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The Human Biodiversity Institute (HBI) refers to a far-right group of scientists, academics, and others associated with pseudoscientific race theories and neo-eugenics.^[1]^[2]^[3] Founded by Steve Sailer in the late 1990s, the theories were given the euphemism human biodiversity. Ideas that originated in the group, presently believed to be dormant, have since entered general alt-right discourse.

Origins

The Human Biodiversity Institute was founded by Steve Sailer, a journalist who has written for VDARE, an American far-right political website.^[4]^[5] Sailer has held numerous explicitly racist views.^[1] He has bemoaned a perceived lack of white identity politics, and has blamed this on a Jewish conspiracy.^[1] The Southern Poverty Law Center has described Sailer as a white supremacist.^[6] Sailer began using the term "human biodiversity" in the mid-1990s.^[1] The Human Biodiversity Institute was run by Steve Sailer as a think tank in the late 1990s through the 2000s.^[7]

Themes

The framing of human biodiversity discourse is meant to confer upon the movement scientific authority, and present it as empirical and rational.^[1]^[8] On this basis, advocates of this idea wish to advance social policies based on their observations.^[1]^[8] In a study on white nationalism, the authors describe human biodiversity as a movement to "catalog and create hereditarian ideas" about racial differences, and to then distribute them as red pills to transform online discourse.^[9] Human biodiversity materials are used by alt-right proponents to make arguments on 4chan, Reddit, and Twitter.^[9] Some proponents promote it in the alt-right blogosphere.^[1]^[9]

The human biodiversity movement refers to a set of ideas about scientific racism that formed in the 1990s.^[10]^[11]^[12] Sailer developed a concept of "ethnic nepotism", favoring members of one's own group.^[13] Sailer took this as a biological imperative that necessitates "ethnocentrism, clannishness, xenophobia, nationalism, and racism", when applied to the scale of an entire society for "ethnic nepotism".^[13]

The Southern Poverty Law Center has also associated the Human Biodiversity Institute with neo-eugenics.^[4]^[14] In 1999, the Human Biodiversity Institute presented a seminar advocating for genetically modified humans.^[15] The seminar was held at the Hudson Institute and was attended by Margaret Thatcher.^[15]^[16]

Influence

Between 2007 and 2014, terminology used by Stormfront for scientific racism changed from "racialism" and "race realism", to "human biodiversity".^[17]

The Southern Poverty Law Center has associated human biodiversity with the alt-right and white nationalism.^[18]^[19] The Anti-Defamation League has associated human biodiversity with the alt-right and white supremacy.^[20] An April 2017 article in New York Magazine described the movement as a "mainstay" of the alt-right.^[21]

Human biodiversity was one of the main publishing subjects of Washington Summit Publishers, a white nationalist publishing company run by Richard B. Spencer.^[22] Quillette has also published work supporting human biodiversity, leading to accusations of pseudoscience and eugenics.^[23]^[2] Contributors who have written on the topic of human biodivesity for Quillette include Ben Winegard, Bo Winegard, Brian Boutwell, and John Paul Wright.^[2]

Human biodiversity has been promoted by Milo Yiannopoulos.^[8]^[24] It has also been promoted by Stefan Molyneux.^[1] and influenced Stephen Miller, political advisor to Donald Trump.^[9] It also influenced Dominic Cummings, political advisor to Boris Johnson.^[9]

Membership

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the members of the Human Biodiversity Institute consisted mainly of journalists, academics, and scientists who discussed "differences in race, sex and sexual orientation".^[4] By summer 1999, the group consisted of dozens of well-known figures from a variety of different fields.^[25] Members of the Human Biodiversity Institute communicated primarily via an invitation-only electronic mailing list.^[26] This mailing list was called the Human Biodiversity Discussion Group.^[25] In the early history of the mailing list, Sailer published a roster of members on his website.^[27]

In 2003, known members of Human Biodiversity Institute included J. Philippe Rushton, Charles Murray, Kevin MacDonald, Gregory Cochran, J. Michael Bailey, and Ray Blanchard.^[4] The HBI also included several journalists who worked to popularize the theories and books of HBI members.^[4]

Steven Pinker was an early member of the Human Biodiversity Discussion Group.^[25] Pinker also published work by Steve Sailer in 2004, and quoted Sailer on his website.^[28] In 2009, Malcolm Gladwell brought attention to Pinker's ties to Steve Sailer, and Sailer's views on race and intelligence, after Pinker cited Sailer.^[28]^[29] According to a 2021 study on white nationalism by Panofsky et al., political centrists such as Steven Pinker have played a role in legitimizing the ideas of the human biodiversity movement.^[9]

The electronic mailing list eventually went defunct, and discourse moved on to right-wing blogs, in which members started writing about subjects such as race, genetics, and intelligence.^[25]

Views

Human races

Human biodiversity discourse presumes that different human races have inherently different physical and mental capabilities.^[24] Charles Murray, a member of the Human Biodiversity Institute, was a writer of the 1994 book, The Bell Curve, which argued that African Americans were less intelligent than white Americans.^[25] The book argued that innate biological differences made racial equity impossible. They instead advocated for different roles for each race in society.^[25] Steve Sailer advocated for similar ideas, espousing different strengths for different races and ethnic groups, and advocating against affirmative action.^[25] Marantz describes how this idea combines with ideas about white supremacy:^[24]

"HBD" stood for human biodiversity—a phrase that had gone viral within the alt-right blogosphere, largely owing to Sailer's repeated use of it. Human biodiversity: the hypothesis that people are different, that they differ in predictable ways, and that some groups of people—some races, for example—have drawn stronger cards in the genetic lottery. On Sailer's blog, most discussions of human biodiversity ended up returning to one specific, enduring idea: that white people are inherently smarter than black people.

Advocates of human biodiversity may attempt to portray their views of scientific racism as being completely objective.^[1] They may then express sadness about the "reality" of differences in racial intelligence, and the implications of those differences:^[1]

One common trait amongst HBD acolytes within the alt-right is a sometimes genuine, though feigned, reluctance to accept the "truth" of racial intelligence difference based on genes. Many couch their advocacy for HBD in a faux-sadness and argue that, thought they wish it were not true, the evidence was just too overwhelming. The genuineness of this varies between individuals but often their wider politics and previous statements indicate a predisposition to agreeing with racist pseudoscience.

