Jordan Lasker

{{Short description|American internet personality}} {{Infobox person | name =Jordan Lasker | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | citizenship =American | other_names =Crémieux Recueil | occupation =Internet personality; researcher | known_for =Writing about race science,<ref name="Breland"/><ref name="Wilson 2025"/><ref name="benjamin-2025"/> [[psychometrics]], [[GLP-1 receptor agonist]]s<ref name="NYT-GLP1"/><ref name="atlantic-GLP1"/> | education = | alma_mater = | website ={{URL|https://www.cremieux.xyz/archive}} }}

'''Jordan Lasker''' (also known on social media as '''Crémieux Recueil''') is an American [[internet personality]] and [[independent researcher]]. He is also known on [[Twitter|X]] and [[Substack]] for compiling charts on what he calls the "Black-White IQ gap",<ref name="Breland">{{cite news |last=Breland|first=Ali|date=9 July 2025|title=A Race-Science Blogger Goes Mainstream|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/cremieux-race-science-new-york-times/683474/|work=[[The Atlantic]]|location= |publisher= |access-date=22 July 2025}}</ref> and discussing [[GLP-1 receptor agonist]]s.<ref name="NYT-GLP1"/><ref name="atlantic-GLP1"/> His views on [[race and intelligence]] have been criticized as an example of [[pseudoscience]] entering mainstream academia.<ref name="Standifer"/><ref name="az">{{Cite web|author=Cooper, Ryan|date=2025|title=What We Learned From The New York Times' Anti-Zohran Crusade|url=https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-09-what-we-learned-from-new-york-times-anti-zohran-crusade/|website=The American Prospect|language=en-GB|archive-date=14 August 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250814090830/https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-09-what-we-learned-from-new-york-times-anti-zohran-crusade/|url-status=live}}</ref> He has been associated with [[natalism]].<ref name="Wilson 2025"/><ref name="von-frauke"/>

==Background== In 2022, Lasker listed himself as a PhD student at [[Texas Tech University]], and in 2024 a peer-reviewed paper published in ''[[Scientific Reports]]'' listed Texas Tech University as Lasker's affiliation.<ref name="Svraka-2024">{{Cite journal |publisher=Nature Publishing Group| doi=10.1038/s41598-024-77904-7| issn=2045-2322 |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=26480 |last1=Svraka |first1=Bernadett |last2=Lasker |first2=Jordan |last3=Ujma |first3=Péter Przemyslaw |title=Cognitive, affective and sociological predictors of school performance in mathematics| journal=Scientific Reports |access-date=25 May 2026 |date=3 November 2024 |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-77904-7}}</ref> In 2019, Lasker listed himself at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities' economics department, an affiliation ''[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]]'' could not corroborate.<ref name="Standifer">{{cite news |last=Standifer|first=Cid|date=13 October 2022|title=Racial Pseudoscience on the Faculty|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/racial-pseudoscience-on-the-faculty |work=[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]]|location= |publisher= |access-date=22 July 2025}}</ref>

Lasker uses the pseudonym ''Crémieux Recueil'' after the 19th-century French politician [[Adolphe Crémieux]].<ref name="Mother Jones"/> The Verge noted Crémieux excluded Muslims from French citizenship.<ref name="NYT-getting-gamed">{{Cite magazine| first=Elizabeth| last=Lopatto| title=How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right |work=The Verge| access-date=2026-05-29| url=https://www.theverge.com/culture/700082/nyt-mamdani-news-judgment}}</ref>

