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
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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: With the butterfly-weather-control example that's derived from, you can't actually track every butterfly and simulate the air movements resulting from this (yet, with current technology and algorithms), but you can just assume some amount of random noise (from that and other sources) which make predictions about the weather unreliable over large time intervals.
gollark: That seems nitpicky, the small stuff is still *mostly* irrelevant because you can lump it together or treat it as noise.
gollark: Why are you invoking the butterfly effect here?
gollark: That would fit with the general pattern of governments responding to bad things.
gollark: Apparently by texting numbers you can send payments, on mobile phones. What UTTER IDIOT thought that that was a good and secure idea?

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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