Jordan Lasker

Jordan Lasker is an American eugenicist and hereditarianism pseudoscientist who is involved with Richard Hanania's Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI) and is a writer for the far-right Aporia Magazine.Jailbirds of a Feather Flock Together. aporiamagazine.com.Elites are genetically different. aporiamagazine.com.Racial Pseudoscience on the Faculty by Cid Standifer (October 13, 2022) The Chronicle of Higher Education (archived from 15 Oct 2022 08:45:05 UTC).
Lasker lists his current affiliation as Texas Tech University.Jordan Lasker. scholar.google.com. He claims to be a bioinformatician working at a genomics company.Baby Brainwaves and Broken Science | Jordan Lasker & Richard Hanania. youtube.com. Lasker's race and intelligence research has been criticized for "severe theoretical, methodological, and rhetorical flaws" and has been described as an example of "fringe science".Race, Ethnicity, and the Scarr-Rowe Hypothesis: A Cautionary Example of Fringe Science Entering the Mainstream. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
==Publications==
In 2019, Lasker co-authored "Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability" with John G. R. Fuerst, Emil Kirkegaard, Bryan J. Pesta in the MDPI journal Psych.Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability. mdpi.com. During this time, Lasker listed his affiliation as the department of economics at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities but there was no confirmation that he had worked there.
 He was a speaker at the 2022 International Society for Intelligence Research Annual Conference with neo-Nazi Helmuth Nyborg, Heiner Rindermann, Emily Willoughby and other HBD pseudoscientists.2022 International Society for Intelligence Research Annual Conference. isironline.org.Understanding Intelligence: Video of Interviews From Attendees of the 2022 ISIR Conference. parrhesia.co. Some of Lasker's papers are co-authored with white supremacist Emil Kirkegaard and are published in Intelligence and the Psych journal.Jordan Lasker. scholar.google.com.Intelligence and Religiosity among Dating Site Users. mdpi.com.White Supremacist Who Wants Legal Child Porn Doing Business Through Wyoming LLC. cowboystatedaily.com. Archived. 
Lasker's IQ research is mostly supported by the far-right including the "Human Varieties" blog,Search results for Jordan Lasker, Human Varieties. the white supremacist American RenaissanceNo Skin in the Game. amren.com. and has been positively cited by Holocaust denier Lipton Matthews on the neo-Nazi website Counter-Currents.The Reality of the Black-White IQ Gap Is Undeniable. counter-currents.com.
===2020 meta-analysis===
In 2020, Lasker co-authored a meta-analysis "Racial and ethnic group differences in the heritability of intelligence" with white nationalists John G. R. Fuerst, Emil Kirkegaard, Jan te Nijenhuis and Bryan Pesta.Racial and ethnic group differences in the heritability of intelligence: A systematic review and meta-analysis. sciencedirect.com. Their meta-analysis was heavily criticized as a "racially motivated and poorly executed work" by Evan J. Giangrande and Eric Turkheimer:
==Blogger==
In April 2022, Lasker, under his real name, wrote an article for Richard Hanania's Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI).About Those Baby Brainwaves. substack.com. Archived.
==See also==
*Jonatan Pallesen — Danish hereditarian who also writes for the Aporia Magazine.
==References==
Category:Aporia Magazine
Category:Eugenics supporters
Category:Living people
Category:Racialism pseudoscientists