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Rigo:Yeah. I, Issue 2 (May, 1991) Twenty Minutes (August, 1991) He stumbles his way into Harvard but he has very mediocre grades, and he eventually joins the Army, where he works his way up to the rank of Colonel. ABC News Archive on Laughlin:It was called Erbkrant, which means hereditary, defective. 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. Rigo:Yeah. So The Pioneer Fund doesn't really care about the science. Barry:I mean, to this day I can't, you know, tell you what that does to me. Rigo:Why do you think that is? Commercials were cut during the broadcast. It was interesting to learn that they would Draper would send them, like, Christmas presents basically, like literal, like, "Here's $50. In a 14 minute video mailers heard using profane language directed at both his students. 7 (July, 1991) Cross-Port InnerView, Vol. It gets stranger. All this stuff would arrive at my door, you know, and no other name, I just, you know, myself and but, but I was no- Nobody knew me. Is he the psychologist whose work is cited in The Bell Curve? Rigo:The Pioneer Fund only cared about upholding white supremacy. Recently, you were, uh Ferris State University suspended you for publishing a profanity based video. This is so bizarre that nobody will ever be able to take this guy seriously.". Having said that, The Pioneer Fund succeeded in their eugenic ideas surviving. He doesn't actually stay to fight the war with the Nazis, but he brags about his military tourism. He teaches at a college no one's heard of, and he's on a Donahue to debate Rushton. "No, we're not passing racist laws because we hate people who are different from us, we're just following the science." The more citations, the more funding, the more chances to become tenured. I'm sure the teenagers loved it. So up until this point, The Pioneer Fund is secretly funding race scientists who are on the fringes who needed financial support, and a place to publish, like the Mankind Quarterly. Rigo:Yeah. Rigo:Okay. Lisa:Presumably he's not also a race scientist? The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. Rigo: Now, Rushton tries to avoid mentioning the crux of the argument, but Donahue kind of does a translation. Barry:They have their own printing presses, their own journals. He started learning about the Klu Klux Klan, the right wing fascism and neo Nazis, and the thought about this stuff more and more until he reached a conclusion. With Pioneer funding, he produced one of these strange extremist publication after another. High quality topics, the wisdom of his years, masterful tactics in eliciting answers from guests and audience, crafty spontaneous, and at times - well timed pertinent flow of questions and inquiries, not self-opinionated, all these qualities that present talk-show hosts don't seem to have. Respectable scientists and academics were promoting these ideas, which is why Draper starts making friends in high up places in the eugenics world, and he kind of finds an ideological soulmate in a man named Harry Laughlin. web pages Barry:I came across Roger Pearson right away, I mean really early on. I mean, they hid themselves for decades, right, behind the scenes so they don't want someone who's gonna be a lightening rod for controversy. So Pioneer Fund works hard to prop up scientists that they think are going to continue their message, and it gives the ideas credibility in a sense, right, because if they're continuing to get funding then their ideas must not be all that controversial. Barry:You know when you don't want to know? So this guy was a revered physicist at Stanford. The real scientists. Their last known grant was in 2019 to an organization based in Ohio whose president has written extensively about racial differences. I mean, he's, he's this well spoken fellow in a nice suit. Lisa:So just setting the scene again for people listening, we're watching The Phil Donahue Show. He went to rallies and talked to white supremacists. If it is your nonprofit, add a problem It was because I was not a mainstream scholar that I was able to get away with all the things that I was able to, to do, and I did survive. Uh, they had the platform. Lisa:I have no sympathy, Rigo, let's keep going. The white race is absolutely endangered, and the Jews have absolutely control over the mind of Americans. Format Moving Image. Episode 3from the Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race series. It's giving these ideas air, right? Barry:It was apparent to me that we were putting on a show, and that I was part of this show, and I was performing a- an important task for the racist platform because they couldn't do it without me. Not only was the war not over, but the Nazis were still out to get my son. Jensen was willing to take a stand, and he knew what he was doing. ", And in a number of cases, it wasn't even money for the research, it was just money for the individuals, gifts, large gifts of personal checks to the people who carry on this research. WebPhil Donahue Show interviews, 1984 - Archives & Manuscripts at Duke University Libraries Back to top John O'Toole papers, 1954-1990 and undated Correspondence, 1968-1990 and undated Phil Donahue Show interviews, 1984 Phil Donahue Show interviews, 1984 Containers: Box 21 Using These Materials Info for Visitors How to Request Ordering Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Lisa:Okay. They wanted to sue me for libel, and throughout my career, I have been at risk of being sued for libel because, you know, you, you call people Nazis, and, you know, they get upset, and no one has ever