Polygenic Scores advances race science. It is the successor to the Pioneer Fund, an American eugenics organisation created in 1937 that developed ties to Nazi Germany and disseminated its propaganda. Registered in Wyoming for privacy reasons, Polygenic Scores is led by Emil Kirkegaard, a Danish race scientist. First called the Human Diversity Foundation, the name was changed in April 2025 following an infiltration project by HOPE not hate.

Kirkegaard — whose legal name is William Engman — is the manager of Polygenic Scores. When an undercover reporter met Kirkegaard and his colleague, the British private school teacher Matthew Frost, the company controlled a number of initiatives to promote race science. Chief among them were OpenPsych and Mankind Quarterly, both pseudo-academic journals, in addition to a team of underground researchers such as Davide Piffer, an Italian former academic who once referred to African immigrants as “gorillas” and had his paper cited in the manifesto of the 2022 Buffalo terrorist who killed 10 people. 

The impact of our investigation into Polygenic Scores has downgraded its output. Andrew Conru, a wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneur who had given the company $1.3 million, announced in late 2024 that he would now cut ties. The resulting publicity coincided with a decline in the quality of the organisation’s highest-quality media asset, Aporia Magazine.

Aporia was previously able to book podcast appearances from mainstream writers and academics, among them Peter Hitchens, Nigel Biggar, and Noam Chomsky. This year, with the exception of Steven Pinker, the calibre of video interviewees and guest writers has dropped to obscure conspiracy theorists and anonymous accounts. Aporia’s podcast is now co-hosted by magazine editor Noah Carl, a former Cambridge academic disparagingly described by Matthew Frost as “not charismatic enough” for the role. In 2025, Aporia also repeatedly published Lipton Matthews, a race science author whose own output was criticised by Frost as so poor quality that it was “a total waste of time”. Its X following has remained largely static at around 10,000 followers. 

Polygenic Scores was dealt a further blow in 2025 when one of its former leaders publicly broke with the organisation. For reasons that remain unclear, Erik Ahrens, a German white nationalist, uploaded YouTube videos that described the inner workings of his former friend and colleague, Emil Kirkegaard. In a December 2025 video, Ahrens accused Kirkegaard of tax avoidance and drunkenly discussing the hiring of a dark web assassin to murder one of his critics. Kirkegaard, at time of writing, had not responded to these claims.