---
title: "Jonathan Anomaly"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Jonathan Anomaly"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-09-05T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["liberal eugenics","Heliospect Genomics","polygenic embryo selection","bioethics"]
seek_code_commit: "a619c8a"
---


Bioethicist and self-described defender of "liberal eugenics," named in a
2024 Guardian/Hope Not Hate undercover investigation as an in-house
academic advisor to Heliospect Genomics.

Matters to this vault as the philosophical voice behind the AI-driven
embryo-selection practice this session's capture surfaced: he is the
academic making the affirmative ethical case for a service — ranking IVF
embryos by predicted IQ — that pronatalism's own advocates (see
[[entity-rachel-lu|Rachel Lu]]) are publicly trying to distance the
movement's vocabulary from.

## References

- [[claim-heliospect-genomics-used-ai-polygenic-scoring-to-rank-embryos-by-iq]]
- [[claim-heliospect-website-redirects-to-herasight-shared-personnel]]
- [[claim-independent-journalism-2025-2026-confirms-herasight-continues-iq-embryo-scoring]]
- [[claim-herasight-cogpgt-2025-reports-new-iq-prediction-figures-distinct-from-heliospect]]

## Updates

- 2026-09-08: Now appears undisguised on Herasight's public team page (the
  successor brand to Heliospect Genomics), alongside a "Join us" button,
  and as a co-author on Herasight's 2025 CogPGT technical announcement — he
  did not retreat from the practice after 2024's coverage; he kept working
  on it publicly under the same colleagues, including CEO Michael
  Christensen. ([[claim-heliospect-website-redirects-to-herasight-shared-personnel]])
- 2026-09-08: The term "liberal eugenics" he uses to defend Heliospect is
  not his own coinage — it belongs to philosopher
  [[entity-nicholas-agar|Nicholas Agar]] (1998/2004), and traces further
  back to [[entity-robert-nozick|Robert Nozick]]'s 1974 "genetic
  supermarket." Anomaly is applying a 26–28-year-old academic term to a
  present-day company, not originating the position himself.
  ([[claim-nozick-genetic-supermarket-anticipates-agar-liberal-eugenics-anomaly-heliospect-lineage]])