Back in December 2025, when we talked about the book The Bell Curve, we kept running into the Human Diversity Foundation. This organization, which disseminates bunk pseudo-science through its journal Mankind Quarterly and its blog Aporia, has long been dedicated to advancing the white nationalist cause. This week, two news stories broke—one fairly minor and silly, the other devastating and tragic—that find a common thread in HDF, so Josh and June decided to finally do a full episode about this organization and its key figures.

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EPISODE ART: Nathan Cofnas, a proponent of so-called scientific racism who was recently suspended from his doctoral program at Ghent University in Belgium. Cofnas, who is frequently cited in HDF publications and has appeared on their podcast numerous times, published an article to his blog alleging that recently appointed Cambridge professor Jason Arday, who was a black man, plagiarized his PhD dissertation. Though an investigation cleared Arday of the charges, the story gained overwhelming coverage in the British media. Arday was found dead on August 14.

SOURCES:

• “Race Science Inc.” by Harry Shukman & Patrik Hermansson (Hope Not Hate, October 16, 2024)
• “The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday” by Nafeez Ahmed (Byline Times, August 18, 2026)
• “Academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism suspended by university” by Maia Davies (BBC, August 20, 2026)
• “A statement in support of Nathan Cofnas's Right to Academic Freedom of Expression” (online petition)
• Slutcon website
• Summary of Slutcon events from their Substack
• “Three Reasons Possession Of Child Porn Must Be Re-Legalized In The Coming Decade” by Rick Falkvinge (note comments on bottom by Emil Kirkegaard)
• Summary of Emil Kirkegaard libel litigation from 2019
• “DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge” by Nathan Cofnas
• Emil Kirkegaard buys Aella a bed on Amazon
• Aella with Diana Fleischman’s baby
• “The Beats: Decadence and Disease” by Simon Maass
• “Why does success run in families?” by Noah Carl
• “Adding genetic interests to utilitarianism” by Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
• “Ideas Have Consequences” by Bo Winegard

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