Homosexuality

In an August 2003 article, the founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute, Steve Sailer, characterized homosexuality as a "disease" that may be eliminated by parents in the future.^[4] HBI member Gregory Cochran has theorized that homosexuality may be caused by a gay germ.^[30] In 2008, J. Michael Bailey, another HBI member, was questioned by bioethicist Alice Dreger on whether he also viewed homosexuality as a "disease" that could be eradicated.^[26] Bailey denied that his 2001 paper, "Parental Selection of Children's Sexual Orientation", advocated for eliminating homosexuality, as he noted "[H]omosexuality, like heterosexuality, is ethically neutral."^[26] However, he did say that it would be morally acceptable, assuming means morally unproblematic in themselves, for parents to genetically select heterosexuality over homosexuality for their own children:^[26]

Bailey has insisted that, in this paper, he and Greenberg simply argued one thing: that parental rights could reasonably be understood to include genetic selection against—or for—a theoretic "gay gene" in the same way that parental rights are reasonably understood to include the right to raise children in parents' religions. A close reading of the paper certainly seems to bear out Bailey’s claims about it.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Steve Sailer has portrayed homosexuality as something that might possibly be "cured", following Gregory Cochran's theories, and has also expressed a lack of concern about the ethics or morality of whether people would "cure" homosexuality.^[7]

Transgender people

The Southern Poverty Law Center has noted that many of the early supporters of J. Michael Bailey's book, The Man Who Would Be Queen, were members of the Human Biodiversity Institute.^[4] Ray Blanchard, the originator of the theory about transgender women promoted in the book, is also associated with the Human Biodiversity Institute.^[4] The book advances the theory by Blanchard that female-attracted transgender women are men with abnormal paraphilias or sexual orientations (e.g. autogynephilia). In March 2003, Steve Sailer wrote that he was sent a pre-release copy of The Man Who Would Be Queen.^[31]

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Blanchard's autogynephilia theory has since been promoted by anti-LGBT hate groups.^[32]^[33] These include Family Research Council (FRC), and the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds).^[32]^[33] In a May 2018 report, the Southern Poverty Law Center referred to Ray Blanchard as an anti-trans psychologist.^[33]

According to a 2020 study reflecting on articles from Bailey and Blanchard, "Bailey and Blanchard's work has long been criticised for perpetuating stereotypes and prejudices against trans women, notably suggesting that LGBQ trans women's primary motivation for transitioning is sexual arousal."^[34] The study refers to Blanchard's theory of autogynephilia as a discredited theory.^[34]

Wikipedia

In a review of far-right editing on Wikipedia, the Southern Poverty Law Center highlighted human biodiversity as one set of views that may be promoted by far-right editors:

Users who fall into this category include racialist academics and members of the human biodiversity, or HBD, blogging community. Often these are single-purpose accounts that exclusively edit on topics like race and intelligence, racial classification and bios of related researchers, like Linda Gottfredson or Helmuth Nyborg.
— Justin Ward, Wikipedia wars: inside the fight against far-right editors, vandals and sock puppets, Hopewatch, SPLC (2018)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Hermansson, Patrik; Lawrence, David; Mulhall, Joe; Murdoch, Simon (2020). "For Whom the Bell Curves: The alt-right and pseudoscientific racism". The International Alt-Right: Fascism for the 21st Century?. Routledge. ISBN 978-0429032486.
^ ^a ^b ^c Richards, Imogen; Jones, Callum (2021). "Quillette, classical liberalism, and the international New Right". Contemporary Far-Right Thinkers and the Future of Liberal Democracy. London: Routledge. pp. 126–127. ISBN 978-1003105176.
^ Porter, Nicole S.; Bothne, Nancy; Jason, Leonard (2008). "Interconnectedness and the Individual in Public Policy". In Evans, Sophie J. (ed.). Public Policy Issues Research Trends. Nova Publishers. pp. 125–126. ISBN 978-1-60021-873-6 – via Google Books.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Beirich, Heidi; Moser, Bob (31 December 2003). "Northwestern University Psychology Professor J. Michael Bailey Looks into Queer Science". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^ "Steve Sailer". iSteve.com. Archived from the original on 2005-03-12. Retrieved 15 October 2022. "I'm [...] the founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute, which runs the invitation-only Human Biodiversity discussion group for top scientists and public intellectuals."
^ Phillips, Jon (28 May 2014). "Troublesome Sources: Nicholas Wade's Embrace of Scientific Racism". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b Hatewatch Staff (4 June 2018). "In letter to Amazon, Alliance Defending Freedom cited white nationalist writer who once promoted 'gay germ' theory". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Feldman, Ari (5 August 2016). "Human Biodiversity: The Pseudoscientific Racism of the Alt-Right". Forward. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Panofsky, Aaron; Dasgupta, Kushan; Iturriaga, Nicole (June 2021). "How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry and human biodiversity to counterscience and metapolitics". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 175 (2): 387–398. doi:10.1002/ajpa.24150. PMC 9909835. PMID 32986847. S2CID 222163480.
^ Hawley, George (2017). Making Sense of the Alt-Right. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0231185134.
^ Evans, Gavin (2 March 2018). "The unwelcome revival of 'race science'". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^ Hemmer, Nicole (28 March 2017). "'Scientific racism' is on the rise on the right. But it's been lurking there for years". Vox. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b Hultgren, John (2015). "Naturalizing Nativism". Border Walls Gone Green: Nature and Anti-immigrant Politics in America. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-1452945699.
^ Holthouse, David (25 August 2008). "Extremist Steve Sailer is Source for CNN's 'Black in America' Series". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b Hayes, Richard (Spring 2001). "The Quiet Campaign for Genetically Engineered Humans". Earth Island Journal. 16 (1). Retrieved 16 October 2022.
^ Steve Sailer (16 December 1999). "Human Biodiversity: Home". Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
^ Donovan, Joan; Dreyfuss, Emily; Friedberg, Brian (2022). Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 69–70. ISBN 978-1635578638.
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^ "White Nationalist". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
^ "Alt Right: A Primer on the New White Supremacy". Anti-Defamation League. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
^ MacDougal, Park; Willick, Jason (30 April 2017). "The Man Who Invented Identity Politics for the New Right". New York Magazine. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
^ Fielitz, Maik; Thurston, Nick (2019). Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. p. 29. ISBN 978-3837646702.
^ Jones, Sarah (2 January 2020). "Will the 2020s Be the Decade of Eugenics?". New York Magazine. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Marantz, Andrew (2019). Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation. Penguin Publishing Group. p. 121. ISBN 978-0525522287.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Saini, Angela (21 May 2019). "Human Biodiversity: How race was rebranded for the twenty-first century". Superior: The Return of Race Science. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. pp. 87–92. ISBN 978-0807076910.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Dreger, Alice (June 2008). "The controversy surrounding "The man who would be queen": a case history of the politics of science, identity, and sex in the Internet age". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 37 (3): 366–421. doi:10.1007/s10508-007-9301-1. PMC 3170124. PMID 18431641.
^ Steve Sailer (20 August 1999). "Roster of Human Biodiversity Discussion Group Members". Archived from the original on 6 January 2003. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b Blasdel, Alex (28 September 2021). "Pinker's Progress: The Celebrity Scientist at the Centre of the Culture Wars". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
^ Gladwell, Malcolm (29 November 2009). "Let's Go to the Tape". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
^ Ordover, Nancy (2003). American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0816635580.
^ Sailer, Steve (March 2003). "iSteve.com Exclusives Archive: March 2003". iSteve.com. Archived from the original on 16 April 2003. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b Hatewatch Staff (7 April 2016). "Anti-LGBT Hate Group Releases Anti-Trans Position Statement". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hatewatch Staff (15 May 2018). "10 things you need to know about Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b Ashley, Florence (10 August 2020). "A critical commentary on 'rapid-onset gender dysphoria'". The Sociological Review. 68 (4): 779–799. doi:10.1177/0038026120934693. S2CID 221097476.

