The publication of the book put The Pioneer Fund and Barry Mehler on the spotlight. I mean, I was never anybody really. Phil Donahue's show started off similar to other shows of its day, featuring celebrities and musical acts, but he soon started pushing the envelope by discussing health and social topics previously considered taboo. How did people receive this? Barry: The Pioneer was looking for scholars who were willing to take a stand, and that's what Jensen was willing to do. Rigo:Exactly. His claim to fame was being an expert witness in Buck v. Bell, where the Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing states to force sterilizations on people with intellectual disabilities. You know, the only thing I had was the fact that I was able to articulate a context, and a vision that nobody else really had. He wrote the Funding of Scientific Racism. This is one of the most liberal institutions in the country, so when he suggested intelligence was inherited, people got a little ruffled, but that's not a firable offense in itself, right? The Bell Curve was one of The Pioneer Fund's greatest hits for two reasons. Rigo:So he writes a series of articles in the late 1970s exposing people like Jensen, and then in 1983, he writes a paper called The New Eugenics in which he puts all these race academics into context. Here's money we'll send you. And so, Pioneer has been the keeper of the flame, in this case. Here's $1,000." Rigo:Exactly, and you know what comes next is that Drape becomes a cash cow for Laughlin's schemes. Expressing frustration over teaching in person during the pandemic of viewers sent me the video upset about the language, but a couple of Ferris state students stand by mailer. Rigo:In 1961, he co founded a journal called the Mankind Quarterly, and guess who's funding the journal? You have a position at Johns Hopkins. Its run was It was part of his insecurity, but the data for this was so stupid. Play all Is it still around? Eventually, the popularity of this approach proved to be his downfall, See production, box office & company info. So, [laughter] that's how I knew the police didn't do it, because if they had done it, they would have done it right. Laughlin gave them a kind of eugenics spin, giving them a kind of scientific veneer that they didn't have before the Eugenics Movement came along. Germany modeled its involuntary sterilization laws on ours. He teaches at a college no one's heard of, and he's on a Donahue to debate Rushton. Rigo:Okay, here's one. The result: Donahue, the longest running syndicated talk show in television history with its 29 year on-air reign. Lisa:Let me guess the angle here. And so, they always had first, a, a sense of assurity that they were right, and also a sense of urgency, the same sense of urgency that I felt. They didn't really care about the science, but they relied on the science to give some sort of validity to their claims of racial inferiority, and Arthur Jensen was literally a star. Episode 1 from the Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race series. So up until now, we've been talking about the neo Nazi propaganda that Barry Mehler gets in the mail, but what does he actually do with all the information he's collecting? The Science History Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in the U.S. under EIN: 22-2817365. Lisa:Welcome to Innate: How science invented the Myth of Race: This is episode three: Keepers of the Flame. The Pioneer paid for it, but the Harvard Educational Review published it. I had a subscription to all these, you know, Nazi newspapers. Rigo:Okay. Okay. [Description and dates], Hagley ID, Box/folder number, MCI Communications Corporation records (Accession 2225), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE 19807, Access to this item is provided for educational and research purposes only. There are no reviews yet. Barry:I've had a sense of urgency that goes back a very, very long time. The Bell Curve was The Pioneer Fund's biggest win when it was published in 1994. I was right about the cabal in the basement. They review each other's books, they write for each other's journals, so it creates a kind of universe, academic universe within a bubble that outside the bubble, no one takes them seriously, but inside the bubble, they can have a resume that looks rather impressive. Rigo:No one has proven that these threats came from The Pioneer Fund, but what we do know is that The Pioneer Fund actually hired a private investigation firm. The group behind it bombed a synagogue in 1958, just to give you a sense of who they were. Lisa:But since this is Distillations, I'm guessing they're not. And as I got up, uh, a question began to form that really took me really the rest of my life to contemplate, which was why do they hate me? Stuff was pouring off the presses from him. All together, he received about a million dollars. Barry:And Ron said to Issac, "Isaac, there are some people who might want to harm your father. He really started to feel their wrath. In Silicon Valleys renegade days, a hardheaded Texan chased dreams of a flying car. 7 (July, 1991) Cross-Port InnerView, Vol. After the publishing of The Bell Curve, and the controversy surrounding it, The Pioneer Fund decided to step out of the spotlight and continue doing the things they knew how to do well since 1937, which was to mail out unsolicited propaganda to prominent scientists and politicians. Rigo:Exactly. People were throwing money at him. These things meant a lot to him, and he has a huge inheritance burning a hole in his pocket, so he's looking around for a great social cause to pour his money into, so he becomes drawn to what else but eugenics. He was the first person to really call them out publicly. They weren't seeing the things that Barry was seeing, so Mehler goes down the rabbit hole of white supremacist literature, and what he finds shocks him even more. He's unorthodox, and he points out how Rushton's ideas are kind of ridiculous. So I want to take you back to