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Jordan Lasker

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Jordan Lasker
Born
Other namesCrémieux Recueil
🏳️ CitizenshipAmerican
🎓 Alma materTexas Tech University (PhD student)
💼 Occupation
Internet personality; researcher
Known forWriting about IQ and race,[1][2][3] psychometrics, GLP-1 receptor agonists[4][5]

Jordan Lasker (also known on social media as Crémieux Recueil) is an American internet personality and researcher. His academic work includes psychometrics, measurement invariance, mathematics achievement, and race and intelligence. He has been associated with natalism.[2][6] On X and Substack, Lasker is known for writing about IQ and race,[1][2][3] compiling charts on what he calls the "Black-White IQ gap",[1] and discussing GLP-1 receptor agonists.[4][5] His research on race and intelligence has been criticized by academics as an example of pseudoscience entering mainstream academia.[7][8][9]

Background

Lasker was a PhD student at Texas Tech University.[7]

Lasker uses the X account Crémieux Recueil named after the 19th-century French politician Adolphe Crémieux.[10] In July 2025 he had more than 260,000 followers.[10]

In 2025, an investigation by the 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". 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.[10] Lasker denies that the Faliceer account was operated by him.[11] In 2016, the account Faliceer self-identified as a "Jewish White Supremacist Nazi". Faliceer also wished Adolf Hitler a happy birthday, promoted eugenics and attacked interracial relationships.[10]

Career

Academic research

Lasker has published on psychometrics and measurement. In 2022, with John D. Haltigan and George B. Richardson, he published "Measurement Issues in Tests of the Socioecological Complexity Hypothesis", which argued that existing tests of the socioecological complexity hypothesis had unresolved measurement problems.[12] In 2024, he published "Measurement Invariance Testing Works" in Applied Psychological Measurement, using five experiments to argue that measurement invariance testing can detect whether the same psychological constructs are being measured across groups.[13]

In 2024, Lasker co-authored "Cognitive, affective and sociological predictors of school performance in mathematics" with Bernadett Svraka and Péter Przemyslaw Ujma. The paper examined intelligence, specific mathematical ability, family socioeconomic status, and mathematics anxiety as predictors of mathematics grades in Hungarian schoolchildren, and found that intelligence was the strongest predictor while mathematics anxiety added a smaller independent contribution.[14]

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.[7] 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.[7] Pesta’s institution, Cleveland State University stated that a coauthor of Lasker, John Fuerst, had retained an unauthorized copy of the dataset.[15] Pesta was later dismissed from his position at Cleveland State University.[2]

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.[8] The paper reported moderate to high intelligence heritability estimates for White, Black, and Hispanic groups in the United States, and found that the estimates did not substantially differ across those groups.[16] Psychologist Eric Turkheimer denounced the meta-analysis as a "racially motivated and poorly executed work".[8] In 2023, Pesta, te Nijenhuis, Lasker, Kirkegaard, and Fuerst published a reply in Intelligence disputing Giangrande and Turkheimer's critique, saying that it contained conceptual, theoretical, methodological, statistical, and interpretive errors.[17]

Writing

According to Ali Breland in The Atlantic, Lasker has suggested that crime is genetic and has compiled race and intelligence charts on X and Substack, including on the Black-White IQ gap.[1] According to Jason Wilson in The Guardian, Lasker has recounted the racialist research of Richard Lynn.[2] His research on race and intelligence has been criticized by academics as an example of pseudoscience entering mainstream academia.[7][8][9]

Lasker has written about medicine, biotechnology, education, and public policy. In UnHerd, he criticized Italy's criminalization of surrogacy, arguing that evidence of harm from same-sex parenting is weak and that regulated surrogacy can be a pro-family arrangement among consenting adults.[18] In another UnHerd article, he criticized claims by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. linking prenatal acetaminophen use to autism, arguing that the claims confused correlation with causation and gave insufficient weight to sibling-control studies.[19]

In Palladium, Lasker attributed Romania's performance in international academic olympiads to a stratified educational system that sorts students and teachers into competitive schools and provides incentives for olympiad performance.[20]

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 agonists through online peptide sources, with The New York Times describing it as a viral do-it-yourself guide.[4][5] 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.[21]

Elon Musk and U.S. Vice President JD Vance both follow Lasker (as Crémieux) on X.[22][23][24] Liam Scott of the Columbia Journalism Review described Lasker as a "promoter of white supremacist views".[25]

Conferences and talks

In March 2024, Lasker gave a Stanford Classical Liberalism Initiative seminar titled "The Academic and Career Trajectories of Underqualified College Admits".[26] He was a speaker at the 2024 Manifest conference.[2] The 2025 Manifest website listed Crémieux among notable guests.[27] In 2026, Crémieux was listed on the Vitalist Bay program for a session titled "Fireside x Peptides" and a talk titled "Why is China Winning in Clinical Trials".[28]

Early in 2025, Lasker was a speaker at the Natal Conference.[2][29] Lasker has posted about falling birthrates, describing it as "the biggest problem of our time", in a post that Elon Musk commented on.[2] According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "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."[6] Lasker denies supporting this theory.[30]

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 resulting report generated controversy for both Mamdani and The New York Times.[3][31]

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".[32]

Selected publications

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Kirkegaard, Emil O. W.; Lasker, Jordan (2019-12-23). "Intelligence and Religiosity among Dating Site Users". Psych. 2 (1): 25–33.
  • 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. Unknown parameter |article-number= ignored (help)
  • Lasker, Jordan (September 2024). "Measurement Invariance Testing Works". Applied Psychological Measurement. 48 (6): 257–275. doi:10.1177/01466216241261708. ISSN 0146-6216. PMC 11331746 Check |pmc= value (help). PMID 39166183 Check |pmid= value (help).

