Unmasking Crémieux Recueil

Popular anonymous race scientist "Crémieux Receuil" is actually a graduate student named Jordan Lasker

This article is an adapted version of my Twitter thread on the topic.

In August, The Atlantic ran a piece about the resurgence of race science on Twitter, including a discussion of Elon Musk's following of an anonymous account named "Crémieux Recueil". Crémieux Receuil is a big deal in tech circles on Twitter. Both Elon Musk and Garry Tan have subscriptions^[1] to him; Investor and former Coinbase CTO Balaji Snrivasan and Marc Andreessen of Andreessen-Horowitz also have both interacted with him on the platform.

The purpose of this article is to render his less anonymous by presenting evidence that he is a race scientist by the name of Jordan Lasker and explore his connections with the larger right-wing tech social media sphere.

Background

Crémieux is notable for writing an article called "Elites are genetically different" for a pro-eugenics Substack outlet named Aporia. Aporia's connections to white supremacists was recently explored in an excellent investigation by The Guardian^[2] and anti-racism researchers at Hope Not Hate, whose undercover reporter was told that an anonymous tech investor had invested in the project.

The Evidence

Allegations that Crémieux is Jordan Lasker have been floating around for a while, dating back to 2019^[3], but no one has compiled comprehensive evidence of it until now. Crémieux and Lasker share identical interests in race science, often referencing and interacting with the same groups of authors.

u/Tr*nnyPornO?

There's also been rumors floating around that Crémieux's old Reddit account name was "u/Tr*nnyPornO"^[4], with allegations that Crémieux, Lasker, and TPO are the same person dating back to a thread on 4chan's /sci/ board from 2019. A comment on the "Pumpkin Person" blog as well as a deleted comment on Reddit^[5] also allege the same.

The account is a mod on r/psychometrics, r/heredity, r/evopolitics/^[5:1], r/CrimeStudies, and r/decentralization. It has also posted on The Motte, a community founded as a political spinoff of Scott Alexander's Slate Star Codex blog^[6] that eventually migrated) to a standalone website in the face of a potential crackdown on far right content by Reddit's administrators.

Connections to other race scientists

Emil Kirkegaard

Emil Kirkegaard is a race scientist^[7] who's been featured in many articles about its resurgence, including a report from The Guardian revealing that his "Human Diversity Group" had managed to acquire access to a genetic databank in the UK. Kirkegaard has claimed that "pervasive stereotypes of Africans being prone to violence is good evidence of their actual behavior".

Kirkegaard is one of Jordan Lasker's most frequent collaborators, appearing as a co-author on 8 out of 18 papers on Lasker's Google Scholars page. Meanwhile, Kirkegaard and Crémieux seem to enjoy a close relationship, often interacting on both Twitter^[8] and Substack^[9].

On October 13, 2022 The Chronicle of Higher Education published a piece called "Racial Pseudoscience on the Faculty" about race science, focusing on paper called Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability co-authored by Emil Kirkegaard, Jordan Lasker, and John Pesta and the criticism they received from other scientists, who called one of their papers "an example of how racially motivated and poorly executed work can find its way into a mainstream scientific journal". None of the authors replied to requests for comment, making it clear why Lasker would want to keep his race science anonymous. Tr*nnypornO also posted about Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability in a Reddit thread about a possible "relationship between genetic admixture and intelligence".

On October 15, just 2 days after it dropped, Crémieux broke his 2 year hiatus from Medium to make one final post attacking The Chronicle's article. However, he only references the authors as "Pesta et al" without mentioning either Kirkegaard or Lasker by name.

Following this, Lasker's Substack and Crémieux's Medium pages stopped seeing activity and Crémieux would officially launch his own Substack just a few weeks later on October 29th.

International Society for Intelligence Research

As covered by New Statesman and The Independent, The International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) is a journal and conference that has repeated been accused of promoting and hosting eugenicists and white supremacists.

Tr*nnyPornO has cited ISIR on Reddit multiple times (1, 2, 3) while Crémieux mentioned a "forthcoming presentation" at ISIR in one of his Medium posts.

Jordan Lasker appeared at the conference in 2022 in the "psychometrics" section; Emil Kirkegaard was scheduled to give a talk too, but controversy around his appearance caused it to be canceled.

Arthur Jensen

"Jensen" mentioned in the previous post refers to Arthur Jensen, another IQ researcher infamous for his spearheading of scientific racism. Another Reddit comment from the account relentlessly attacked a paper written by University of Michigan professor Richard E. Nisbett critiquing an article written by Jensen and fellow race scientist Jean-Philippe Rushton.

Unsurprisingly, Crémieux has referenced Arthur Jensen's work numerous times: a 2022 Medium post cites his work with Jean-Philippe Rushton about racial gaps in standardized test performance and a Substack post from 2023 also references Jensen's work alongside Charles Murray's much-criticized book The Bell Curve.

Linda Gottfredson

both Cremieux and tr*nnypornO have referenced Linda Gottfredson in posts on Twitter and Reddit respectively (1 2, 3). Gottfredson is classified as a white supremacist by The Southern Poverty Law Center and was given a lifetime achievement award by ISIR.

Far Right Podcast appearances: The Jolly Heretic and Alex Kaschuta

Crémieux appeared on the The Jolly Heretic podcast titled Bad Science vs Based Science using a voice changer. The Jolly Heretic's Substack tagline is "Fed up with our woke joke universities? Learn based science with The Jolly Heretic".

