Lasker has argued that crime is genetic and has compiled
race and intelligence charts on
X and
Substack, including on the Black-White IQ gap. Lasker is a hereditarian who has supported the racialist research of
Richard Lynn. His research on race and intelligence has been criticized by academics as an example of
pseudoscience entering mainstream academia. Pesta was later dismissed from his position at Cleveland State University.
Elon Musk and U.S. Vice President
JD Vance both follow Crémieux on X. Liam Scott of the
Columbia Journalism Review described Lasker as a "promoter of white supremacist views". He was a speaker at the 2024 Manifest conference. Early in 2025, Lasker was a speaker at the
Natal Conference, which has been criticized for including speakers promoting
far-right ideologies such as
Raw Egg Nationalist. ==Zohran Mamdani incident==