==Career== ===Researcher=== Lasker is known for supporting the view that there is a genetic relationship between [[IQ and race]],<ref name="Breland"/>{{Reference page|quote=Lasker is best-known for compiling charts on the "Black-White IQ gap" and otherwise linking race to real-world outcomes. He seems convinced that any differences are the result of biology, and has shot down other possible explanations|page=1}}<ref name="cm">{{Cite news |last=McIntire |first=Mike |date=24 January 2026 |title=Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’ |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/children-genetics-race-science.html |access-date=25 May 2026 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>{{Reference page|page=1|quote=In August 2019, Dr. Pesta, Mr. Fuerst, Mr. Kirkegaard and Mr. Lasker produced an analysis of the Philadelphia data. Their paper — which appeared in Psych, an online journal that Dr. Pesta edited — had nothing to do with gender differences and brain size, the topic for which Dr. Pesta had initially obtained the data. Instead, it declared that among people of mixed race, those with greater European ancestry were more intelligent, and that genes were probably the reason.}}<ref name="Bird">{{Cite journal |last=Bird |first=Kevin A. |last2=Jackson |first2=John P. |last3=Winston |first3=Andrew S. |date=2024 |title=Confronting scientific racism in psychology: Lessons from evolutionary biology and genetics |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39037836 |journal=The American Psychologist |volume=79 |issue=4 |pages=497–508 |doi=10.1037/amp0001228 |issn=1935-990X |pmid=39037836 |url-access=subscription|doi-access=free }}</ref>{{Reference page|page=17|quote=Lasker et al., (2019) recently used admixture correlation to claim that over 60% of the racial gap in IQ scores can be explained by genetic differences}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Panofsky |first=Aaron |last2=Dasgupta |first2=Kushan |last3=Iturriaga |first3=Nicole |last4=Koch |first4=Bernard |date=2024 |title=Confronting the “Weaponization” of Genetics by Racists Online and Elsewhere |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hast.4925 |journal=Hastings Center Report |language=en |volume=54 |issue=S2 |doi=10.1002/hast.4925 |issn=0093-0334 |pmc=11784919 |pmid=39707931}}</ref>{{Reference page|page=S18|quote=And Bryan Pesta and colleagues, who did a meta-analysis of heritability studies of intelligence of different racial groups to argue that genes cause racial educational deficits}} a position that is rejected by mainstream science.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Evans |first=Gavin |date=2 March 2018 |title=The unwelcome revival of 'race science' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-revival-of-race-science |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220023319/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-revival-of-race-science |archive-date=February 20, 2019 |access-date=May 2, 2021 |work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref name="VoxConsensus">{{cite web |last1=Turkheimer |first1=Eric |last2=Harden |first2=Kathryn Paige |last3=Nisbett |first3=Richard E. |date=15 June 2017 |title=There's still no good reason to believe black-white IQ differences are due to genes |url=https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/6/15/15797120/race-black-white-iq-response-critics |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504055356/https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/6/15/15797120/race-black-white-iq-response-critics |archive-date=4 May 2021 |access-date=29 April 2021 |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=25 May 2017 |title=Intelligence research should not be held back by its past |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22021 |journal=Nature |volume=545 |issue=7655 |pages=385–386 |bibcode=2017Natur.545R.385. |doi=10.1038/nature.2017.22021 |pmid=28541341 |quote=Historical measurements of skull volume and brain weight were done to advance claims of the racial superiority of white people. More recently, the (genuine but closing) gap between the average IQ scores of groups of black and white people in the United States has been falsely attributed to genetic differences between the races.}}</ref>

In 2019, Lasker co-authored a paper "Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability" with Bryan Pesta, John G. R. Fuerst, and [[Emil Kirkegaard]], which cited data from the [[National Institutes of Health]]’s (NIH) Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes; it was referred to as "racial hereditarian research" by a 2024 paper.<ref name="Bird"/><ref name="Standifer"/>{{Reference page|location=at par. 3|quote=The argument dressed up in that statistical jargon? That Black people are genetically disposed to be less intelligent than white people.}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Matthews |first=Lucas J. |date=2022 |title=Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability |url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8837680/ |journal=Studies in History and Philosophy of Science |volume=91 |pages=1–9 |doi=10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.10.021 |issn=0039-3681 |pmc=8837680 |pmid=34781197 |quote=A small cadre of race-oriented researchers are now appealing to GWAS summary statistics available in public datasets to defend controversial claims about the genetic bases of racial differences in cognitive ability, IQ, and educational attainment (See e.g. Kirkegaard, 2015; Lasker et al., 2019; Piffer, 2015).}}</ref> An investigation later found that the 2019 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.<ref name="Standifer"/> Pesta was later dismissed from his institution, [[Cleveland State University]].<ref name="Wilson 2025"/> The university also stated that John Fuerst had retained an unauthorized copy of the dataset.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bird |first1=Kevin A |last2=Carlson |first2=Jedidiah |date=2024 |title=Typological thinking in human genomics research contributes to the production and prominence of scientific racism |journal=Front. Genet. |volume=15 |issue= |article-number=1345631 |doi=10.3389/fgene.2024.1345631 |pmid=38440191 |pmc=10910073 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

