic DNA-phenotyping service". The NIH also conducted an independent investigation and issued sanctions against Pesta for his misconduct including banning him from using their data for three years. Despite his, he filed a frivolous lawsuit against the CSU who he claimed unfairly fired him. He of course lost. Pesta has controversially published racist pseudoscience with white nationalists John Fuerst, Emil Kirkegaard and Jordan Lasker. Pesta has admitted to receiving money from the eugenics Pioneer Fund.Draper’s Millions: The Philanthropic Wellspring of Modern Race Science. race.undark.org. Archived. 
Pesta has supported racist stereotypes and pseudoscience black men have the biggest penis size. This is despite the fact peer-reviewed studies have disproven this."Oversized Penile Length In The Black People; Myth Or Reality". (2007). JC, Orakwe., GU, Ebuh. Tropical Journal of Medical Research. 11(1): 16-18. A 2015 systematic review of 15,521 men found "no indications of differences in racial variability", and it is not possible to draw any conclusions about penis size and race from the available literature. Former students from his classes at Cleveland State University have stated he often told offensive penis jokes. 
In December 2022, Pesta became a writer for the right-wing magazine Quillette.Bryan J. Pesta He is an atheist.Atheists' MySpace page restored after hacking incident
==Academic background==
Pesta's academic background is primarily in business management and psychology, with a master's degree in labor relations and human resources from Cleveland State University and Ph.D. in psychology with a concentration in cognitive aging from the University of Akron. He has published some legitimate research in reputable psychology journals such as on memory and the link between religion and intelligence.His Google Scholar profileThe bright, the dim, and the in-between 
==Race and intelligence==
Pesta is active in promoting discredited theories about race and intelligence, despite having no publicly known credentials in relevant fields such as biology or genetics. For instance, he pals around with Emil Kirkegaard and other racialist pseudoscientists, serving on the editorial board of one of Kirkegaard's OpenPsych pseudojournals, (co-)authoring three articles in these journals and reviewing four others,OpenPsych profile further coauthoring a recent article with Kirkegaard in the overtly racist Mankind Quarterly.An S Factor Analysis on the Provinces of Vietnam: Relationships with Cognitive Ability, Ethnicity, and Latitude He used to edit Wikipedia's article about back in 2010.Wikipedia Talk: Race and Intelligence In 2019, he returned to create Michael A. Woodley of Menie's Wikipedia article (which was deleted in 2022).Bpesta22: User contributions. Wikipedia.
Pesta controversially co-authors pseudoscientific race and intelligence papers with white nationalist John Fuerst.Bryan J Pesta. ResearchGate.Bibliometric Keyword Analysis across Seventeen Years (2000–2016) of Intelligence ArticlesDoes intelligence explain national score variance on graduate admissions exams? In 2019, Pesta and Fuerst founded the Human Phenome Diversity Foundation, an organization whose mission it to "support scientific research on human phenotypic and biological diversity". According to Angela Saini:
===International Society for Intelligence Research===
Pesta was a speaker at the International Society for Intelligence Research in 2010.The International Society for Intelligence Research 11th Conference. isironline.org.
===Psych journal===
Because OpenPsych was heavily criticized by the media in 2018 for its association with eugenics and white supremacy, most racialists stopped publishing in it. In 2019, Pesta who served on their editorial board, became "Special Issue Editor" of Psych's Beyond Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability.Beyond Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability. Bryan J. Pesta. The project was set up to validate J. Philippe Rushton and Arthur Jensen's pseudoscientific hereditarianism research.