[hermansson_2017-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Hermansson, Patrik; Lawrence, David; Mulhall, Joe; Murdoch, Simon (2020). "For Whom the Bell Curves: The alt-right and pseudoscientific racism". The International Alt-Right: Fascism for the 21st Century?. Routledge. ISBN 978-0429032486.

[richards_2021_126-2] Richards, Imogen; Jones, Callum (2021). "Quillette, classical liberalism, and the international New Right". Contemporary Far-Right Thinkers and the Future of Liberal Democracy. London: Routledge. pp. 126–127. ISBN 978-1003105176.

[3] Porter, Nicole S.; Bothne, Nancy; Jason, Leonard (2008). "Interconnectedness and the Individual in Public Policy". In Evans, Sophie J. (ed.). Public Policy Issues Research Trends. Nova Publishers. pp. 125–126. ISBN 978-1-60021-873-6 – via Google Books.

[splc_20031231-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Beirich, Heidi; Moser, Bob (31 December 2003). "Northwestern University Psychology Professor J. Michael Bailey Looks into Queer Science". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

[5] "Steve Sailer". iSteve.com. Archived from the original on 2005-03-12. Retrieved 15 October 2022. "I'm [...] the founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute, which runs the invitation-only Human Biodiversity discussion group for top scientists and public intellectuals."

[splc_20140528-6] Phillips, Jon (28 May 2014). "Troublesome Sources: Nicholas Wade's Embrace of Scientific Racism". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 21 October 2022.

[splc_20180604-7] Hatewatch Staff (4 June 2018). "In letter to Amazon, Alliance Defending Freedom cited white nationalist writer who once promoted 'gay germ' theory". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 17 October 2022.

[feldman_20160805-8] Feldman, Ari (5 August 2016). "Human Biodiversity: The Pseudoscientific Racism of the Alt-Right". Forward. Retrieved 16 October 2022.

[panofsky_2021-9] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Panofsky, Aaron; Dasgupta, Kushan; Iturriaga, Nicole (June 2021). "How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry and human biodiversity to counterscience and metapolitics". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 175 (2): 387–398. doi:10.1002/ajpa.24150. PMC 9909835. PMID 32986847. S2CID 222163480.

[hawley_2017-10] Hawley, George (2017). Making Sense of the Alt-Right. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0231185134.

[evans_20180302-11] Evans, Gavin (2 March 2018). "The unwelcome revival of 'race science'". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

[hemmer_20170328-12] Hemmer, Nicole (28 March 2017). "'Scientific racism' is on the rise on the right. But it's been lurking there for years". Vox. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

[hultgren_2015-13] Hultgren, John (2015). "Naturalizing Nativism". Border Walls Gone Green: Nature and Anti-immigrant Politics in America. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-1452945699.

[splc_20080725-14] Holthouse, David (25 August 2008). "Extremist Steve Sailer is Source for CNN's 'Black in America' Series". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 16 October 2022.

[hayes_2001-15] Hayes, Richard (Spring 2001). "The Quiet Campaign for Genetically Engineered Humans". Earth Island Journal. 16 (1). Retrieved 16 October 2022.

[sailer_19991216-16] Steve Sailer (16 December 1999). "Human Biodiversity: Home". Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 19 October 2022.

[donovan_2022-17] Donovan, Joan; Dreyfuss, Emily; Friedberg, Brian (2022). Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 69–70. ISBN 978-1635578638.

[splc_alt_right-18] "Alt-right". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 16 October 2022.

[splc_white_nationalism-19] "White Nationalist". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 16 October 2022.

[adl_alt_right-20] "Alt Right: A Primer on the New White Supremacy". Anti-Defamation League. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2022.

[macdougald_20170430-21] MacDougal, Park; Willick, Jason (30 April 2017). "The Man Who Invented Identity Politics for the New Right". New York Magazine. Retrieved 16 October 2022.

[fielitz_2018-22] Fielitz, Maik; Thurston, Nick (2019). Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. p. 29. ISBN 978-3837646702.

[jones_20200102-23] Jones, Sarah (2 January 2020). "Will the 2020s Be the Decade of Eugenics?". New York Magazine. Retrieved 21 February 2023.

[marantz_2019_121-24] Marantz, Andrew (2019). Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation. Penguin Publishing Group. p. 121. ISBN 978-0525522287.

[saini_2019-25] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Saini, Angela (21 May 2019). "Human Biodiversity: How race was rebranded for the twenty-first century". Superior: The Return of Race Science. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. pp. 87–92. ISBN 978-0807076910.

[dreger_2008-26] Dreger, Alice (June 2008). "The controversy surrounding "The man who would be queen": a case history of the politics of science, identity, and sex in the Internet age". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 37 (3): 366–421. doi:10.1007/s10508-007-9301-1. PMC 3170124. PMID 18431641.

[sailer_roster-27] Steve Sailer (20 August 1999). "Roster of Human Biodiversity Discussion Group Members". Archived from the original on 6 January 2003. Retrieved 19 October 2022.

[blasdel_20210928-28] Blasdel, Alex (28 September 2021). "Pinker's Progress: The Celebrity Scientist at the Centre of the Culture Wars". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 January 2023.

[gladwell_20091129-29] Gladwell, Malcolm (29 November 2009). "Let's Go to the Tape". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 January 2023.

[ordover_2003_59-30] Ordover, Nancy (2003). American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0816635580.

[sailer_200303-31] Sailer, Steve (March 2003). "iSteve.com Exclusives Archive: March 2003". iSteve.com. Archived from the original on 16 April 2003. Retrieved 14 January 2023.

[splc_20160407-32] Hatewatch Staff (7 April 2016). "Anti-LGBT Hate Group Releases Anti-Trans Position Statement". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 21 October 2022.

[splc_20180515-33] Hatewatch Staff (15 May 2018). "10 things you need to know about Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 21 October 2022.

[ashley_2020-34] Ashley, Florence (10 August 2020). "A critical commentary on 'rapid-onset gender dysphoria'". The Sociological Review. 68 (4): 779–799. doi:10.1177/0038026120934693. S2CID 221097476.