In 2020, Lasker co-authored a meta-analysis which concluded that intelligence heritability estimates do not substantially differ across racial and ethnic groups, "Racial and ethnic group differences in the heritability of intelligence" with John G. R. Fuerst, Emil Kirkegaard, [[Jan te Nijenhuis]] and Bryan Pesta.<ref name="Turkheimer 2022">{{cite journal |last1=Giangrande |first1=Evan J |last2=Turkheimer |first2=Eric |date=2022 |title=Race, Ethnicity, and the Scarr-Rowe Hypothesis: A Cautionary Example of Fringe Science Entering the Mainstream |journal=Perspect Psychol Sci |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=696–710 |doi=10.1177/17456916211017498 |pmid=34793248|url-access=subscription|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916211017498}}</ref> Psychologist [[Eric Turkheimer]] described the publication as a "racially motivated and poorly executed work".<ref name="Turkheimer 2022"/>

===Writer===

Lasker writes under the account "Crémieux Recueil" on [[Substack]].<ref name="Breland" /> He has also written for [[Aporia Magazine]] under the same ''nom de plume''.<ref name="race-science-inc">{{Cite web| title=Race Science Inc.|work=HOPE not hate| access-date=2026-05-25| url=https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science-inc/}}</ref><ref name="live-free-DEI">{{Cite web| title=Live Free or DEI| first=Gaby| last=Del Valle| work=The Baffler| access-date=25 May 2026| date=4 September 2024| url=https://thebaffler.com/salvos/live-free-or-dei-del-valle}}</ref>

According to Ali Breland in ''The Atlantic'', Lasker has "suggested that crime is genetic"<ref name="Breland"/> and has compiled [[race and intelligence]] charts, including on the Black-White IQ gap.<ref name="Breland"/> According to Jason Wilson in ''The Guardian'', Lasker supported the racialist research of [[Richard Lynn]].<ref name="Wilson 2025">{{cite news |last=Wilson|first=Jason|date=3 March 2025|title=US natalist conference to host race-science promoters and eugenicists|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/natal-conference-austin-texas-eugenics |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=22 July 2025}}</ref> His views on race and intelligence has been criticized by academics as an example of [[pseudoscience]] entering mainstream academia.<ref name="Standifer" /><ref name="Turkheimer 2022"/><ref name="az"/>

Lasker has also written about [[biohacking]] and experimental health interventions. Reporting in ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''[[The Atlantic]]'' discussed his 2025 post about low-cost access to [[GLP-1 receptor agonist]]s through online peptide sources, with ''The New York Times'' describing it as a viral [[do it yourself]] guide.<ref name="NYT-GLP1">{{cite news |last=Sun |first=Jasmine |date=3 January 2026 |title='Chinese Peptides' Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/business/chinese-peptides-silicon-valley.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=23 May 2026}}</ref><ref name="atlantic-GLP1">{{cite magazine |last=Zhang |first=Sarah |date=23 December 2025 |title=I Bought 'GLP-3' |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/12/retatrutide-underground-market/685400/ |magazine=[[The Atlantic]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260522133930/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/12/retatrutide-underground-market/685400/ |archive-date=22 May 2026 |access-date=23 May 2026}}</ref> In 2024, Lasker wrote about Lumina, a probiotic toothpaste containing genetically engineered bacteria; the ''San Francisco Standard'' reported that his essay endorsed the product and helped draw attention to it in Bay Area biohacking circles.<ref>{{cite news |last=Stone |first=Zara |date=22 February 2025 |title=I got my mouth on Silicon Valley's favorite new $250 toothpaste |url=https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/22/lumina-probiotic-cavity-bioengineered-toothpaste/ |work=The San Francisco Standard |access-date=21 May 2026}}</ref>

