Human Biodiversity Institute
The Human Biodiversity Institute (HBI) refers to a far-right group of scientists, academics, and others associated with pseudoscientific race theories and neo-eugenics. These theories were given the euphemism human biodiversity (HBD). Ideas about human biodiversity that originated in this group have since entered general alt-right discourse. Origins The Human Biodiversity Institute was founded by Steve Sailer, a journalist who has written for VDARE, an American far-right political website. Sailer has held numerous explicitly racist views. He has bemoaned a perceived lack of white identity politics, and has blamed this on a Jewish conspiracy. The Southern Poverty Law Center has described Sailer as a white supremacist. Sailer began using the term "human biodiversity" in the mid-1990's. The Human Biodiversity Institute was run by Steve Sailer as a think tank in the late 1990's through the 2000's. Themes The framing of "human biodiversity" discourse is meant to confer upon the movement scientific authority, and present it as empirical and rational. On this basis, advocates of HBD wish to advance social policies based on their observations. In a study on white nationalism, the authors describe "human biodiversity" as a movement to "catalog and create hereditarian ideas" about racial differences, and to then distribute