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-The '''Human Biodiversity Institute''' also known by its acronym '''HBI''' is a private [[think tank]] linked to a [[Far-right politics|far-right]] group of scientists, academics, and others associated with [[race theory|race]] and [[eugenics|neo-eugenics theories]] often deemed pseudoscientific.<ref name="hermansson_2017" /><ref name="richards_2021_126" /><ref>{{cite book|editor-first=Sophie J.|editor-last=Evans|first1=Nicole S.|last1=Porter|first2=Nancy|last2=Bothne|first3=Leonard|last3=Jason|title=Public Policy Issues Research Trends|chapter=Interconnectedness and the Individual in Public Policy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8FimyKiZOXUC|publisher=Nova Publishers|date=2008|isbn=978-1-60021-873-6|via=Google Books|pages=125–126}}</ref> Founded by [[Steve Sailer]] in the late [[1990s|90s]], the theories were given the euphemism ''human biodiversity''. Ideas that originated in the group, presently believed to be dormant, have since entered general [[alt-right]] discourse.
+The '''Human Biodiversity Institute''' ('''HBI''') refers to a [[Far-right politics|far-right]] group of scientists, academics, and others associated with [[pseudoscientific]] [[race theory|race theories]] and [[neo-eugenics]].<ref name="hermansson_2017" /><ref name="richards_2021_126" /><ref>{{cite book|editor-first=Sophie J.|editor-last=Evans|first1=Nicole S.|last1=Porter|first2=Nancy|last2=Bothne|first3=Leonard|last3=Jason|title=Public Policy Issues Research Trends|chapter=Interconnectedness and the Individual in Public Policy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8FimyKiZOXUC|publisher=Nova Publishers|date=2008|isbn=978-1-60021-873-6|via=Google Books|pages=125–126}}</ref> Founded by [[Steve Sailer]] in the late 1990s, the theories were given the euphemism ''human biodiversity''. Ideas that originated in the group, presently believed to be dormant, have since entered general [[alt-right]] discourse.
 [[File:Steve Sailer, Twitter.jpg|thumb|186px|Steve Sailer, the group's founder]]
 ==Origins==
-The Human Biodiversity Institute was founded by [[Steve Sailer]], a journalist who has written for [[VDARE]], an American [[far-right]] political website.<ref name="splc_20031231">{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2003/northwestern-university-psychology-professor-j-michael-bailey-looks-queer-science |title=Northwestern University Psychology Professor J. Michael Bailey Looks into Queer Science |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |last1=Beirich |first1=Heidi |last2=Moser |first2=Bob |date=31 December 2003 |access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.isteve.com |title=Steve Sailer |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050312085549/http://www.isteve.com/ |archivedate=2005-03-12 |website=iSteve.com |access-date=15 October 2022}} "I'm [...] the founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute, which runs the invitation-only Human Biodiversity discussion group for top scientists and public intellectuals."</ref> Sailer has held numerous explicitly [[racism|racist]] views.<ref name="hermansson_2017">{{cite book |title=The International Alt-Right: Fascism for the 21st Century? | last1=Hermansson |first1=Patrik |last2=Lawrence |first2=David |last3=Mulhall |first3=Joe |last4=Murdoch |first4=Simon |publisher=Routledge |date=2020 |isbn=978-0429032486 |chapter=For Whom the Bell Curves: The alt-right and pseudoscientific racism}}</ref> He has bemoaned a perceived lack of [[white nationalism|white identity politics]], and has blamed this on a [[Jewish conspiracy]].<ref name="hermansson_2017"/> The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] has described Sailer as a [[white supremacy|white supremacist]].<ref name="splc_20140528">{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2014/05/28/troublesome-sources-nicholas-wade%E2%80%99s-embrace-scientific-racism |title=Troublesome Sources: Nicholas Wade's Embrace of Scientific Racism |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |last1=Phillips |first1=Jon |date=28 May 2014 |access-date=21 October 2022}}</ref> Sailer began using the term "human biodiversity" in the mid-1990's.<ref name="hermansson_2017"/> The Human Biodiversity Institute was run by Steve Sailer as a [[think tank]] in the late 1990's through the 2000's.<ref name="splc_20180604">{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/04/letter-amazon-alliance-defending-freedom-cited-white-nationalist-writer-who-once-promoted |title=In letter to Amazon, Alliance Defending Freedom cited white nationalist writer who once promoted 'gay germ' theory |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |author=Hatewatch Staff |date=4 June 2018 |access-date=17 October 2022}}</ref>
+The Human Biodiversity Institute was founded by [[Steve Sailer]], a journalist who has written for [[VDARE]], an American [[far-right]] political website.<ref name="splc_20031231">{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2003/northwestern-university-psychology-professor-j-michael-bailey-looks-queer-science |title=Northwestern University Psychology Professor J. Michael Bailey Looks into Queer Science |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |last1=Beirich |first1=Heidi |last2=Moser |first2=Bob |date=31 December 2003 |access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.isteve.com |title=Steve Sailer |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050312085549/http://www.isteve.com/ |archivedate=2005-03-12 |website=iSteve.com |access-date=15 October 2022}} "I'm [...] the founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute, which runs the invitation-only Human Biodiversity discussion group for top scientists and public intellectuals."</ref> Sailer has held numerous explicitly [[racism|racist]] views.<ref name="hermansson_2017">{{cite book |title=The International Alt-Right: Fascism for the 21st Century? | last1=Hermansson |first1=Patrik |last2=Lawrence |first2=David |last3=Mulhall |first3=Joe |last4=Murdoch |first4=Simon |publisher=Routledge |date=2020 |isbn=978-0429032486 |chapter=For Whom the Bell Curves: The alt-right and pseudoscientific racism}}</ref> He has bemoaned a perceived lack of [[white nationalism|white identity politics]], and has blamed this on a [[Jewish conspiracy]].<ref name="hermansson_2017"/> The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] has described Sailer as a [[white supremacy|white supremacist]].<ref name="splc_20140528">{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2014/05/28/troublesome-sources-nicholas-wade%E2%80%99s-embrace-scientific-racism |title=Troublesome Sources: Nicholas Wade's Embrace of Scientific Racism |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |last1=Phillips |first1=Jon |date=28 May 2014 |access-date=21 October 2022}}</ref> Sailer began using the term "human biodiversity" in the mid-1990s.<ref name="hermansson_2017"/> The Human Biodiversity Institute was run by Steve Sailer as a [[think tank]] in the late 1990s through the 2000s.<ref name="splc_20180604">{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/04/letter-amazon-alliance-defending-freedom-cited-white-nationalist-writer-who-once-promoted |title=In letter to Amazon, Alliance Defending Freedom cited white nationalist writer who once promoted 'gay germ' theory |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |author=Hatewatch Staff |date=4 June 2018 |access-date=17 October 2022}}</ref>
 ==Themes==