=== Internet personality ===

==== Crémieux Receuil ====

Lasker has the X account "Crémieux Recueil" on X. In July 2025 he had more than 260,000 followers.<ref name="Mother Jones">{{Cite web |author=Lanard, Noah |date=2025 |title=The Shocking Rise of One of the Tech Right's Favorite Posters |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/cremieux-jordan-lasker-mamdani-nyt-nazi-faliceer-reddit/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250813163303/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/cremieux-jordan-lasker-mamdani-nyt-nazi-faliceer-reddit/ |archive-date=13 August 2025 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-GB}}</ref> [[Elon Musk]] and U.S. Vice President [[JD Vance]] both follow him.<ref name="Lanard">{{Cite web|author=Lanard, Noah |date=2025|title=Elon Musk Keeps Boosting White Nationalists on X|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-x-racists-boosting-white-nationalists-south-africa-antisemitism-adl-springfield-doge-holocaust/|website=Mother Jones|language=en-GB|archive-date=10 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250210215750/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-x-racists-boosting-white-nationalists-south-africa-antisemitism-adl-springfield-doge-holocaust/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=Breland, Ali|date=2024|title='Race Science' Is Inching Its Way Across the American Right|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/08/race-science-far-right-charlie-kirk/679527/|website=The Atlantic|language=en-GB|archive-date=20 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820173451/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/08/race-science-far-right-charlie-kirk/679527/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=Walker, Hunter|date=2025|title=JD Vance's 'Neofascist' Reading List|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/jd-vance-neofascist-reading-list-235548677.html|website=Yahoo News|language=en-GB|archive-date=March 8, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250308010523/https://www.yahoo.com/news/jd-vance-neofascist-reading-list-235548677.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Liam Scott of the ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'' described Lasker as a "promoter of white supremacist views".<ref>{{Cite web|author=Scott, Liam|date=2025|title=Times Mamdani Article Using Hacked Documents from White Supremacist Draws Outcry|url=https://www.cjr.org/news/times-mamdani-college-application-race-article-hack.php|website=Columbia Journalism Review|language=en-GB|archive-date=5 July 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250705223620/https://www.cjr.org/news/times-mamdani-college-application-race-article-hack.php|url-status=live}}</ref>

Lasker has been introduced as "Crémieux Recueil" on podcasts where he was a guest.<ref name="Crémieux-on-FET"->{{Cite web| last=Murray| first=Cameron| title=FET #71: Crémieux on how bad science and fraud lead to bad policy| access-date=25 May 2026| date=17 May 2026| url=https://www.fresheconomicthinking.com/p/fet-71-cremieux-on-how-bad-science}}</ref>

==== Other online accounts ==== In 2025, an investigation by the magazine ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' found that between 2014 and 2016 an account on [[Reddit]] with the pseudonym Faliceer made posts that endorse "Nazism, eugenics, and racism", and self-identified as a "Jewish White Supremacist Nazi". ''Mother Jones'' linked this account to Lasker based on "highly specific biographical details that overlapped with Lasker's offline life", and a statement from Lasker's childhood friend that Lasker had used the "Faliceer" handle when playing video games.<ref name="Mother Jones"/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Phalen |first=Kyle |date=2026-04-13 |title=JD Vance follows fascists and antisemites on X |url=https://decoherence.media/jd-vance-follows-antisemites-on-x/ |access-date=2026-05-27 |website=Decoherence Media |language=en}}</ref> Lasker denies that the Faliceer account was operated by him.<ref>{{Cite tweet |number=2057654970388820271 |user=cremieuxrecueil |title=Trying something: I deny all the idiotic and obviously false identity claims about me that have populated my Wikipedia page. I'm not some random Black guy; I'm not all the random accounts journalists claim I am; I am not the cremieuxrecueil impersonators claim I am on other sites (i.e., people have taken the name and are impersonating this account on other sites/in some email services/etc.). I just have this account, the one associated gmail, and the Substack, plus a Luma. Nothing more, as far as I recall. |date=21 May 2026 |access-date=21 May 2026 |archive-url=https://megalodon.jp/2026-0522-1212-55/https://x.com:443/cremieuxrecueil/status/2057654970388820271 |archive-date=21 May 2026 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Speaker===