the 1990s with this video that I found on YouTube. WebIn his four-and-a-half hour Archive interview, Phil Donahue describes the meandering path that led to hosting his long-running talk show, The Phil Donahue Show aka Donahue. It's like they were safe guarding race science ideology all these years. He originally thought any difference in intelligence Black and white people were from environmental factors, but after working with Shockley, Jensen started arguing that intelligence was inherited. Enjoy! Rigo: In 1935, before the Pioneer Fund is official, Laughlin sends Wycliffe Draper to a eugenics academic conference in Berlin. Remove constraint Subject: The Phil Donahue Show, American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), East Coast FTM Group Organizational Records, International Foundation for Gender Education Publications and Documents, Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000), Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan, Cross-Port InnerView, Vol. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. This is Bill Tucker. I mean, it sort of falls under the category of yikes. 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He left most of his money to The Pioneer Fund, much to the chagrin of his close family, and The Pioneer Fund handed out more money two years after his death than in the entire period of 1937 to 1972. So, what it suggested was that Draper and Pioneer really took the initiative in every case, and reached out to these people, and tried to subsidize them once it realized that these were people who were doing things that would be of interest to Pioneer's agenda. Rigo:Shockley, and Jensen, and dozens of other academics share more than just dangerous ideas. They printed and mail unsolicited propaganda to scientists, politicians, and other influential people. Rigo: This is a clip of the film itself translated in English. Senior Producer: Mariel Carr Barry:Most people had this view that we were making progress, that everything was getting better, and that World War II was just another move on the road towards progress, and I really didn't see it that way. He still does anti fascist work posting on his YouTube channel and mentoring young scholars to pick up where he left off because the neo Nazi fascists are still out there. Donahue's guests are two middle aged men who could really pass as accountants. Bill:In general, Pioneer funded two different groups of recipients. Some say, it's just part of his teaching style. There's like, an intellectual continuity, so that theory Mehler had as a 13 year old boy, that the Nazis didn't just suddenly disappear, he was right. Uploaded by And apparently Draper was also kind of shy. It's to get the message out, "You can't go through the Jews because they distort everything.". One is that they were enormously important to the racists because they legitimated their views, and especially after World War II, when the Nazis had been defeated, you had very little support for these kinds of ideas. Rigo:So he thought of himself as being well bred, and of good stock. Phil Donahue Book He was in deep. And we just went down a whole list, and, you know, and he confirmed that he was all those people. Remember, Pearson is one of the founders of the Mankind Quarterly. He uncovers dozens of academics with double lives. MOO32 It was the first talk show that included audience participation and ran for 29 years on national TV. Some are big name academics at big name universities. He took off his kippah and pretended he wasn't Jewish, and he embedded himself with neo Nazis. Instead, they used various combinations. I went to the police about the swastika on the mailbox and they said, "Yeah, you know, that's just kids, you know, and look, they didn't even do it right. Lisa:No. This is the Nazis in suits strategy that was so part of their message. Episode 3from the Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race series. That is that your genes, your genetics, determine not only your biological makeup but your character, personality, intelligence level, and so on. Rigo:Somebody painted a swastika on his mailbox. Rigo:Yeah. Various episodes of theThe Phil Donahue Show (1976 - 1992). Every place I went for a scientist, uh, or a- an activist who had been involved in these issues, there was connections between them and Draper and Pioneer. Normally in my reporting process this is the part where I reach out to the Pioneer Fund or mankind Quarterly -which is also still around today -- But i didn't and theres a very specific reason why that is. Barry:Jensen and Shockley were stars, were, were Pioneer stars, and they received huge amounts of money from The Pioneer Fund. Rigo:Yes, and here's an example of that. Rigo:Honestly, you're not that far off. Lisa:In a way, this kind of makes sense for how academia works. One were actual scientists working on projects that Pioneer though w- would have results that could be exploited for their political agenda. Rigo:By keeping the race science flame alive, they created a foundation for the current wave of race scientists to build on. It goes on so prominently that, uh, when this book arrives on the desk of members of Congress, Theodore, uh, Bilbo, infamous Mississippi senator known by his biographer as the arch angel of white supremacy, he praises the book, and he actually takes it to the floor of Congress and reads it while the filibuster is going on to prevent federal law against lynching being passed. You know, he's a brilliant guy, and he's got these ideas, and after all, he's probably right. Lisa: You can really tell from the clip that Mehler's getting under their skin. Lisa:Chapter Two: The Mankind Quarterly. Then I, I trust you believe there are others. Jensen was a renowned psychologist at UC Berkeley. Jensen was willing to take a stand, and he knew what he was doing. Archive of Erbkrant: You find it a specially high percentage of mentally air among the Jewish population. 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