-The framing of "human biodiversity" discourse is meant to confer upon the movement scientific authority, and present it as empirical and rational.<ref name="hermansson_2017"/><ref name="feldman_20160805">{{Cite web |url=https://forward.com/opinion/346533/human-biodiversity-the-pseudoscientific-racism-of-the-alt-right/ |title=Human Biodiversity: The Pseudoscientific Racism of the Alt-Right |last1=Feldman |first1=Ari |website=Forward |date=5 August 2016 |access-date=16 October 2022}}</ref> On this basis, advocates of HBD wish to advance social policies based on their observations.<ref name="hermansson_2017"/><ref name="feldman_20160805"/> In a study on [[white nationalism]], the authors describe "human biodiversity" as a movement to "catalog and create hereditarian ideas" about racial differences, and to then distribute them as "[[red pill]]s" to transform online discourse.<ref name="panofsky_2021">{{Cite journal |title=How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry and human biodiversity to counterscience and metapolitics |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |date=June 2021 |pmid=32986847 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.24150 |last1=Panofsky |first1=Aaron |last2=Dasgupta |first2=Kushan |last3=Iturriaga |first3=Nicole |volume=175 |issue=2 |pages=387–398 |pmc=9909835 |s2cid=222163480 }}</ref> "Human biodiversity" materials are used by [[alt-right]] proponents to make arguments on [[4chan]], [[Reddit]], and [[Twitter]].<ref name="panofsky_2021"/> Some proponents of HBD promote it in the alt-right [[blogosphere]].<ref name="hermansson_2017"/><ref name="panofsky_2021"/>
+The framing of ''human biodiversity'' discourse is meant to confer upon the movement scientific authority, and present it as empirical and rational.<ref name="hermansson_2017"/><ref name="feldman_20160805">{{Cite web |url=https://forward.com/opinion/346533/human-biodiversity-the-pseudoscientific-racism-of-the-alt-right/ |title=Human Biodiversity: The Pseudoscientific Racism of the Alt-Right |last1=Feldman |first1=Ari |website=Forward |date=5 August 2016 |access-date=16 October 2022}}</ref> On this basis, advocates of this idea wish to advance social policies based on their observations.<ref name="hermansson_2017"/><ref name="feldman_20160805"/> In a study on [[white nationalism]], the authors describe ''human biodiversity'' as a movement to "catalog and create hereditarian ideas" about racial differences, and to then distribute them as [[Red pill|red pills]] to transform online discourse.<ref name="panofsky_2021">{{Cite journal |title=How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry and human biodiversity to counterscience and metapolitics |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |date=June 2021 |pmid=32986847 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.24150 |last1=Panofsky |first1=Aaron |last2=Dasgupta |first2=Kushan |last3=Iturriaga |first3=Nicole |volume=175 |issue=2 |pages=387–398 |pmc=9909835 |s2cid=222163480 }}</ref> ''Human biodiversity'' materials are used by [[alt-right]] proponents to make arguments on [[4chan]], [[Reddit]], and [[Twitter]].<ref name="panofsky_2021"/> Some proponents promote it in the alt-right [[blogosphere]].<ref name="hermansson_2017"/><ref name="panofsky_2021"/>
-The "human biodiversity" movement refers to a set of ideas about scientific racism that formed in the 1990's.<ref name="hawley_2017">{{Cite book |title=Making Sense of the Alt-Right |last1=Hawley |first1=George |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York, NY |date=2017 |page=27 | isbn=978-0231185134}}</ref><ref name="evans_20180302">{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-revival-of-race-science |title=The unwelcome revival of 'race science' |website=The Guardian |last1=Evans |first1=Gavin |date=2 March 2018 |access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref><ref name="hemmer_20170328">{{Cite web |url=https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/3/28/15078400/scientific-racism-murray-alt-right-black-muslim-culture-trump |title='Scientific racism' is on the rise on the right. But it's been lurking there for years. | website=Vox |last1=Hemmer |first1=Nicole |date=28 March 2017 |access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref> Sailer developed a concept of "ethnic nepotism", favoring members of one's own group.<ref name="hultgren_2015">{{Cite book |title=Border Walls Gone Green: Nature and Anti-immigrant Politics in America |last1=Hultgren |first1=John |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |location=Minneapolis, MN |chapter=Naturalizing Nativism |date=2015 |isbn=978-1452945699}}</ref> Sailer took this as a biological imperative that necessitates, "[[ethnocentrism]], [[clan]]nishness, [[xenophobia]], [[nationalism]], and racism," when applied to the scale of an entire society for "ethnic nepotism".<ref name="hultgren_2015"/>
+The ''human biodiversity'' movement refers to a set of ideas about scientific racism that formed in the 1990s.<ref name="hawley_2017">{{Cite book |title=Making Sense of the Alt-Right |last1=Hawley |first1=George |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York, NY |date=2017 |page=27 | isbn=978-0231185134}}</ref><ref name="evans_20180302">{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-revival-of-race-science |title=The unwelcome revival of 'race science' |website=The Guardian |last1=Evans |first1=Gavin |date=2 March 2018 |access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref><ref name="hemmer_20170328">{{Cite web |url=https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/3/28/15078400/scientific-racism-murray-alt-right-black-muslim-culture-trump |title='Scientific racism' is on the rise on the right. But it's been lurking there for years. | website=Vox |last1=Hemmer |first1=Nicole |date=28 March 2017 |access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref> Sailer developed a concept of "ethnic nepotism", favoring members of one's own group.<ref name="hultgren_2015">{{Cite book |title=Border Walls Gone Green: Nature and Anti-immigrant Politics in America |last1=Hultgren |first1=John |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |location=Minneapolis, MN |chapter=Naturalizing Nativism |date=2015 |isbn=978-1452945699}}</ref> Sailer took this as a biological imperative that necessitates "[[ethnocentrism]], [[clan]]nishness, [[xenophobia]], [[nationalism]], and racism", when applied to the scale of an entire society for "ethnic nepotism".<ref name="hultgren_2015"/>
 The Southern Poverty Law Center has also associated the Human Biodiversity Institute with [[neo-eugenics]].<ref name="splc_20031231"/><ref name="splc_20080725">{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2008/07/25/extremist-steve-sailer-source-cnns-black-america-series |title=Extremist Steve Sailer is Source for CNN's 'Black in America' Series |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |last1=Holthouse |first1=David |date=25 August 2008 |access-date=16 October 2022}}</ref> In 1999, the Human Biodiversity Institute presented a seminar advocating for [[genetically modified humans]].<ref name="hayes_2001">{{Cite journal |url=https://fbaum.unc.edu/lobby/_107th/121_Human_Cloning/Organizational_Statements/CGS/CGS_Quiet_Campaign_01.htm |title=The Quiet Campaign for Genetically Engineered Humans |journal=Earth Island Journal |volume=16 |number=1 |date=Spring 2001 |last1=Hayes |first1=Richard |access-date=16 October 2022}}</ref> The seminar was held at the [[Hudson Institute]] and was attended by [[Margaret Thatcher]].<ref name="hayes_2001"/><ref name="sailer_19991216">{{Cite web |url=http://www.humanbiodiversity.org/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817214428/http://www.humanbiodiversity.org/ |url-status=dead |title=Human Biodiversity: Home |author=Steve Sailer |date=16 December 1999 |archive-date=17 August 2000 |access-date=19 October 2022}}</ref>
 ==Influence==
-Between 2007 and 2014, terminology used by [[Stormfront (website)|Stormfront]] for scientific racism changed from "racialism" and "race realism", to "human biodiversity" (HBD).<ref name="donovan_2022">{{Cite book |title=Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |location=New York, NY |date=2022 |last1=Donovan |first1=Joan |last2=Dreyfuss |first2=Emily |last3=Friedberg |first3=Brian |isbn=978-1635578638 |pages=69–70}}</ref>