Early in 2025, Lasker was a speaker at the [[Natal Conference]].<ref name="Wilson 2025" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Eubank|first=Britny|date=28 March 2025|title='Nazis are not welcome in Austin' UT students to protest controversial on-campus conference|url=https://www.kvue.com/article/news/education/university-of-texas/natal-conference-ut-austin-campus-protest/269-26e25360-d2f7-4558-82e5-d2b7a6ef6e00|work=[[KVUE]]|location= |publisher= |access-date=22 July 2025}}</ref> Lasker has posted about falling birthrates, describing it as "the biggest problem of our time", in a post that Elon Musk commented on.<ref name="Wilson 2025" /> According to ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]'' "Lasker defends the theory, supported by Musk, that all countries will eventually collapse because not enough women are having children."<ref name="von-frauke">{{Cite web|author=Steffens, Von Frauke|date=2025|title=Was will das rechte Bündnis hinter Elon Musk?|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/buendnis-hinter-elon-musk-eugeniker-und-pronatalisten-praegen-ideologie-110372024.html|website=Faz.net|language=en-GB|archive-date=25 March 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250325144011/https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/elon-musk-und-rechte-ideologien-wie-nah-steht-er-den-eugenikern-110372024.html|url-status=live|quote=Musk teilte bei X auch mehrfach Posts von Cremieux, vom „Guardian“ enttarnt als Jordan Lasker. Lasker vertritt die von Musk unterstütze These, alle Länder stünden irgendwann vor dem Kollaps, da nicht genügend Frauen Kinder bekämen. Die Vertreter der „pronatalistischen“ Ideologie äußern in unterschiedlicher Deutlichkeit, dass es auch darum gehe, welche Gruppen sich fortpflanzten|trans-quote=Musk also shared several posts on X by Cremieux, identified by the Guardian as Jordan Lasker. Lasker defends 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".}}</ref>

== Views == === Race and intelligence === One of Lasker's common focuses is the intersection between race and intelligence.<ref name="benjamin-2025" />{{Reference page|page=1|quote=He is an academic who opposes affirmative action and writes often about I.Q. and race.}}<ref name="Wilson 2025" />{{Reference page|page=1|quote=Away from X, Cremieux runs a Substack also featuring posts on the supposed relationships between race and IQ}} He defends the claim that national IQs vary between country by as much as 40 IQ points, a thesis first proposed by Richard Lynn. These arguments have been discredited and scientific journals have retracted work based on Lynn's data.<ref name="Wilson 2025" /> His writings on this topic have been described as [[Scientific racism|race science]],<ref name="Breland" />{{Reference page|page=1|quote=He is also one of the internet’s most prominent boosters of race science}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Smart |first=Ashley |date=8 April 2026 |title=The Push for Artificial Inheritance |url=https://undark.org/2026/04/08/genetics-artificial-inheritance/ |access-date=25 May 2026 |website=Undark Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>{{Reference page|page=1|quote=Among the crowd was the controversial blogger and race science enthusiast known as Cremieux Recueil, multiple participants told Undark.}} and supporting racial hereditarianism.<ref name="Bird"/><ref name="pp">{{Cite journal |last=Giangrande |first=Evan J. |date=15 May 2026 |title=The Preprint Problem: Fringe, Genetically Informed Studies of Group Differences in Behavior Housed on Open Science Platforms |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-026-10260-6 |journal=Behavior Genetics |language=en |doi=10.1007/s10519-026-10260-6 |issn=1573-3297|pages=8|quote=Lasker was listed as affiliated with Texas Tech University, where he was apparently a graduate student (Standifer 2022). He is the individual behind Cremieux, an online profile with hundreds of thousands of followers that disseminates racial hereditarianism and eugenics (Breland 2025)|doi-access=free }}</ref> His work argues that black people are biologically or genetically predisposed to have lower intelligence than white people,<ref name="Breland"/>{{Reference page|page=1|quote=Lasker is best-known for compiling charts on the “Black-White IQ gap” and otherwise linking race to real-world outcomes. He seems convinced that any differences are the result of biology, and has shot down other possible explanations}}<ref name="cm"/>{{Reference page|page=1|quote=In August 2019, Dr. Pesta, Mr. Fuerst, Mr. Kirkegaard and Mr. Lasker produced an analysis of the Philadelphia data. Their paper — which appeared in Psych, an online journal that Dr. Pesta edited — had nothing to do with gender differences and brain size, the topic for which Dr. Pesta had initially obtained the data. Instead, it declared that among people of mixed race, those with greater European ancestry were more intelligent, and that genes were probably the reason.}}<ref name="lc">{{Cite web |last=Valle |first=Gaby Del |date=11 July 2025 |title=Why are liberals cozying up to race scientists? |url=https://www.theverge.com/policy/705387/liberals-race-scientists-cremieux-abundance-richard-hanania |access-date=25 May 2026 |website=The Verge |language=en-US}}</ref>{{Reference page|page=1|quote=It would be far more accurate to say Lasker writes that Black people are inherently and congenitally less intelligent than white people.}} while ''Mother Jones'' and ''Current Affairs'' say his posts imply black people are genetically inferior.<ref name="Lanard" />{{Reference page|page=1|quote=A typical post from the account claims that Black NFL players have lower IQs than white NFL players; other posts strongly imply that Black people are genetically inferior to whites.}}<ref name="rs">{{Cite web |last=Martin |first=Grady |date=7 July 2025 |title=Race Science: It’s Back |url=https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/race-science-its-back |access-date=25 May 2026 |website=Current Affairs |language=en|quote=Lasker is a self-described eugenicist and racist; his writing is centered on one argument: that white and Asian people are genetically superior to those of Black and Hispanic descent}}</ref>

