This is the Nazis in suits strategy that was so part of their message. This is another clip where Berry Mehler and J. P. Rushton are sitting next to each other debating. By being the first and most vocal critical of The Pioneer Fund and neo Nazis, it made him a target. 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? It was interesting to learn that they would Draper would send them, like, Christmas presents basically, like literal, like, "Here's $50. Lisa:That makes sense. Roger Pearson, for example, had at least a dozen names that he used, and Barry Mehler and his mentor, Jerry Hirsch, help uncover the deception. Episode 3from the Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race series. And remember, the Harvard Educational Review, they published it. Wickliffe Draper died in 1972, but his death didn't mean the end of The Pioneer Fund. Barry:And Ron said to Issac, "Isaac, there are some people who might want to harm your father. It was part of his insecurity, but the data for this was so stupid. Episode 2 from the Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race series. The book has 57 pages of bibliography, many from mainstream scientific journals, but some of them are far from reputable. And, um, my son picked up the phone one day, and this, uh, guy said to him, um, "I'm gonna kill you, chop you up into pieces, and mail you back to your dad in boxes.". No one asked any embarrassing questions, you know-. The political implications of this is that if Black people are intellectually inferior, why bother having a social safety net? It's giving these ideas air, right? Rigo:Right. William Shockley wasn't really producing anything new with their money, and he had a really prickly personality, so when his character got in the way of the message, The Pioneer Fund actually cut him off. A eugenics cabal forms with this eugenics interested rich guy, and we get The Pioneer Fund, and they begin implementing this playbook, but at the same time, they've kind of been driven underground because public attitudes about eugenics are shifting so they want to keep doing this work, but they've got to do it on the down low. Format Moving Image. The result: Donahue, the longest running syndicated talk show in television history with its 29 year on-air reign. Who's funding him? Photo credit to Steve Kagan. They had to have two talking heads, and, and somebody had to speak for the other side for them to get their message out, and not only did I understand that, but I don't think that we run this. He won a Nobel Prize for his work on semiconductors. It's to get the message out, "You can't go through the Jews because they distort everything.". Rigo:Yeah. Angela:And the consensus was set in stone really by UNESCO, um, in the 1950s in a set of declarations in which they essentially stated that race is a social construct, it doesn't have any biological validity, and that was signed by a number of scientists, anthropologists, policymakers all over the world. Lisa:But since this is Distillations, I'm guessing they're not. This is vile and viscous racist anti Semitic stuff, and he finds news there that he doesn't get anywhere else. Rigo:So method three was the most important and consistent. Using stories from sciences past to understand our world. Lisa:Presumably he's not also a race scientist? And it's a label they pin on people and then you don't even attend to what the person said. Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez This was also done to make it seem like there were more race scientists than there actually were. Having said that, The Pioneer Fund succeeded in their eugenic ideas surviving. Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter for the latest 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. So Cox, and Laughlin, and Draper all have a hand in this racist advocacy right up to the floor of, of the Senate, as well as over in Germany. on December 8, 2022, There are no reviews yet. He's unorthodox, and he points out how Rushton's ideas are kind of ridiculous. Actually, this brings something up for me. Rigo:So instead of going to the police, Barry asked his friends who used to be Marines to come live in his house with their guns and their 125 pound rottweiler. Is it because the Mankind Quarterly wasn't as known, like you kind of had to, like, know what it was? Episode 4from the Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race series. 