+Between 2007 and 2014, terminology used by [[Stormfront (website)|Stormfront]] for scientific racism changed from "racialism" and "race realism", to "human biodiversity".<ref name="donovan_2022">{{Cite book |title=Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |location=New York, NY |date=2022 |last1=Donovan |first1=Joan |last2=Dreyfuss |first2=Emily |last3=Friedberg |first3=Brian |isbn=978-1635578638 |pages=69–70}}</ref>
-The Southern Poverty Law Center has associated "human biodiversity" with the alt-right and white nationalism.<ref name="splc_alt_right">{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/alt-right |title=Alt-right |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=16 October 2022}}</ref><ref name="splc_white_nationalism">{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/white-nationalist |title=White Nationalist |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=16 October 2022}}</ref> The [[Anti-Defamation League]] has associated HBD with the alt-right and white supremacy.<ref name="adl_alt_right">{{Cite web |url=https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/alt-right-a-primer-on-the-new-white-supremacy |title=Alt Right: A Primer on the New White Supremacy |website=Anti-Defamation League |date=10 February 2016 |access-date=16 October 2022}}</ref> An April 2017 article in ''[[New York Magazine]]'' described HBD as a "mainstay" of the alt-right.<ref name="macdougald_20170430">{{Cite web |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/04/steve-sailer-invented-identity-politics-for-the-alt-right.html |title=The Man Who Invented Identity Politics for the New Right |website=New York Magazine |last1=MacDougal |first1=Park |last2=Willick |first2=Jason |date=30 April 2017 |access-date=16 October 2022}}</ref>
+The Southern Poverty Law Center has associated ''human biodiversity'' with the alt-right and white nationalism.<ref name="splc_alt_right">{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/alt-right |title=Alt-right |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=16 October 2022}}</ref><ref name="splc_white_nationalism">{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/white-nationalist |title=White Nationalist |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=16 October 2022}}</ref> The [[Anti-Defamation League]] has associated ''human biodiversity'' with the alt-right and white supremacy.<ref name="adl_alt_right">{{Cite web |url=https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/alt-right-a-primer-on-the-new-white-supremacy |title=Alt Right: A Primer on the New White Supremacy |website=Anti-Defamation League |date=10 February 2016 |access-date=16 October 2022}}</ref> An April 2017 article in ''[[New York Magazine]]'' described the movement as a "mainstay" of the alt-right.<ref name="macdougald_20170430">{{Cite web |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/04/steve-sailer-invented-identity-politics-for-the-alt-right.html |title=The Man Who Invented Identity Politics for the New Right |website=New York Magazine |last1=MacDougal |first1=Park |last2=Willick |first2=Jason |date=30 April 2017 |access-date=16 October 2022}}</ref>
-"Human biodiversity" was one of the main publishing subjects of [[Washington Summit Publishers]], a white nationalist publishing company run by [[Richard B. Spencer]].<ref name="fielitz_2018">{{Cite book |title=Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US |publisher=transcript Verlag |location=Bielefeld |last1=Fielitz |first1=Maik |last2=Thurston |first2=Nick |date=2019 |isbn=978-3837646702 |page=29}}</ref> ''[[Quillette]]'' has also published work supporting "human biodiversity", leading to accusations of pseudoscience and [[eugenics]].<ref name="jones_20200102">{{Cite web |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/eugenic-ideas-never-really-went-away.html |title=Will the 2020s Be the Decade of Eugenics? |website=New York Magazine |last1=Jones |first1=Sarah |date=2 January 2020 |access-date=21 February 2023}}</ref><ref name="richards_2021_126">{{Cite book |last1=Richards |first1=Imogen |last2=Jones |first2=Callum |title=Contemporary Far-Right Thinkers and the Future of Liberal Democracy |year=2021 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-1003105176 |chapter=Quillette, classical liberalism, and the international New Right| pages=126–127}}</ref> Contributors who have written about HBD for ''Quillette'' include [[Ben Winegard]], [[Bo Winegard]], [[Brian Boutwell]], and [[John Paul Wright]].<ref name="richards_2021_126"/>
+''Human biodiversity'' was one of the main publishing subjects of [[Washington Summit Publishers]], a white nationalist publishing company run by [[Richard B. Spencer]].<ref name="fielitz_2018">{{Cite book |title=Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US |publisher=transcript Verlag |location=Bielefeld |last1=Fielitz |first1=Maik |last2=Thurston |first2=Nick |date=2019 |isbn=978-3837646702 |page=29}}</ref> ''[[Quillette]]'' has also published work supporting ''human biodiversity'', leading to accusations of pseudoscience and [[eugenics]].<ref name="jones_20200102">{{Cite web |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/eugenic-ideas-never-really-went-away.html |title=Will the 2020s Be the Decade of Eugenics? |website=New York Magazine |last1=Jones |first1=Sarah |date=2 January 2020 |access-date=21 February 2023}}</ref><ref name="richards_2021_126">{{Cite book |last1=Richards |first1=Imogen |last2=Jones |first2=Callum |title=Contemporary Far-Right Thinkers and the Future of Liberal Democracy |year=2021 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-1003105176 |chapter=Quillette, classical liberalism, and the international New Right| pages=126–127}}</ref> Contributors who have written on the topic of ''human biodivesity'' for ''Quillette'' include [[Ben Winegard]], [[Bo Winegard]], [[Brian Boutwell]], and [[John Paul Wright]].<ref name="richards_2021_126"/>
-"Human biodiversity" has been promoted by [[Milo Yiannopoulos]].<ref name="feldman_20160805"/><ref name="marantz_2019_121">{{Cite book |title=Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation |publisher=Penguin Publishing Group |last1=Marantz |first1=Andrew |date=2019 |page=121 |isbn=978-0525522287}}</ref> It has also been promoted by [[Stefan Molyneux]].<ref name="hermansson_2017"/> HBD influenced [[Stephen Miller (political advisor)|Stephen Miller]], political advisor to [[Donald Trump]].<ref name="panofsky_2021"/> It also influenced [[Dominic Cummings]], political advisor to [[Boris Johnson]].<ref name="panofsky_2021"/>
+''Human biodiversity'' has been promoted by [[Milo Yiannopoulos]].<ref name="feldman_20160805"/><ref name="marantz_2019_121">{{Cite book |title=Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation |publisher=Penguin Publishing Group |last1=Marantz |first1=Andrew |date=2019 |page=121 |isbn=978-0525522287}}</ref> It has also been promoted by [[Stefan Molyneux]].<ref name="hermansson_2017"/> and influenced [[Stephen Miller (political advisor)|Stephen Miller]], political advisor to [[Donald Trump]].<ref name="panofsky_2021"/> It also influenced [[Dominic Cummings]], political advisor to [[Boris Johnson]].<ref name="panofsky_2021"/>
 ==Membership==