In July 2019 over a controversy with Richard Lynn, the Psych journal no longer publishes racist pseudoscience.Prof who lost emeritus status for views on race and intelligence has paper flagged Pesta no longer sits on the Editorial Board.Editorial Board
===Bryan J Pesta's lab===
Between 2019 and 2022, Pesta claimed on ResearchGate to operate a laboratory at Cleveland State University.Bryan J Pesta's Lab Archived from the original on May 3, 2019. There were only two "research fellows" of the lab, John Fuerst and Emil Kirkegaard. On 18 October 2022, Kirkegaard claimed the laboratory never existed: "Everybody who uses ResearchGate knows that it will occasionally suggest that recent work was done by some lab, if you click yes to that, it will auto-generate one of these fictive labs."https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1582212274101817345 However, this is contradicted by the fact Pesta specifically listed his lab as Cleveland State University under "institution" when he could have left it blank.https://archive.is/GXYXa#selection-709.0-711.26. According to ResearchGate: "A lab is a group of scientists, led by a senior researcher, who conduct experiments and research together on a specific topic. You can now quickly set up your lab on ResearchGate to showcase the work your lab is doing."https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/Labs If Pesta did not want to mislead people into thinking he ran a laboratory at CSU, he should have not typed in that place as the lab's institution.
==Recent activity==
Pesta continues to publish racialist pseudoscience with John Fuerst, Emil Kirkegaard, and Jan te Nijenhuis.
In March, 2022 Pesta was fired from Cleveland State University for misconduct and what the CSU described as the “most serious and longest such ban in history”:https://www.ideastream.org/education/2023-03-22/fired-cleveland-state-professor-files-suit-alleging-violation-of-his-first-amendment-rights
As of November 2022, Pesta claims to be unemployable in the United States and is begging for donations from the far-right community:
Various racists and white nationalists such as Emil Kirkegaard, Charles Murray, and Steve Sailer at The Unz Review have supported Pesta.
Despite claiming to be in a bad financial situtation and begging for donations, public records show before being fired from Cleveland State University, Pesta's annual salary was $172,775 which is 278 percent higher than the average salary at the same university.https://govsalaries.com/bryan-pesta-84518083 Pesta has set up online crowdfunds and has recieved more than $10,000 in donations.https://www.givesendgo.com/G9END
On March 16, 2023 Pesta filed a lawsuit against Cleveland State University and six defendants who work at the university including the president of the CSU. Pesta's attorney, Frederick C. Kelly, previously was hired by white nationalist .https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016f-8dbd-dcf7-a96f-cdbd7ffa0000 Pesta is seeking "money damages and injunctive relief against all defendants."https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ohio/ohndce/1:2023cv00546/295763 Pesta claims his sacking was a violation of his First Amendment rights to academic freedom, freedom of speech, and freedom of association.Pesta v. Cleveland State University et al Pesta also seeks a bizarre declaratory judgment:
His lawsuit has been supported by various far-right websites including Steve Sailer's blog column at The Unz Review.Tenured Professor Bryan J. Pesta Sues for Being Fired for His Breakthrough Study of the Causes of the Racial Gap in Average IQ
Emil Kirkegaard, Pesta's main attack-dog, has harassed various individuals on social media mentioned by Pesta in his complaint for a civil case by calling them "terrorists".https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1636677442826797057
As of 2024, Pesta is still publishing articles with Emil Kirkegaard for the racist Mankind Quarterly and OpenPsych pseudojournals.An S Factor Analysis on the Provinces of Vietnam: Relationships with Cognitive Ability, Ethnicity, and Latitude. mankindquarterly.org. Despite being fired from Cleveland State University in 2022, Pesta still lists the university as his affiliation for OpenPsych.https://openpsych.net/paper/77/
===Loss of frivolous lawsuit===
Pesta's claim his First Amendment rights were violated when he was fired from Cleveland State University never had any factual basis. The case was easily won by the defendants and the judge in an order granting summary judgment for the defendants wrote: "Pesta’s theory is not supported by the facts. The evidence submitted to the Court overwhelmingly supports Defendants’ version of the events."https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67021659/73/pesta-v-cleveland-state-university/ Ultimately the judge agreed with the CSU that Pesta was justifiably fired for misconduct (improperly accessing and using data from the NIH). The judge also criticised John Fuerst, Emil Kirkegaard, and Jordan Lasker, for "trying to coverup the true reason for accessing the NIH data". Similar to Pesta, Kirkegaard has a history of filing and losing frivolous lawsuits.
==Anal bleaching==
Bryan Pesta has written disturbing posts that have defended the practice of anal bleaching:
==See also==
* Anatoly Karlin — similar racialist pseudosience promoter who believes black men have larger penis sizes
* Edward M. Miller — another black cock obsessed white supremacist
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