Guardian: Steven Pinker Is Guilty of Guilt by Association with Guilty Racists
Jason Wilson is back to expose further the nefarious Global Race Science Conspiracy.
Recently, Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker appeared on the Aporia Magazine podcast to discuss artificial intelligence with Noah Carl:
The Guardian news section finds that to be an international scandal:
Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism
Psychologist and writer’s appearance on Aporia condemned for helping to normalise ‘dangerous, discredited ideas’
Jason Wilson
Sat 7 Jun 2025 08.00 EDT
The Harvard psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker appeared on the podcast of Aporia, an outlet whose owners advocate for a revival of race science and have spoken of seeking “legitimation by association” by platforming more mainstream figures.
The appearance underlines past incidents in which Pinker has encountered criticism for his association with advocates of so-called “human biodiversity”, which other academics have called a “rebranding” of racial genetic essentialism and scientific racism.
Pinker’s appearance marks another milestone in the efforts of many in Silicon Valley and rightwing media and at the fringes of science to rehabilitate previously discredited models of a biologically determined racial hierarchy.
Patrik Hermansson, a researcher at UK anti-racism non-profit Hope Not Hate, said that Pinker’s “decision to appear on Aporia, a far-right platform for scientific racism, provides an invaluable service to an extremist outlet by legitimising its content and attracting new followers”.
He added: “By lending his Harvard credentials to Aporia, Pinker contributes to the normalisation and spread of dangerous, discredited ideas.” …
In the hour-long recording published this week, Pinker engaged in a wide-ranging discussion about economic progress, artificial intelligence and social policy with host Noah Carl.
During the podcast, Pinker expressed agreement with claims made by Charles Murray, the author of The Bell Curve, a prominent figure in the “human biodiversity” movement that seeks to promote race-based theories of intelligence, and like Pinker a one-time participant in a human biodiversity email list convened by Steve Sailer.
Paywall here.
The link goes to a 2003 piece by Heidi Beirich of junk mail genius Morris Dees’ Southern Poverty Law Center money machine. Way back in 2003, Morris figured out that World War T (for transgender) was going to be a coming thing and that somebody would make a lot of money off it, so why not his SPLC?
So the SPLC set off on a jihad 22 years ago to take down anybody, such as Steven Pinker and myself, who helped the distinguished Northwestern U. psychologist J. Michael Bailey promote his popular science book about transgenderism, The Man Who Would Be Queen. Bailey’s big thought crime was to spill the beans about U. of Toronto psychologist Ray Blanchard’s discovery of the autogynephilia fetish. (You can read about it in Alice Dreger’s book Galileo’s Middle Finger.)
But one problem with being a money-making genius like Morris is that you can get too far ahead of your own time. If Morris had delayed a decade until 2013, the SPLC could have led the Transmania of the Great Awokening. But in 2003, few of Morris’s nice liberal donors could figure out why the SPLC was suddenly so worked up over men in dresses. Hence, Morris’s campaign fizzled.
But Heidi remained really peeved over my transgressions, such as my gently pointing out during the peak of the Steroid Era that top woman golfer Annika Sörenstam had suddenly added massive musculature and started pounding her drives over the horizon, suddenly emerging as the Barry Bonds of the Ladies Professional Golf Association.
When Carl cited “evidence collected by sociologists like Charles Murray suggesting that part of the family breakdown in some communities in America seems to be attributable to the state taking over the traditional function of the father”, Pinker responded: “I think that is a problem.” He added: “It is a huge class-differentiated phenomenon, as Murray and others write it out.”
Reporting last October in the Guardian revealed that Aporia operates within a broader network of groups and individuals seeking to mainstream racial pseudoscience.
The initiative had been secretly funded by US tech entrepreneur Andrew Conru
Who? Where’s my Conru Bux?!?
Why am I in my closet 11 hours per day churning out Substack poasts when I could be cashing by Global Race Science Conspiracy checks?
… Pinker is world famous as the author of bestselling books including The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now.
Here are my book reviews of the former and the latter.
His work has emphasized themes including universal human cognitive abilities and the decline of violence over time, and has previously advocated for “colorblind equality”.
His appearance on Aporia, however, follows a recent pattern of controversy around his connections to figures promoting eugenics and scientific racism, including Steve Sailer. Pinker included a Sailer essay in a collection of American science writing.
My January 2003 article in The American Conservative, “Cousin Marriage Conundrum,” which is featured in my anthology Noticing (available today in audio book format narrated by me) about how George W. Bush’s plan to invade and transform Iraq was doomed by the clannishness underpinned by Iraq’s high rate of cousin marriage, is definitely one of my all-time best.
According to science writer Angela Saini’s Superior, a history of the revival of race science,
Here’s my review of Fleet Street hack Saini’s book, including her hilariously deflating interview with superstar Harvard geneticist David Reich.
Pinker was in turn an early participant in Sailer’s Human Biodiversity email discussion group. His ties to Sailer drew criticism from other writers including Malcolm Gladwell.
Here’s my summary of the Gladwell vs. Pinker Igon Value fiasco that permanently lowered Gladwell’s previously excessive reputation.
The Guardian has previously reported on the recent revival of Sailer, a “white supremacist” and a “proponent of scientific racism”, by the far-right publisher Passage Press.
Speaking of my revival, the 17 hour and 33 minute audio version, narrated by me, of my anthology Noticing came out today, just in time for Father’s Day gift-giving, on Amazon/Audible and on Apple Audio Books.
A 2021 academic study led by UCLA academics identified Pinker as one of the “political centrists” who have “played a role in legitimizing the ideas of the human biodiversity movement” in a way that has benefited white nationalists, despite not being core proponents themselves.
Hermannson, the Hope Not Hate researcher, said: “Considering the coverage Aporia has received and its long list of racist contributors, it’s hard for Pinker to argue he engaged with it unknowingly.”
So that you can have proof of what a hate-filled, spittle-emitting extremist I am, here are my new videos on IQ and race:
Know I'm stating the obvious but the spiteful Guardian mutant failed to list a single shred of evidence against anything you have ever said in his inane article. All he did was cite (and I use this term as lightly as possible) "experts" who resorted to emotional fact-free namecalling and screaming "HERETC!!!".
Thanks Steve for your efforts over the last 30? years. The realization of the true nature of racial differences will not be mainstream in my lifetime (I’m a healthy 73) but maybe in my kids’.
Your gentle, persistent efforts to present facts in a logical way is whittling away the stupidity of the current “good” mainstream. The tide is turning.