Eric Rasmusen is an American economist and former Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at Indiana University Bloomington.
[2] In November 2019, Rasmusen was criticized by his university after a popular Twitter account posted a screenshot of one of his tweets that was characterized as "racist, sexist, and homophobic.
"[3] Rasmusen had retweeted an article titled "Are Women Destroying Academia?
Probably" with a quote: "geniuses are overwhelmingly male because they combine outlier IQ with moderately low Agreeableness and Moderately low Conscientiousness.
[4] Rasmusen posted a rebuttal to his personal website, in which he defended his Twitter activity and argued that he was being silenced for "dissident" beliefs.