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Jordan Lasker
EducationTexas Tech University
Scientific career
FieldsIntelligence

Jordan Lasker (also known by internet handle Crémieux) is an American internet personality and independent researcher who argues for a genetic relationship between race and intelligence. He has promoted eugenics and natalism.[1][2] On X and Substack, Lasker is known for compiling charts on what he calls the "Black-White IQ gap".[3] His research on race and intelligence has been criticized by academics as an example of pseudoscience entering the mainstream.[4][5][6]

Background

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Lasker was a PhD student at Texas Tech University.[4] He was raised as a Christian and is believed to have converted to Judaism in college.[7] He resides at Macon, Georgia.[7]

In 2025, an investigation by the magazine Mother Jones found that between 2014 and 2016 Lasker had made many anti-Semitic and racist posts on Reddit under the pseudonym Faliceer.[7] In 2016, the account Faliceer self-identified as a "Jewish White Supremacist Nazi". He also wished Adolf Hitler a happy birthday, promoted eugenics and attacked interracial relationships.[7]

Lasker uses the X account Crémieux Recueil named after the 19th-century French politician Adolphe Crémieux.[7] In July 2025 he had more than 260,000 followers.[7]

Career

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Lasker has argued that crime is genetic and has compiled race and intelligence charts on X and Substack.[3][2] Lasker is a hereditarian who has supported the racialist research of Richard Lynn.[2][5]

In 2019, Lasker co-authored a controversial paper, "Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability" with Bryan Pesta, John G. R. Fuerst, and Emil Kirkegaard. The paper cited data from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes.[4] An investigation found that the paper's principal investigator Bryan Pesta had violated his data-use agreement by uploading restricted data to an "unapproved online forensic DNA-phenotyping service". The NIH ordered Pesta to destroy any copies of the dataset by June 2021.[4] Pesta’s institution, Cleveland State University stated that Lasker had retained an unauthorized copy of the dataset.[8] Pesta was later dismissed from his position at Cleveland State University.[2]

In 2020, Lasker co-authored a meta-analysis defending hereditarianism, "Racial and ethnic group differences in the heritability of intelligence" with John G. R. Fuerst, Emil Kirkegaard, Jan te Nijenhuis and Bryan Pesta.[5] The meta-analysis was denounced as a "racially motivated and poorly executed work" by psychologist Eric Turkheimer.[5]

Lasker as Crémieux has posted comments on X implying that Black people are genetically inferior to whites.[9][10] Elon Musk and JD Vance both follow Crémieux on X.[9][11][12] Liam Scott of the Columbia Journalism Review described Lasker as a "promoter of white supremacist views".[13]

He was a speaker at the 2024 Manifest conference. Eugenicist Jonathan Anomaly was also a speaker.[2] Lasker has spoken out in favor of natalism.[2][14] Early in 2025, Lasker was a speaker at the Natal Conference, which has been criticized for including speakers promoting far-right ideologies such as Raw Egg Nationalist.[2][15]

Hacking incident

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In July 2025, Lasker shared details of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's application to Columbia University with The New York Times. In that application, Mamdani, a member of the Indian diaspora born in Uganda, identified himself as both "Asian" and "Black or African American". The data was derived from a hack, and Lasker shared it with The New York Times as an intermediary. The resulting report generated controversy for both Mamdani and The New York Times.[16][17] The hacker had used a pseudonym called the "Anime Nazi" whom Lasker had thanked and called "the nicest possible hacker". Lasker also encouraged the hacker to target other universities.[18]

