Human Diversity Foundation

The Human Diversity Foundation (HDF) is a far-right company founded by Danish white supremacist and child porn activist Emil Kirkegaard to promote pseudoscientific racialism and eugenics.White Supremacist Who Wants Legal Child Porn Doing Business Through Wyoming LLC. cowboystatedaily.com. Archived.Race Science Inc. Undercover in The Human Diversity Foundation, the million-dollar race science company by Harry Shukman & Patrik Hermansson (Oct. 16, 2024) Hope Not Hate. Archived.Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss by David Pegg et al. (16 Oct 2024 09.00 EDT) The Guardian. Archived. The company was founded in Wyoming by Sanjay Nediyara, a California-based entrepreneurSanjay Nediyara LinkedIn. in 2022 as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), and became publicly associated with Kirkegaard under his new name (as of November 2022), William Engman, the following year.Human Diversity Foundation LLC Wyoming Secretary of State. See "Initial Filing" link (11/15/2022) and "Delinquency Notice - Tax - 2023-004440664" (11/15/2022). Archived. Key persons of the HDF including the neo-Nazi Matthew Frost (a.k.a. Matthew Archer) and Erik Ahrens support white nationalism, while Kirkegaard has a long history of far-right activism. The HDF is a rebrand of the racist Pioneer Fund and currently publishes OpenPsych, Aporia Magazine, Mankind Quarterly and The Jolly Heretic. Since 2023, HDF has also claimed to be a non-profit on its website, theoretically possible for an LLC, but has not revealed what type (501(c)(3) is required), and has also stated that they are not seeking funding.Can an LLC Be a Nonprofit? by Rebecca DeSimone (July 31, 2024) Legal Zoom.Human Diversity Foundation. Archived. Members of HDF have been involved in unethical practices and deceptive tactics to promote their racialist agenda.
Both Aporia and Edward Dutton's Substack are managed by HDF. Their combined estimated annual revenue in 2024 was $188,000.Substack’s problem with racists (16 Oct. 2024) Hope Not Hate.
==History==
The Human Diversity Foundation was founded by Emil Kirkegaard in 2022 and registered as a limited liability company in Wyoming.Human Diversity Foundation LLC. Wyoming Secretary of State. It is a rebrand of the almost-defunct Pioneer Fund, whose monetary assets were given to Kirkegaard. According to an undercover investigation by Hope not Hate in October 2024:
 
The company's name was likely inspired by Bryan Pesta's Human Phenome Diversity Foundation which has received funding from the Pioneer Fund. In 2019, Pesta and John Fuerst founded the Human Phenome Diversity Foundation and registered it as a non-profit organisation in Ohio, describing its goal to "support scientific research on human phenotypic and biological diversity".The Human Phenome Diversity Foundation appears to be defunct and Pesta would later join the HDF.
==Branches==
The HDF has two main branches including a "research" and "media" wing. The latter includes the publication of the Aporia Magazine while the former Mankind Quarterly and OpenPsych although it appears the Mankind Quarterly is indirectly published by the HDF through a separate company Kirkegaard owns named Mankind House Publishing. 
==Members==
===Key people===
*Emil Kirkegaard: founder of HDF and white supremacist. He is a self-described eugenicist.Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists by Jason Wilson (January 14, 2024) The Guardian. Archived 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."
*Erik Ahrens: a German far-right extremist who is active in the Alternative for Germany party. Ahrens is also a fundamentalist Christian and founder of GegenUni.
*Edward Dutton: a white nationalist who runs The Jolly Heretic podcast. He is on the HDF's payroll of approximately $40,000 a year.
*Matthew Frost (a.k.a. Matthew Archer), a neo-Nazi and founder of Aporia Magazine who sold it to Kirkegaard and which is now owned by the HDF. Frost attended the far-right Guide to Kulchur in 2023. He is a former religious studies teacher at Kensington Park School.
===Research wing===
Emil Kirkegaard leads an "underground research wing" of HDF which is a continuation of the Pioneer Fund's racialist research. This consists of a small group of eugenicist and hereditarian pseudoscientists who convene weekly for a video call to coordinate their ideas. Only 6 (including Kirkegaard) of them are publicly knownThe 6 revealed members of the underground research wing appeared on Hope Not Hate's undercover investigation during a video meeting on 6th November 2023. Bo Winegard was active during the meeting but according to Kirkegaard is part of their "media team":
 
*Bryan Pesta
*Meng Hu
*Davide Piffer
*Simon Wright, pseudonym of a HBD researcher who claims to have access to UK Biobank data which he downloaded.Race science’ group say they accessed sensitive UK health data by Tom Burgis et al. (17 Oct 2024 09.05 EDT) The Guardian. Archived.Concerns raised over access to UK Biobank data after ‘race scientists’ claims by David Pegg et al. (25 Oct 2024 14.15 EDT) The Guardian.
