Jordan Lasker

Career Researcher Lasker is known for supporting the view that there is a genetic relationship between IQ and race, a position that is rejected by mainstream science.

In 2019, Lasker co-authored a paper "Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability" with Bryan Pesta, John G. R. Fuerst, and Emil Kirkegaard, which cited data from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes; it was referred to as "racial hereditarian research" by a 2024 paper. An investigation later found that the 2019 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.

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. Psychologist Eric Turkheimer described the publication as a "racially motivated and poorly executed work".

According to Ali Breland in The Atlantic, Lasker has "suggested that crime is genetic" His views on race and intelligence has been criticized by academics as an example of pseudoscience entering mainstream academia. 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.

Internet personality

Crémieux Receuil

Lasker is known as "Crémieux Recueil" on X. In July 2025 he had more than 260,000 followers. Elon Musk and U.S. Vice President JD Vance both follow him. Liam Scott of the Columbia Journalism Review described Lasker as a "promoter of white supremacist views".

Lasker has been introduced as "Crémieux Recueil" on podcasts where he was a guest.

Other online accounts 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", and self-identified as a "Jewish White Supremacist Nazi". 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.

Speaker

Early in 2025, Lasker was a speaker at the Natal Conference. Lasker has posted about falling birthrates, describing it as "the biggest problem of our time", in a post that Elon Musk commented on.

Views Race and intelligence One of Lasker's common focuses is the intersection between race and intelligence. and supporting racial hereditarianism. His work argues that black people are biologically or genetically predisposed to have lower intelligence than white people, while Mother Jones and Current Affairs say his posts imply black people are genetically inferior.

Eugenics According to The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Verge, The Week, Wired, and psychologist Evan Giangrande, Lasker is a supporter of eugenics.

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 incident resulted in significant backlash, particularly surrounding the Times' decision to grant Lasker anonymity.

The Verge reported that the hacker, who describes themself as "violently racist" and whose pseudonym is "a racial slur", 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. The Verge also reported that Lasker follows the hacker on social media, and the hacker reposted a post from Crémieux calling them "the nicest possible hacker".

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