Selected publications

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  • Kirkegaard, Emil O. W.; Lasker, Jordan; Kura, Kenya (2019-04-24). "The Intelligence of Biracial Children of U.S. Servicemen in Northeast Asia: Results from Japan". Psych. 1 (1): 132–138. doi:10.3390/psych1010010. ISSN 2624-8611.
  • Lasker, Jordan; Pesta, Bryan J.; Fuerst, John G. R.; Kirkegaard, Emil O. W. (30 August 2019). "Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability". Psych. 1 (1): 431–459. doi:10.3390/psych1010034.
  • Kirkegaard, Emil O. W.; Lasker, Jordan (2019-12-23). "Intelligence and Religiosity among Dating Site Users". Psych. 2 (1): 25–33. doi:10.3390/psych2010003. ISSN 2624-8611.
  • Pesta, Bryan J.; Kirkegaard, Emil O. W.; te Nijenhuis, Jan; Lasker, Jordan; Fuerst, John G. R. (2020-01-01). "Racial and ethnic group differences in the heritability of intelligence: A systematic review and meta-analysis". Intelligence. 78 101408. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2019.101408. ISSN 0160-2896.
  • Lasker, Jordan (September 2024). "Measurement Invariance Testing Works". Applied Psychological Measurement. 48 (6): 257–275. doi:10.1177/01466216241261708. ISSN 0146-6216. PMC 11331746. PMID 39166183.
  • Svraka, Bernadett; Lasker, Jordan; Ujma, Péter Przemyslaw (2024-11-03). "Cognitive, affective and sociological predictors of school performance in mathematics". Scientific Reports. 14 (1): 26480. Bibcode:2024NatSR..1426480S. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-77904-7. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 11532492. PMID 39489790.

References

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  1. ^ Krishnan, Manisha (31 March 2025). "Far-Right Influencers Are Hosting a $10K-per-Person Matchmaking Weekend to Repopulate the Earth". Wired. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Wilson, Jason (3 March 2025). "US natalist conference to host race-science promoters and eugenicists". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  3. ^ a b Breland, Ali (9 July 2025). "A Race-Science Blogger Goes Mainstream". The Atlantic. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  4. ^ a b c d Standifer, Cid (13 October 2022). "Racial Pseudoscience on the Faculty". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  5. ^ a b c d Giangrande, Evan J; Turkheimer, Eric (2022). "Race, Ethnicity, and the Scarr-Rowe Hypothesis: A Cautionary Example of Fringe Science Entering the Mainstream". Perspect Psychol Sci. 17 (3): 696–710. doi:10.1177/17456916211017498. PMID 34793248.
  6. ^ Cooper, Ryan (2025). "What We Learned From The New York Times' Anti-Zohran Crusade". The American Prospect. Archived from the original on August 14, 2025.
  7. ^ a b c d e f Lanard, Noah (2025). "The Shocking Rise of One of the Tech Right's Favorite Posters". Mother Jones. Archived from the original on August 13, 2025.
  8. ^ Bird, Kevin A; Carlson, Jedidiah (2024). "Typological thinking in human genomics research contributes to the production and prominence of scientific racism". Front. Genet. 15 1345631. doi:10.3389/fgene.2024.1345631. PMC 10910073. PMID 38440191.
  9. ^ a b Lanard, Noah (2025). "Elon Musk Keeps Boosting White Nationalists on X". Mother Jones. Archived from the original on February 10, 2025.
  10. ^ Valle, Gaby Del (2025). "Why are liberals cozying up to race scientists?". The Verge. Archived from the original on July 11, 2025.
  11. ^ Breland, Ali (2024). "'Race Science' Is Inching Its Way Across the American Right". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on August 20, 2024.
  12. ^ Walker, Hunter (2025). "JD Vance's 'Neofascist' Reading List". Yahoo News. Archived from the original on March 8, 2025.
  13. ^ Scott, Liam (2025). "Times Mamdani Article Using Hacked Documents from White Supremacist Draws Outcry". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on July 7, 2025.
  14. ^ Steffens, Von Frauke (2025). "Was will das rechte Bündnis hinter Elon Musk?". Faz.net. Archived from the original on 22 March 2025. Musk also shared several posts on X by Cremieux, identified by the Guardian as Jordan Lasker. Lasker advocates the theory, supported by Musk, that all countries will eventually collapse because not enough women are having children. Proponents of the "pronatalist" ideology express, with varying degrees of clarity, that it's also about which groups reproduce".
  15. ^ Eubank, Britny (28 March 2025). "'Nazis are not welcome in Austin' UT students to protest controversial on-campus conference". KVUE. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  16. ^ Denjamin, Ryan (3 July 2025). "Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application". New York Times. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  17. ^ Schwartz, Rafi (8 July 2025). "The New York Times plays defense after publishing leaked Mamdani college application details". The Week. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  18. ^ Lopatto, Elizabeth (2025). "This 'violently racist' hacker claims to be the source of The New York Times' Mamdani scoop". The Verge. Archived from the original on August 31, 2025.
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