All of the above have published in OpenPsych or Mankind Quarterly.
The others, based on people who have written for the two journals, might be:
*George FrancisGeorge Francis OpenPsych.
*John Fuerst
*Sebastian Jensen, pseudonym of a porn writer and self-confessed "white nationalist/soft Nazi" who writes for OpenPsych journal.Sebastian Jensen (pseudonym) OpenPsych.Who Am I?. sebjensen.substack.com.Erotica I have written. sebjensen.substack.com. In an article "Top 20 race scientists", Jensen claims "the autism meme is true, insomuch as close to half of the people on this list have clinical levels of autism".Top 20 race scientists. sebjensen.substack.com. He has also made a video "How Race Science Could Permeate the Mainstream".How Race Science Could Permeate the Mainstream. sebjensen.substack.com.
*Jordan LaskerGlobal Ancestry and Cognitive Ability by Jordan Lasker et al. 1(1): 431-459. OpenPsych.
*J. Rayner-Hilles (a.k.a. John R. Hilles)Early Modern Witches and Demonic Sexual Fantasies: An Evolutionary Perspective by Edward Dutton & John R. Hilles (2021) Mankind Quarterly 61(4). doi:10.46469/mq.2021.61.4.9.
The agenda of this research wing is to get their eugenics and pseudoscientific race and intelligence research published in mainstream science journals. As Hope not Hate have noted:
So far at least one study authored by Russell T. Warne was funded by HDF and published in a mainstream journal.Protocol for a meta-analysis of stereotype threat in African Americans by Russell T. Warne & Ross A. A Larsen. (2024) PLoS One 19(7):e0306030. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0306030.
===Media team===
*Noah Carl
*Bo Winegard, executive editor of Aporia."About Aporia". Aporia Magazine. Kirkegaard has stated that "Winegard is not part of the research team; he is part of the media team".Taboo science inc. by Emil O. W. Kirkegaard (31. October 2024) Clear Language, Clear Mind Blog (emilkirkegaard.dk).
===Funders===
*Andrew Conru, founder of Adult Friend Finder, donated $1.3 million to HDF through his Conru Foundation. He has also funded Bryan Pesta. A few days after Conru's funding of HDF was made public, he vowed not to fund HDF, or other racist and extremist organizations that he had previously funded, including Jared Taylor (American Renaissance), The Unz Review, and Turning Point USA.Seattle arts funder, after Guardian report, disavows ‘hateful ideology’ by Margo Vansynghel (Oct. 22, 2024 at 10:00 am) The Seattle Times. His apology did not answer the question of whether Conru was sympathetic to those beliefs or whether he is just easily conned.
==Views==
===White nationalism===
Most of the HFD members support white nationalism. Erik Ahrens openly supports a white ethnostate and described his plan to create a homeland for "white, Christian people".
===Remigration===
HDF's key persons most notably Matthew Frost support Kirkegaard has written that he favours paying immigrants to leave Denmark:
===Child pornography and incest===
Emil Kirkegaard (who legally changed his name to William Engman) is an infamous activist for legalizing child pornography and incest. Other members of the HDF are either unaware about his distasteful views on pedophilia and incest or they choose to ignore them. Kirkegaard wrongly argued that incest "does no harm nowadays and should therefore not be illegal",See here for his incest blog posts. that homosexuality is a mental illness and has stated that it is a "good idea to legalize child porn" because he thinks viewing child porn reduces rape rates.Homosexuality is a mental illness by Emil O. W. Kirkegaard (Jan 26, 2023) Just Emil Kirkegaard Things. Archived.
Kirkegaard further wrote a blog post on his website titled "the ban on child porn possession", which disturbingly suggested: "Perhaps a compromise is having sex with a sleeping child without them knowing it (so, using sleeping medicine). If they dont notice it is difficult to see how they cud be harmed, even if it is rape."The ban on child porn possession, Clear Language, Clear Mind, emilkirkegaard.dkThe ban on child porn possession. In another blog post, Kirkegaard defended the legalization of animated child porn.On the prohibition of animated child pornography. Emil Kirkegaard.