-According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the members of the Human Biodiversity Institute consisted mainly of journalists, academics, and scientists who discussed "differences in [[Race (human categorization)|race]], [[sex]] and [[sexual orientation]]".<ref name="splc_20031231"/> By summer 1999, the group consisted of dozens of well-known figures from a variety of different fields.<ref name="saini_2019"/> Members of the Human Biodiversity Institute communicated primarily via an invitation-only [[electronic mailing list]].<ref name="dreger_2008">{{cite journal |last=Dreger |first=Alice |title=The controversy surrounding "The man who would be queen": a case history of the politics of science, identity, and sex in the Internet age |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |date=June 2008 |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=366–421 |pmid=18431641 |doi=10.1007/s10508-007-9301-1 |pmc=3170124}}</ref> This mailing list was called the "Human Biodiversity Discussion Group" (HBDG).<ref name="saini_2019">{{Cite book |title=Superior: The Return of Race Science |last1=Saini |first1=Angela |publisher=Beacon Press |location=Boston, MA |isbn=978-0807076910 |chapter=Human Biodiversity: How race was rebranded for the twenty-first century |date=21 May 2019 |pages=87–92}}</ref> In the early history of the mailing list, Sailer published a roster of members on his website.<ref name="sailer_roster">{{Cite web |url=http://members.aol.com:80/steveslr/roster.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030106100249/http://members.aol.com:80/steveslr/roster.htm |url-status=dead |title=Roster of Human Biodiversity Discussion Group Members |author=Steve Sailer |date=20 August 1999 |archive-date=6 January 2003 |access-date=19 October 2022}}</ref>
+According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the members of the Human Biodiversity Institute consisted mainly of journalists, academics, and scientists who discussed "differences in [[Race (human categorization)|race]], [[sex]] and [[sexual orientation]]".<ref name="splc_20031231"/> By summer 1999, the group consisted of dozens of well-known figures from a variety of different fields.<ref name="saini_2019"/> Members of the Human Biodiversity Institute communicated primarily via an invitation-only [[electronic mailing list]].<ref name="dreger_2008">{{cite journal |last=Dreger |first=Alice |title=The controversy surrounding "The man who would be queen": a case history of the politics of science, identity, and sex in the Internet age |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |date=June 2008 |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=366–421 |pmid=18431641 |doi=10.1007/s10508-007-9301-1 |pmc=3170124}}</ref> This mailing list was called the Human Biodiversity Discussion Group.<ref name="saini_2019">{{Cite book |title=Superior: The Return of Race Science |last1=Saini |first1=Angela |publisher=Beacon Press |location=Boston, MA |isbn=978-0807076910 |chapter=Human Biodiversity: How race was rebranded for the twenty-first century |date=21 May 2019 |pages=87–92}}</ref> In the early history of the mailing list, Sailer published a roster of members on his website.<ref name="sailer_roster">{{Cite web |url=http://members.aol.com:80/steveslr/roster.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030106100249/http://members.aol.com:80/steveslr/roster.htm |url-status=dead |title=Roster of Human Biodiversity Discussion Group Members |author=Steve Sailer |date=20 August 1999 |archive-date=6 January 2003 |access-date=19 October 2022}}</ref>
 In 2003, known members of Human Biodiversity Institute included [[J. Philippe Rushton]], [[Charles Murray (political scientist)|Charles Murray]], [[Kevin MacDonald (evolutionary psychologist)|Kevin MacDonald]], [[Gregory Cochran]], [[J. Michael Bailey]], and [[Ray Blanchard]].<ref name="splc_20031231"/> The HBI also included several journalists who worked to popularize the theories and books of HBI members.<ref name="splc_20031231"/>
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 ==Views==
 ===Human races===
-"Human biodiversity" (HBD) discourse presumes that different human races have inherently different physical and mental capabilities.<ref name="marantz_2019_121"/> Charles Murray, a member of the Human Biodiversity Institute, was a writer of the 1994 book, ''[[The Bell Curve]]'', which argued that [[African Americans]] were less intelligent than [[white Americans]].<ref name="saini_2019"/> The book argued that innate biological differences made racial equity impossible. They instead advocated for different roles for each race in society.<ref name="saini_2019"/> Steve Sailer advocated for similar ideas, espousing different strengths for different races and ethnic groups, and advocating against [[affirmative action]].<ref name="saini_2019"/> Marantz describes how this idea combines with ideas about white supremacy:<ref name="marantz_2019_121"/>
+''Human biodiversity'' discourse presumes that different human races have inherently different physical and mental capabilities.<ref name="marantz_2019_121"/> Charles Murray, a member of the Human Biodiversity Institute, was a writer of the 1994 book, ''[[The Bell Curve]]'', which argued that [[African Americans]] were less intelligent than [[white Americans]].<ref name="saini_2019"/> The book argued that innate biological differences made racial equity impossible. They instead advocated for different roles for each race in society.<ref name="saini_2019"/> Steve Sailer advocated for similar ideas, espousing different strengths for different races and ethnic groups, and advocating against [[affirmative action]].<ref name="saini_2019"/> Marantz describes how this idea combines with ideas about white supremacy:<ref name="marantz_2019_121"/>
 {{blockquote|"HBD" stood for human biodiversity{{mdash}}a phrase that had gone [[viral phenomenon|viral]] within the alt-right blogosphere, largely owing to Sailer's repeated use of it. Human biodiversity: the hypothesis that people are different, that they differ in predictable ways, and that some groups of people{{mdash}}some races, for example{{mdash}}have drawn stronger cards in the genetic lottery. On Sailer's blog, most discussions of human biodiversity ended up returning to one specific, enduring idea: that [[white people]] are inherently smarter than [[black people]].}}
-Advocates of HBD may attempt to portray their views of scientific racism as being completely objective.<ref name="hermansson_2017"/> They may then express sadness about the "reality" of differences in racial intelligence, and the implications of those differences:<ref name="hermansson_2017"/>
+Advocates of ''human biodiversity'' may attempt to portray their views of scientific racism as being completely objective.<ref name="hermansson_2017"/> They may then express sadness about the "reality" of differences in racial intelligence, and the implications of those differences:<ref name="hermansson_2017"/>
 {{blockquote|One common trait amongst HBD acolytes within the alt-right is a sometimes genuine, though feigned, reluctance to accept the "truth" of racial intelligence difference based on genes. Many couch their advocacy for HBD in a faux-sadness and argue that, thought they wish it were not true, the evidence was just too overwhelming. The genuineness of this varies between individuals but often their wider politics and previous statements indicate a predisposition to agreeing with racist pseudoscience.}}
 ===Homosexuality===
-In an August 2003 article, the founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute, Steve Sailer, characterized [[homosexuality]] as a "disease" that may be eliminated by parents in the future.<ref name="splc_20031231"/> HBI member Gregory Cochran has theorized that homosexuality may be caused by a [[pathogen]] ("[[gay germ]]").<ref name="ordover_2003_59">{{Cite book |title=American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism |last1=Ordover |first1=Nancy |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |location=Minneapolis, MN |year=2003 |isbn=978-0816635580 |page=59}}</ref> In 2008, J. Michael Bailey, another HBI member, was questioned by bioethicist [[Alice Dreger]] on whether he also viewed homosexuality as a "disease" that could be eradicated.<ref name="dreger_2008"/> Bailey denied that his 2001 paper, "Parental Selection of Children's Sexual Orientation", advocated for eliminating homosexuality.<ref name="dreger_2008"/> However, he did say that it would be morally acceptable for parents to genetically select [[heterosexuality]] over homosexuality for their own children:<ref name="dreger_2008"/>