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:Even though his work was only in left leaning publications, the TV appearances were a big platform for Mehler to refute their ideas, but he says that might have been for nothing. Barry:I don't need to have credit. Lisa:Wow, this is delightful daytime content. Find thousands of books, manuscripts, visual materials and unpublished archives from our collections, Lisa:So really what The Pioneer Fund is doing is making bad ideas even worse. So Rigo, you're one of our producers on our show, Distillations, and you've come in with a story today for us, right? Lisa:So on one hand, you have a very bored, uh, very racist wealthy boy, and on the other, you have a rising American Nazi. He seemed to be enamored of his Army experience, and that was his primary identification all his life, especially since he never really had a job of any sort. Unless otherwise noted, this file is provided for educational and research purposes only. And I decided I wanted to become a rabbi, and my father thought that was a terrific idea, and, and I transferred to a Jewish parochial school, and I began to wear the kippah on my head. Eventually, the popularity of this approach proved to be his downfall, Read all. Bill:Shockley was a very difficult person to work with, and eventually Pioneer ended his funding because he was just turning people off that Pioneer wanted to influence. Lisa:Okay, let me zoom out a little bit. Is there anything that can get you cut off? He was also tracking another person who raised red flags for him, someone who was very important to The Pioneer Fund and the neo Nazi movement. In fact, he spent his whole career going after people like Rushton, poking holes at their arguments, trying to get people to see them for what they really are, racist scientists. WebAn icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Do you want to know what else was in Barry Mehler's mailbox? The Pioneer paid for it, but the Harvard Educational Review published it. But if you want to go complain to your Dean, you go ahead. You see, I don't see it in terms of we're making progress, and these people are on the run. "No, we're not passing racist laws because we hate people who are different from us, we're just following the science." Used with permission. It's kind of a fitting name because he was born into a wealthy family in 1891. Barry Mehler on Donohue:He's got a study that compares Nigerian medical. WebDonahue is joined by the cast of "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert", as well as the Family Research Institute's founder, Paul Cameron, and drag performer CoCo So, Lisa, I know that you've done some research on eugenics because we've done other episodes that touch on it. Lisa:Oh, great. All together, he received about a million dollars. Lisa:Sorry, Rigo, we haven't gotten to the really crazy part yet? Bill:Draper guarded his own identity very, very carefully so that very few people knew of who was this, uh, multimillionaire who behind the scenes was putting up the money. VHS Collectors I, I think they hate him, which raises the question for me, you know, he might be this prestigious academic, but if he's not popular, if his ideas are this controversial, how does he keep having the platform that he has? One were actual scientists working on projects that Pioneer though w- would have results that could be exploited for their political agenda. In a 14 minute video mailers heard using profane language directed at both his students. Have you ever heard of Arthur Jensen? Listen to this. It's from an interview he did in Playboy Magazine. Now, while the video, the language in that video is profane. Enjoy! Distillations Podcast | February 21, 2023, innate_podart_900x600x300_episode6_bg.jpeg, Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race, National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom, The American Breed: Nazi eugenics and the origins of the Pioneer Fund, The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund, The New Eugenics: Academic Racism in the U.S. Today, The High-Flying, Death-Defying Discovery of Helium. The more citations, the more funding, the more chances to become tenured. The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. Rigo:Yeah. Rigo:Exactly. And I really don't think that that was a winning strategy. This is Barry Mehler. I'm gonna take a trip to each of these places to see, and I thought some of these trips might be wasted because there would be nothing there. Despite what most people would agree were really problematic endeavors, Pearson did not have trouble finding a job in academia. Jensen on Donahue:The, the white population of the United States score is higher on all kinds of mental tests, not just IQ tests, but every kind of mental test. 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. It's standard journalism practice to reach out to people if you're gonna talk about them. web pages Rigo:Mehler not only sent out his subscriptions, but he was also a due paying member of white supremacist organizations. Donahue's guests are two middle aged men who could really pass as accountants. But unfortunately for Mehler, this was not the end of it. He was in deep. Rigo:Yeah, and The Pioneer Fund steers their work too. And when I say a Nazi magazine, the logo literally had a swastika in it, and then he wrote an article that claimed that Jews had started World War II, and they were trying to exterminate the Germans so they were the victims. 