been happy that I exposed their racist and right wing connections. Uploaded by Please tell me someone noticed that this was happening. This is Barry Mehler. Actually, this brings something up for me. ". Lisa:I'm gonna pull my academic hat on for a second and say an impact score is basically something that measures the importance of a given journal, so the higher the impact score, the more influential it is, so you measure that by citations and references, who's used the journal and cited it in their work. I mean at the time it was released, The Bell Curve, I, I know was widely discredited by a lot of mainstream scientists. Is it still around? At the end of World War II chemist Charles Phelps Smyth chased down German nuclear scientists and the equipment they left behind. Rigo:Yeah. Barry:I've had a sense of urgency that goes back a very, very long time. If you are concerned about the archival material presented here, or want to learn more about our ongoing work, please contact us at research@hagley.org. In 1967, Phil Donahue left his positions as news reporter and interviewer at WHIO radio and television in Dayton and became the host of a new television program, Phil Donahue Show on WLWD (now WDTN), also in Dayton. His new program replaced The Johnny Gilbert Show, when Gilbert left on short notice for Los Angeles for a hosting job. And not only survive, but was able to, um, make significant contribution to our understanding of what is actually going on. Rigo:One of Barry Mehler's racist subscriptions was a newspaper called The Thunderbolt. Keepers of the Flameis Episode 3ofInnate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race,a podcast and magazine project that explores the historical roots and persistent legacies of racism in American science and medicine. WebDescription: Talk show host of the 1980s. Bill:The Mankind Quarterly is a very interesting publication. They wanted the ideas out but not their name. Barry:Laughlin had the in roads, uh, the contact with legislators, the machinery of propaganda, and Draper had the money, and those two things went together to make Laughlin the first president of the foundation that was formed by Draper. So this is essentially what Arthur Jensen is arguing, you know, why serve breakfast to school kids if it's not going to improve their performance? Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Rigo:Close. Here's money we'll send you. Lisa:Wickliffe Preston Draper. In 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. Lisa:In a way, this kind of makes sense for how academia works. That's how I felt. Lisa:It's also stunning to me that when Barry Mehler investigates The Pioneer Fund in the 1980s, they're still pushing the exact same ideas, and the exact same framing as they were in 1937. Decades later, it still sounds the same. There's a load of absolute rubish. Although it was widely dismissed, it is still cited today as evidence that white people are smarter than Black people, and it's all biological. By downloading this file you agree to our access conditions and use restrictions. Rigo:When Bill Tucker was doing research for his book, The Funding of Scientific Racism, he made a list of all the American scientists he could think of who were promoting theories of black inferiority or segregation, and then he went to the various archives to see if he could find connections between them and The Pioneer Fund. He openly endorsed it. Lisa:It works sort of like a bat signal, but instead of attracting superheroes, you uncover white supremacists. Rigo:So he actually publishes a lot, and one of the things he published was an article in a Nazi magazine. [laughs] You'd probably groan and hope you, like, you could avoid him at a faculty mixer, right? The Bell Curve was one of The Pioneer Fund's greatest hits for two reasons. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. The Science History Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in the U.S. under EIN: 22-2817365. You know, he's a brilliant guy, and he's got these ideas, and after all, he's probably right. The Pioneer Fund was just handing over cash. Is there anything that can get you cut off? Rigo:Somebody painted a swastika on his mailbox. Let me read this. Rigo:So he names names, Pearson, Jensen, Shockley, and its newest Pioneer star, Phillip Rushton, and because of this, he's called onto television shows like the Phil Donahue Show. TELEVISION ACADEMY and ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES are registered trademarks of ATAS. Lisa:Sorry, Rigo, we haven't gotten to the really crazy part yet? Just to give you an example of how this works, the journal Nature currently has an impact score of 40, and the Mankind Quarterly sits below one, but none of this mattered to the people in the Mankind Quarterly. That's an entirely other level of bad. He really started to feel their wrath. This guy is so off his rocker. We were the leaders in the field. You know, for God's sakes, we're feeding them breakfast. And then he has a long and thorough correspondence and involvement with people in Germany both before and after the Nazi ascendancy. Rigo:Okay, here's one. Enjoy! So here is a guy who's wiling to take a stand for racism, and the Pioneer was willing to give him anything to help him spread that news. He was inspired by Hans F. K. Gnther, the Third Reich's most prominent race scientist. All views expressed by interviewees are theirs alone and not necessarily those of the Television Academy. James E. Woods Lisa:Because they don't want to take credit for their deeply held beliefs in public. 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