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Breland, Ali (9 July 2025). "A Race-Science Blogger Goes Mainstream". The Atlantic. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Wilson, Jason (3 March 2025). "US natalist conference to host race-science promoters and eugenicists". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ryan, Benjamin; Fandos, Nicholas; Rubinstein, Dana (3 July 2025). "Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sun, Jasmine (3 January 2026). "'Chinese Peptides' Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 May 2026.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Zhang, Sarah (23 December 2025). "I Bought 'GLP-3'". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on May 22, 2026. Retrieved 23 May 2026.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Steffens, Von Frauke (2025). "Was will das rechte Bündnis hinter Elon Musk?". Faz.net. Archived from the original on 25 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". Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Standifer, Cid (13 October 2022). "Racial Pseudoscience on the Faculty". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 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 Check |pmid= value (help).
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  11. ↑ @cremieuxrecueil (21 May 2026). "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" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 21 May 2026. Retrieved 21 May 2026 – via Twitter.
  12. ↑ Lasker, Jordan; Haltigan, John D.; Richardson, George B. (2022). "Measurement Issues in Tests of the Socioecological Complexity Hypothesis". Evolutionary Psychological Science. 8: 1–12. doi:10.1007/s40806-021-00301-0.
  13. ↑ Lasker, Jordan (September 2024). "Measurement Invariance Testing Works". Applied Psychological Measurement. 48 (6): 257–275. doi:10.1177/01466216241261708. ISSN 0146-6216. PMC 11331746 Check |pmc= value (help). PMID 39166183 Check |pmid= value (help).
  14. ↑ 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 Check |pmc= value (help). PMID 39489790 Check |pmid= value (help).
  15. ↑ Bird, Kevin A; Carlson, Jedidiah (2024). "Typological thinking in human genomics research contributes to the production and prominence of scientific racism". Front. Genet. 15. doi:10.3389/fgene.2024.1345631. PMC 10910073 Check |pmc= value (help). PMID 38440191 Check |pmid= value (help). Unknown parameter |article-number= ignored (help)
  16. ↑ 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. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2019.101408. ISSN 0160-2896. Unknown parameter |article-number= ignored (help)
  17. ↑ Pesta, Bryan J.; te Nijenhuis, Jan; Lasker, Jordan; Kirkegaard, Emil O. W.; Fuerst, John G. R. (2023). "On group differences in the heritability of intelligence: A reply to Giangrande and Turkheimer (2022)". Intelligence. 98. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2023.101737. Retrieved 20 May 2026. Unknown parameter |article-number= ignored (help)
  18. ↑ Cremieux Recueil (20 October 2024). "Italy's surrogacy ban undermines family values". UnHerd. Retrieved 21 May 2026.
  19. ↑ Cremieux Recueil (23 September 2025). "RFK's autism report twists correlation into causation". UnHerd. Retrieved 21 May 2026.
  20. ↑ Lasker, Jordan (29 August 2025). "Why Romania Excels in International Olympiads". Palladium. Retrieved 21 May 2026.
  21. ↑ Stone, Zara (22 February 2025). "I got my mouth on Silicon Valley's favorite new $250 toothpaste". The San Francisco Standard. Retrieved 21 May 2026.
  22. ↑ Lanard, Noah (2025). "Elon Musk Keeps Boosting White Nationalists on X". Mother Jones. Archived from the original on February 10, 2025. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  23. ↑ Breland, Ali (2024). "'Race Science' Is Inching Its Way Across the American Right". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on August 20, 2024. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  24. ↑ Walker, Hunter (2025). "JD Vance's 'Neofascist' Reading List". Yahoo News. Archived from the original on March 8, 2025. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  25. ↑ Scott, Liam (2025). "Times Mamdani Article Using Hacked Documents from White Supremacist Draws Outcry". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on July 5, 2025. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  26. ↑ "Seminars". Classical Liberalism Initiative. Stanford University. Retrieved 21 May 2026.
  27. ↑ "Manifest 2025". Manifest. Retrieved 21 May 2026.
  28. ↑ "Vitalist Bay". Vitalist Bay. Retrieved 21 May 2026.
  29. ↑ Eubank, Britny (28 March 2025). "'Nazis are not welcome in Austin' UT students to protest controversial on-campus conference". KVUE. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  30. ↑ Lasker, Jordan (May 22, 2026). "Talk:Jordan Lasker". Wikipedia. Retrieved May 22, 2026. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung quote is also based on literally nothing. I deny it. I would never advocate any theory that does not make sense.
  31. ↑ Schwartz, Rafi (8 July 2025). "The New York Times plays defense after publishing leaked Mamdani college application details". The Week. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  32. ↑ Lopatto, Elizabeth (2025). "This 'violently racist' hacker claims to be the source of The New York Times' Mamdani scoop". The Verge. Retrieved 21 May 2026.


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