Undercover inside a ‘scientific racism’ network – podcast | News

Harry Shukman is a journalist and an activist with the anti-racist organization Hope Not Hate. About a year ago, under the name Chris, he went to infiltrate a group of far-right street activists. Following a lead he picked up at a far-right event in Estonia, his investigation led him down a different path. Instead of street thugs, he found himself in encounters with a network of people who considered themselves intellectuals, people who were concerned with what they called “human biodiversity” and what is more commonly known as scientific racism.

Shukman tells Michael Safi how he spent months undercover gathering information about the network and finding new clues to how it was financed that led to Silicon Valley.

For those in the network, the kind of inquiries they undertook into matters of perceived racial differences, particularly around intelligence, were a kind of forbidden science, with conclusions too controversial to be acknowledged by timid academics. But this is simply nonsense, say Adam Rutherforda geneticist working at University College London, who has a decades-long background of research in human biology and has written books refuting the claims of “racial science”.

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