Alongside Crémieux, the Heretic has featured Steve Sailer, a far-right writer who coined the term "human biodiversity". There are also two episodes dedicated to Kirkegaard, one of which was hosted on Bitchute before the Heretic moved to Substack. Crémieux also appeared on an episode of Subversive with Alex Kaschuta, a podcast about "ideas that may not fit neatly into the Overton window". Kaschuta describes him as being "let loose onto the world" by Elon Musk after he "lifted the ban on wrongthink" on Twitter (recall that Elon is personally subscribed to Crémieux). In the podcast, Crémieux discusses the possibility of demographic collapse and talks about how he became a Twitter celebrity - he claims to often DM scientists offering "corrections" or his own information to their tweets.

One of these scientists he "corrected" was Dr. Julia M. Roher, who mentioned in a blog post that Crémieux DMed her a paper by Jordan Lasker. I reached out to Dr. Roher who was kind enough to send me the full DM text, which simply reads "Someone wrote a preprint on this". It doesn't mention Lasker by name, which is consistent with Crémieux not drawing attention to his connection to Lasker.

Richard Hanania

Jordan Lasker has appeared on The Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, a Substack run by Richard Hanania, a writer who was previously exposed by The Huffington Post as having a blatantly racist alias under which he identified himself as a "race realist". Lasker authored a "report" attacking a study that was used to support some progressive policies. Lasker also appeared on CSPI's podcast to discuss his writing.

Meanwhile, on Twitter, Richard Hanania has continued to have many interactions with Crémieux's anonymous account. Like his interactions with Kirkegaard, these mentions started shortly after Crémieux signed up for Twitter, indicating that they probably knew each other from somewhere else. Hanania has praised one of Crémieux's earlier essays as something that "discredited all of science except one field" and will "shape everything" he reads in the future.

Stanford University's Classical Liberalism Initiative

Over the course of my research, it has come to my attention that Jordan Lasker was invited to give a talk titled"The Academic and Career Trajectories of Underqualified College Admits" at Stanford University's Classical Liberalism Initiative seminar series.^[10] . The series of talks, run by Iván Marinovic out of the School of Business whose goal is to invite professors to "debate ideas and policy issues with rigor, even when doing so may challenge orthodoxy".

Based on recent talk titles like "Race and the Origins of Wokism" and "From Hysteria to Gender Dysphoria: How Culture and Medicine Shape Mental Illness", the "orthodoxy" in question appears to be diversity and wokeness. Richard Hanania had previously been invited to give a talk, a decision Stanford would defend in light of the discovery of Hanania's past racist writings.

It's unclear how Jordan Lasker's work came to the attention of Mr. Marinovic, especially since he's not a faculty member and is only known for his race science work with Emil Kirkegaard under his own name. However, Mr. Marinovic has previously demonstrated an interest in prediction markets, a concept currently in vogue within certain AI and tech circles. The prediction market startup Manifold recently came under scrunity for inviting people associated with race science and eugenics to its yearly "Manifest" conference. In 2024, this list of invitees included Richard Hanania, Razib Khan, Steve Hsu, Simone & Malcolm Collins, and Jonathan Anomaly, who gave a talk titled "Genetic Enhancement: Prediction Markets for Future People". Based on information from multiple sources, I can confirm that Jordan Lasker was also present and that he was invited under his Crémieux alias.

PolygenX?

Jonathan Anomaly's presence at Manifest is notable because he has publicly advocated for eugenics and because an undercover investigation by anti-racist researchers at Hope Not Hate delved into his connection to a genomics firm called PolygenX. Hope Not Hate's investigation found that Anomaly had bragged that Elon Musk had praised PolygenX during a meeting with him in Austin, TX. According to an anonymous source, Jordan Lasker has also been working a genetics related firm in Austin, Texas and has similarly bragged of his proximity to Musk.

The investigation revealed that Simone and Malcolm Collins are also involved with PolygenX. An episode of their Based Camp podcast from December 2024 was centered around Crémieux work and referred to him as their "friend" and a "guy we quite like". PolygenX's Chief Science Officer Tobias Wolfram's work (in preprint form) has been praised by Crémieux, both of whom were later cited on by Steve Sailor in the Unz Review.

Warp Payroll madness!

In a bizarre twist, Crémieux recently got involved in a separate racism scandal that unfolded this September. In May, Crémieux tweeted that he's now associated with a payroll startup called Warp that recently raised $5.7m of funding, including both Garry Tan's YCombinator and Balaji Srinavasan.

Both investors have been criticized for their far right political leanings. Srinavasan has called for a form of right-wing "tech Zionism" that "ethnically cleanses" Democrats from San Francisco while Andreessen published a manifesto which praised FT Marinetti, one of the architects of Italian Fascism, as a "saint".

Throughout 2024, Warp's twitter account began posting almost exclusively memes and gave "affiliate" status to many accounts associated with the technocratic effective accelerationism^[11] ("e/acc") movement. For example, affiliates included an e/acc who replied to a tweet from Crémieux in support colonizing Africa and an account named "Feral Pawg Hunter" that jokingly celebrated being mutual followers with people who are into race science.

Later, Warp would get in hot water over their affiliates' behavior and would remove the badges from most accounts while admitting that they were not in fact employees^[11:1]. However, as of this writing, Crémieux is still one of only 22 Twitter accounts that Warp currently follows.

Given all of the fact, I think the evidence is overwhelming that Jordan Lasker, Crémieux Receuil, and "Tr*nnyPornO" are the same person. On a personal note, I take great satisfaction as an African trans woman in exposing a racist chaser.

Special thanks to Nick Rodelo, David Gerard, and several anonymous contributors for their help with research and editing.

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