+In an August 2003 article, the founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute, Steve Sailer, characterized [[homosexuality]] as a "disease" that may be eliminated by parents in the future.<ref name="splc_20031231"/> HBI member Gregory Cochran has theorized that homosexuality may be caused by a [[gay germ]].<ref name="ordover_2003_59">{{Cite book |title=American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism |last1=Ordover |first1=Nancy |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |location=Minneapolis, MN |year=2003 |isbn=978-0816635580 |page=59}}</ref> In 2008, J. Michael Bailey, another HBI member, was questioned by bioethicist [[Alice Dreger]] on whether he also viewed homosexuality as a "disease" that could be eradicated.<ref name="dreger_2008"/> Bailey denied that his 2001 paper, "Parental Selection of Children's Sexual Orientation", advocated for eliminating homosexuality, as he noted "[H]omosexuality, like heterosexuality, is ethically neutral."<ref name="dreger_2008"/> However, he did say that it would be morally acceptable, assuming means morally unproblematic in themselves, for parents to genetically select [[heterosexuality]] over homosexuality for their own children:<ref name="dreger_2008"/>
-{{blockquote|Bailey has insisted that, in this paper, he and Greenberg simply argued one thing: that parental rights could reasonably be understood to include genetic selection against—or for—a theoretic "[[gay gene]]" in the same way that parental rights are reasonably understood to include the right to raise children in parents' religions.}}
+{{blockquote|Bailey has insisted that, in this paper, he and Greenberg simply argued one thing: that parental rights could reasonably be understood to include genetic selection against—or for—a theoretic "[[gay gene]]" in the same way that parental rights are reasonably understood to include the right to raise children in parents' religions. A close reading of the paper certainly seems to bear out Bailey’s claims about it.}}
 According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Steve Sailer has portrayed homosexuality as something that might possibly be "cured", following Gregory Cochran's theories, and has also expressed a lack of concern about the ethics or morality of whether people would "cure" homosexuality.<ref name="splc_20180604"/>
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 {{See also|Blanchard's transsexualism typology}}
-The Southern Poverty Law Center has noted that many of the early supporters of J. Michael Bailey's book, ''[[The Man Who Would Be Queen]]'', were members of the Human Biodiversity Institute.<ref name="splc_20031231"/> Ray Blanchard, the originator of the theory about [[transgender women]] promoted in the book, is also associated with the Human Biodiversity Institute.<ref name="splc_20031231"/> The book advances the theory by Blanchard that transgender women are men with abnormal [[paraphilia]]s or sexual orientations (e.g. [[autogynephilia]]). In March 2003, Steve Sailer wrote that he was sent a pre-release copy of ''The Man Who Would Be Queen''.<ref name="sailer_200303">{{Cite web |url=http://isteve.com/Web%20Exclusives%20Archive-Mar2003.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030416192354/http://isteve.com/Web%20Exclusives%20Archive-Mar2003.htm |archive-date=16 April 2003 |url-status=dead |title=iSteve.com Exclusives Archive: March 2003 |website=iSteve.com |last=Sailer |first=Steve |date=March 2003 |access-date=14 January 2023}}</ref>
+The Southern Poverty Law Center has noted that many of the early supporters of J. Michael Bailey's book, ''[[The Man Who Would Be Queen]]'', were members of the Human Biodiversity Institute.<ref name="splc_20031231"/> Ray Blanchard, the originator of the theory about [[transgender women]] promoted in the book, is also associated with the Human Biodiversity Institute.<ref name="splc_20031231"/> The book advances the theory by Blanchard that female-attracted transgender women are men with abnormal [[paraphilia]]s or sexual orientations (e.g. [[autogynephilia]]). In March 2003, Steve Sailer wrote that he was sent a pre-release copy of ''The Man Who Would Be Queen''.<ref name="sailer_200303">{{Cite web |url=http://isteve.com/Web%20Exclusives%20Archive-Mar2003.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030416192354/http://isteve.com/Web%20Exclusives%20Archive-Mar2003.htm |archive-date=16 April 2003 |url-status=dead |title=iSteve.com Exclusives Archive: March 2003 |website=iSteve.com |last=Sailer |first=Steve |date=March 2003 |access-date=14 January 2023}}</ref>
 According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Blanchard's autogynephilia theory has since been promoted by [[List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-LGBT hate groups|anti-LGBT hate groups]].<ref name="splc_20160407">{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/04/07/anti-lgbt-hate-group-releases-anti-trans-position-statement |title=Anti-LGBT Hate Group Releases Anti-Trans Position Statement |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |author=Hatewatch Staff |date=7 April 2016 |access-date=21 October 2022}}</ref><ref name="splc_20180515">{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/05/15/10-things-you-need-know-about-tony-perkins-and-family-research-council |title=10 things you need to know about Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |author=Hatewatch Staff |date=15 May 2018 |access-date=21 October 2022}}</ref> These include [[Family Research Council]] (FRC), and the [[American College of Pediatricians]] (ACPeds).<ref name="splc_20160407"/><ref name="splc_20180515"/> In a May 2018 report, the Southern Poverty Law Center referred to Ray Blanchard as an [[anti-trans]] psychologist.<ref name="splc_20180515"/>
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 {{See also|Racial bias on Wikipedia}}
-In a review of far-right editing on [[Wikipedia]], the Southern Poverty Law Center highlighted "human biodiversity" (HBD) as one set of views that may be promoted by far-right editors:<ref name="ward_20180312">{{Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/12/wikipedia-wars-inside-fight-against-far-right-editors-vandals-and-sock-puppets |title=Wikipedia wars: inside the fight against far-right editors, vandals and sock puppets |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |last1=Ward |first1=Justin |date=12 March 2018 |access-date=21 February 2023}}</ref>
+In a review of far-right editing on [[Wikipedia]], the Southern Poverty Law Center highlighted ''human biodiversity'' as one set of views that may be promoted by far-right editors:
-{{blockquote|Users who fall into &lsqb;[[Wikipedia:Civil POV pushing|civil POV-pushers]]&rsqb; include racialist academics and members of the human biodiversity, or HBD, blogging community. Often these are single-purpose accounts that exclusively edit on topics like race and intelligence, racial classification and bios of related researchers, like [[Linda Gottfredson]] or [[Helmuth Nyborg]].}}
+{{blockquote|text=Users who fall into this category include racialist academics and members of the human biodiversity, or HBD, blogging community. Often these are single-purpose accounts that exclusively edit on topics like race and intelligence, racial classification and bios of related researchers, like [[Linda Gottfredson]] or [[Helmuth Nyborg]].|author=Justin Ward|title=Wikipedia wars: inside the fight against far-right editors, vandals and sock puppets|source=[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/12/wikipedia-wars-inside-fight-against-far-right-editors-vandals-and-sock-puppets Hopewatch], [[Southern Poverty Law Center|SPLC]] (2018)}}
 ==See also==
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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Human Biodiversity Institute}}
-[[Category:Organizations that oppose LGBT rights in the United States]]
+[[Category:Organizations that oppose LGBTQ rights in the United States]]
 [[Category:Alt-right organizations]]
 [[Category:Eugenics in the United States]]

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