==Publications==
===Aporia Magazine===
HDF (which is owned by Kirkegaard) publishes the Aporia Magazine (which Kirkegaard bought from Matthew Frost). Aporia is a far-right online magazine and podcast that openly promotes "white identity politics" and publishes articles on HBD and conspiracy theories such as the Great Replacement. It has also featured articles written by prominent eugenicists. Jared Taylor a white supremacist and founder of American Renaissance has featured on their podcast discussing "white culture".Is white culture a thing? by Jared Taylor (May 12, 2024) Aporia. Archived.
===Mankind Quarterly===
HDF indirectly publishes the racist pseudojournal Mankind Quarterly. Kirkegaard was the public domain registrant for the Mankind Quarterly website between 2017 and February 2023, after which the records were anonymised.the.dfx@gmail.com Website Informer (archived from 3 May 2019 03:01:30 UTC). In February 2024, Kirkegaard created Mankind Publishing House LLC in the state of Wyoming. The company was likely set up to directly publish the Mankind Quarterly. This was finally confirmed in January 2025 when Kirkegaard updated the website claiming the journal is published by Mankind Publishing House.Mankind Quarterly (archived from 11 Jan 2025 11:12:38 UTC).
===The Jolly Heretic===
HDF publishes Edward Dutton's The Jolly Heretic podcast which is active on Substack and YouTube. As of November 2023, Dutton’s Substack had an annual revenue of $62,400 all of which is funnelled into HDF. Dutton is on record for claiming black people "don’t do very well academically and don’t behave very well either".
==Unethical activities==
===UK Biobank data===
Simon Wright from HDF has claimed to have downloaded UK Biobank data. Hidden camera footage also revealed Matthew Frost claiming that "they’ve managed to get access to the UK Biobank,” and to know more "talk to Emil". The UK Biobank has denied that any HDF members have have ever been approved for access. In October 2024, UK Biobank stated:
 
===Wikipedia harassment===
Members of HDF have been involved in harassing alleged left-wing Wikipedia editors whom they claim are controlling articles on race and intelligence. HDF have created numerous sockpuppet accounts that have been blocked, so they have resorted to using IP addresses. Emil Kirkegaard is indefinitely blocked on Wikipedia.Deleet Wikipedia. Banned on February 21, 2019 for WP:CIVIL (civility) and WP:NPA (No personal attacks).User:Deleet Wikipedia (archived from April 10, 2019). Confirms that User:Deleet is Emil O. W. Kirkegaard. Their favourite target articles are and disputed content issues can be found on the respective talk pages.
===Institution affiliation===
In journals such as his own OpenPsych and others, Emil Kirkegaard does not list the Human Diversity Foundation because of its links to white nationalism. Kirkegaard has claimed to be affiliated with several other organizations.
The Ulster Institute for Social Research and its secretary Huw Gruffydd in February 2024 wrote a letter stating that Emil Kirkegaard was falsely claiming to be affiliated to the Ulster Institute and therefore accused him of lying.So what exactly is the deal with Emil O. W. Kirkegaard? (March 1, 2024) Pinkerite. Archived. Image of a February 1, 2024 letter from Gruffydd to Oliver Smith contained within. In their own words, "he is not, as he claims, affiliated to the Ulster Institute." Despite this, Kirkegaard as of March 2024 was describing himself as a "research fellow" at the Ulster Institute on his social media profiles (including Facebook), OpenPsych forum, and on his Google Scholar page.Emil O. W. Kirkegaard Facebook (archived from 6 Jan 2024 23:51:39 UTC).Emil Ole William Kirkegaard Google Scholar (archived from 1 Mar 2024 13:19:52 UTC).Emil O. W. Kirkegaard OpenPsych (archived from 2 Mar 2024 16:45:14 UTC). As of November 2024, Kirkegaard previously claime to be a research fellow at the Ulster Institute on his ResearchGate page.Emil O. W. Kirkegaard ResearchGate (archived from 24 Nov 2024 02:17:33 UTC). 
Kirkegaard has also listed his affiliation at OpenPsych as the "Arthur Jensen Institute".Arthur Jensen InstituteOpenPsych. Archived. There is no evidence that this institute exists.
==Notes==
==References==
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