=== Eugenics === According to ''[[The Guardian]]'', ''[[The Atlantic]], [[The Verge]], [[The Week]]'', ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'', and psychologist [[Evan Giangrande]], Lasker is a supporter of [[eugenics]].<ref name="Wilson 2025"/>{{Reference page|page=1|quote=One of the speakers at the conference is billed under a social media alias, Cremieux, but the Guardian has corroborated that the account is apparently run by Jordan Lasker, a long-time proponent of eugenics.}}<ref name="rs"/><ref name="lc"/>{{Reference page|page=1|quote=A quick Google search is all it takes to reveal that the person behind the Crémieux account is almost certainly Jordan Lasker, a lapsed academic and ardent advocate of eugenics.}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Krishnan |first=Manisha |title=Far-Right Influencers Are Hosting a $10K-per-Person Matchmaking Weekend to Repopulate the Earth |url=https://www.wired.com/story/natal-conference-matchmaking/ |access-date=25 May 2026 |work=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}</ref>{{Reference page|page=1|quote=Crémieux, an online pseudonym linked, according to The Guardian, to Jordan Lasker, who discusses falling birthrates and promotes eugenics}}<ref name="lm"/>{{Reference page|page=1|quote=The paper obtained the details through an unnamed intermediary described as someone who "opposes affirmative action and writes often about IQ and race," later identified as eugenicist Jordan Lasker}}<ref name="pp"/> In a letter to ''MIT Technology Review'', Lasker distanced himself from what he called the popular understanding of eugenics, saying that his views were not about "coercion and cutting people cast as ‘undesirable’ out of the breeding pool" and that what he supports "doesn’t qualify as eugenics by that popular understanding of the term."<ref name="MIT"> {{Cite journal |last=Black |first=Julia |date=2025 |title=Can you curate a perfect baby? |journal=MIT Technology Review |volume=128 |issue=6 |quote=In response to allegations that his research encourages eugenics, Lasker wrote to MIT Technology Review, “The popular understanding of eugenics is about coercion and cutting people cast as ‘undesirable’ out of the breeding pool. This is nothing like that, so it doesn’t qualify as eugenics by that popular understanding of the term.”}}</ref>

