Jordan Lasker


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

Background

Lasker was a PhD student at Texas Tech University. He resides at Macon, Georgia.
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. 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.
Lasker uses the X account Crémieux Recueil named after the 19th-century French politician Adolphe Crémieux. In July 2025 he had more than 260,000 followers.

Career

Lasker has argued that crime is genetic and has compiled race and intelligence charts on X and Substack. Lasker is a hereditarian who has supported the racialist research of Richard Lynn.
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 Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes. 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. Pesta’s institution, Cleveland State University stated that Lasker had retained an unauthorized copy of the dataset. Pesta was later dismissed from his position at Cleveland State University.
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. The meta-analysis was denounced as a "racially motivated and poorly executed work" by psychologist Eric Turkheimer.
Lasker as Crémieux has posted comments on X implying that Black people are genetically inferior to whites. Elon Musk and U.S. Vice President JD Vance both follow Crémieux on X. Liam Scott of the Columbia Journalism Review described Lasker as a "promoter of white supremacist views".
He was a speaker at the 2024 Manifest conference. Eugenicist Jonathan Anomaly was also a speaker. Lasker has spoken out in favor of natalism. 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.

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, 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. 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.

Selected publications

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