Razib Khan
Razib Khan is a conservative atheist Bangladeshi-American writer and blogger who covers population genetics and consumer genomics.
Life and education
Khan was born in in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He grew up in Upstate New York and Eastern Oregon. He is an atheist despite his father being an imam.At the University of Oregon, he completed his Bachelor of Science in biochemistry in 2000, and completed his Bachelor of Science in biology in 2006. He began but did not complete a graduate program at the University of California at Davis. During the early 2000s Khan but received funding from Ron Unz, founder of the The Unz Review, and switched his focus to science.
Blogging and writing
He is most broadly known for his various webblogs, on Substack and his own blog, GNXP, short for Gene Expression.As a writer, Khan has contributed to the Guardian, the National Review, Slate, Taki's Magazine, and The Unz Review.
In March 2015, The [New York Times] announced that it had hired Khan on a short-term contract, and that he would write for them about once a month. The Times wrote he is "a science blogger and a doctoral candidate in genomics and genetics at the University of California, Davis. He writes about evolution, genetics, religion, politics and philosophy." In response, journalists documented Khan's contributions to the alt-right Taki's Magazine and VDARE, which included support for the belief that some races are biologically more intelligent than others. Following this, The New York Times removed him as a regular periodic contributor. The Times did not specifically mention the part of Khan's work they found uncomfortable, and he wrote two op-eds for the paper before they ended his contract.