== Zohran Mamdani incident == 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, whose father [[Mahmood Mamdani]] is an African studies professor, and who is a member of the [[Indian diaspora]] born in Uganda, identified himself as both "Asian" and "Black or African American". He did not fill out the section of the form that would have allowed a custom entry and was not an American citizen at the time he filled out his application. The data was derived from a hack, and Lasker shared it with ''The New York Times'' as an intermediary. The incident resulted in significant backlash, particularly surrounding the Times' decision to grant Lasker anonymity.<ref name="benjamin-2025">{{cite news |last1=Ryan |first1=Benjamin |last2=Fandos |first2=Nicholas |last3=Rubinstein |first3=Dana |date=3 July 2025 |title=Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia-black-application.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=22 July 2025}}</ref><ref name="lm">{{cite news |last=Schwartz |first=Rafi |date=8 July 2025 |title=The New York Times plays defense after publishing leaked Mamdani college application details |url=https://theweek.com/politics/mamdani-new-york-times-columbia-application-african-american |work=[[The Week]] |access-date=22 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|accessdate=25 May 2026|title=The Times responds to Mamdani article outrage.|url=https://www.cjr.org/news/times-mamdani-college-application-race-article-hack.php|website=Columbia Journalism Review|date=5 July 2025|first=Liam|last=Scott}}</ref>

The hacker had used a pseudonym called the "Anime Nazi". ''The Verge'' reported that the alleged hacker said the university hacks were intended to test whether universities continued to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling in ''[[Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard]]'', and that the hacker said they redacted Social Security numbers and other identifying information before releasing data. A DataBreach.com executive told ''The Verge'' that redactions in the New York University data were imperfect. ''The Verge'' also reported that the hacker reposted a post from Crémieux calling them "the nicest possible hacker".<ref>{{Cite web |author=Lopatto, Elizabeth |date=2025 |title=This 'violently racist' hacker claims to be the source of The New York Times' Mamdani scoop |url=https://www.theverge.com/cyber-security/710480/columbia-hacker-nazi-nyt-affirmative-action |website=The Verge |language=en-GB |access-date=21 May 2026}}</ref>

==Selected publications== * {{Cite journal |last1=Kirkegaard |first1=Emil O. W. |last2=Lasker |first2=Jordan |last3=Kura |first3=Kenya |date=2019-04-24 |title=The Intelligence of Biracial Children of U.S. Servicemen in Northeast Asia: Results from Japan |journal=Psych |language=en |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=132–138 |doi= |doi-access= |issn=}} * {{Cite journal |last1=Lasker |first1=Jordan |last2=Pesta |first2=Bryan J. |last3=Fuerst |first3=John G. R. |last4=Kirkegaard |first4=Emil O. W. |date=30 August 2019 |title=Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability |journal=Psych |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=431–459 |doi= |doi-access=}} * {{Cite journal |last1=Kirkegaard |first1=Emil O. W. |last2=Lasker |first2=Jordan |date=2019-12-23 |title=Intelligence and Religiosity among Dating Site Users |journal=Psych |language=en |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=25–33 |doi= |doi-access= |issn=}} * {{Cite journal |last1=Pesta |first1=Bryan J. |last2=Kirkegaard |first2=Emil O. W. |last3=te Nijenhuis |first3=Jan |last4=Lasker |first4=Jordan |last5=Fuerst |first5=John G. R. |date=2020-01-01 |title=Racial and ethnic group differences in the heritability of intelligence: A systematic review and meta-analysis |journal=Intelligence |volume=78 |article-number=101408 |doi= |issn=}} * {{Cite journal |last=Lasker |first=Jordan |date=September 2024 |title=Measurement Invariance Testing Works |journal=Applied Psychological Measurement |language=en |volume=48 |issue=6 |pages=257–275 |doi=10.1177/01466216241261708 |issn=0146-6216 |pmc=11331746 |pmid=39166183}} * {{Cite journal |publisher=Nature Publishing Group| doi=10.1038/s41598-024-77904-7| issn=2045-2322 |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=26480 |last1=Svraka |first1=Bernadett |last2=Lasker |first2=Jordan |last3=Ujma |first3=Péter Przemyslaw |title=Cognitive, affective and sociological predictors of school performance in mathematics| journal=Scientific Reports |access-date=25 May 2026 |date=November 2024 |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-77904-7}}

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==External links== * [https://www.cremieux.xyz/archive Official website] * {{twitter|cremieuxrecueil}}

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