Bryan Pesta

Bryan J. Pesta is a hereditarianism pseudoscientist and editor-in-chief of Psych. He currently is a Professor of Graduate Business Programs at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.[2] He holds a PhD in Psychology from University of Akron. Pesta is an atheist.[3]

“”He is a white, British Cocker Spaniel. I also have a black, American Cocker Spaniel. The white cock is larger than the black cock. Odd...!
—Bryan Pesta[1]
Bryan Pesta
The colorful pseudoscience
Racialism
Hating thy neighbour
Divide and conquer
Dog-whistlers
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Pesta controversially co-authors pseudoscientific race and intelligence papers with white nationalists John Fuerst and Emil Kirkegaard.[4][5][6]

Pseudoscience

Pesta has done a decent amount of legitimate research, much of it published in reputable journals, on psychological topics like memory and the link between religion and intelligence.[7][8] However, he is also active in promoting discredited theories about race and intelligence. For instance, he pals around with Emil Kirkegaard and other racialist pseudoscientists, serving on the editorial board of one of Kirkegaard's OpenPsych pseudojournals, (co-)authoring three articles in these journals and reviewing four others,[9] further coauthoring a recent article with Kirkegaard in the overtly racist Mankind Quarterly.[10] He used to edit Wikipedia's article about race and intelligenceFile:Wikipedia's W.svg back in 2010.[11] In 2019, he returned to create Michael A. Woodley of Menie's Wikipedia article.[12]

Psych journal

Because OpenPsych was heavily criticized by the media in 2018 for its association with eugenics and white supremacy, most racialists stop publishing in it. Pesta who serves on their editorial board, is now editor-in-chief of the open access Psych journal, widely regarded as OpenPsych's successor.[13] He's also the "Special Issue Editor" of Psych's Beyond Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability.[14] The project was set up to validate J. Philippe Rushton and Arthur Jensen's pseudoscientific hereditarianism research.[14]

Bryan J Pesta's lab

Pesta claims to operate a laboratory at Cleveland State University.[15] There are only two "research fellows" of the lab, John Fuerst and Emil Kirkegaard.

gollark: I had to look up Nyquist zones but that sounds plausible I guess.
gollark: So nyquistishly you could only transmit up to 40.
gollark: I can't really check this right now due to being on my phone; how does it work? I thought the useful ESP32 peripherals for this (I²S and maybe the RMT one) only went to 80MHz.
gollark: Just become sovereign so you can set your own laws about it.
gollark: Does it count if you modulate the interference by turning it on and off pretty fast?

References
  1. Bryan Pesta on Twitter
  2. Bryan J Pesta. Cleveland State University.
  3. Atheists' MySpace page restored after hacking incident
  4. Bryan J Pesta. ResearchGate.
  5. Bibliometric Keyword Analysis across Seventeen Years (2000–2016) of Intelligence Articles
  6. Does intelligence explain national score variance on graduate admissions exams?
  7. His Google Scholar profile
  8. The bright, the dim, and the in-between
  9. OpenPsych profile
  10. An S Factor Analysis on the Provinces of Vietnam: Relationships with Cognitive Ability, Ethnicity, and Latitude
  11. Wikipedia Talk: Race and Intelligence
  12. Bpesta22: User contributions Wikipedia
  13. Psych — Journal Editorial Board
  14. Beyond Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability. Bryan J. Pesta.
  15. Bryan J Pesta's Lab
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