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. Barry:I've had a sense of urgency that goes back a very, very long time. He explains how his journey took him from announcing television news at KYW in Cleveland, Ohio, to working in a bank in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to directing radio news in Adrian, Michigan. They made a lot of anonymous donations, or passed the money through foundations and non profits. And I thought, "Wow, this is terrific." And the second reason why The Bell Curve is so important to The Pioneer Fund is that it had staying power. Bill:Usually people wanting their research to be funded take the initiative to contact funding agency and say, "Hey, look. Rigo:To polite society, it looked like professor's doing some perhaps questionable work on the side, but nothing that would warrant negative attention, but most people weren't really reading The Thunderbolt. Innate Themecomposed by Jonathan Pfeffer. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Uh, you know, I, I don't need to be credited, and if you want to discredit me, they were always able to discredit me. Okay. Sam Harris:People don't want to hear that intelligence is a real thing, and that some people have more of it than others, and they certainly don't want to hear the average IQ differs across races and ethnic groups. Rigo:Yeah. Rigo:It was a journal for racists by racists, a home for race scientists who had been rejected by other more mainstream journals. John Wayne appears on a 1976 episode of Donahue in front of an audience largely populated by women, and he discusses his life, his career, his stint as a singing cowboy, Ronald Reagan, impressionists, pornography, and much more. So I want to take you back to the 1990s with this video that I found on YouTube. It brought together two different groups, those American scientists who were opposed to the civil rights movement, and who wanted to emphasize the inferiority of Blacks, and European scientists who were still promoting the kind of racial hygiene that had been at the core of the policies instituted by the Third Reich. Their desire is to have a platform to disseminate their ideas, and we would be giving them platform if we allow them to speak to here. Lisa:So, and this is really just personal curiosity, what about Barry Mehler? [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. The group behind it bombed a synagogue in 1958, just to give you a sense of who they were. Barry:One of the things that Roger Pearson writes about me in his chapter, The Strange Case of Barry Mehler, was that I mail out my stuff in envelopes and I sent them around surreptitiously to all kinds of people, which is, of course, not true. Lisa:Rigo, I feel like you're about to tell me that there's a secret clique or confederacy if you will of rich racists sitting in a basement somewhere funding every racist academic. Rigo:In 1961, he co founded a journal called the Mankind Quarterly, and guess who's funding the journal? This becomes very clear when you start looking into the citations of the book. Rigo:Exactly, and you know what comes next is that Drape becomes a cash cow for Laughlin's schemes. Angela:If, you know, the basis of the study of human difference for a couple of hundred years has been that race is real, you don't let go of it overnight, and so of course they didn't let go of it, uh Of it overnight. The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. Lisa:I can only imagine what a book with that title is gonna be about. He was a member of the magazine's advisory board. In Silicon Valleys renegade days, a hardheaded Texan chased dreams of a flying car. He accuses Mehler of character assassination, bias, and of being a left wing nut. Um, but most of the money that Shockley got Well, in fact, really all of the money that Shockley got had nothing to do with research. February 5, 2022 by . Is it still around? 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 was inspired by Hans F. K. Gnther, the Third Reich's most prominent race scientist. Rigo:Close. Rigo:And method number two is hide the funding source. Jensen's vague ideas about intelligence being inherited were explicitly connected to the growing neo Nazi movement. Rigo:They're successful in keeping their names out of the press, and no one ties the race science they fund to them. WebDescription: Talk show host of the 1980s. They also share the same funding source. They painted the swastika backwards." His hugely popular show aired from 1967 to 1996, and Donahue won nine Daytime Emmy Awards (197780, 198283, 198586, and 1988) as Rigo:And there's more. He is among the most influential talk show hosts whose fans have nicknamed king of daytime talk.He was in 1996 ranked #42 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time. I mean, uh, there's a lot of skepticism, he's getting a lot of dirty looks from people in the audience. I'm retiring at the end of this year. However, Phil's life changed after meeting Marlo Thomas on his talk show. You don't have to apply. First, on the idea front. Rigo:When Barry Mehler said guys like Philippe Rushton aren't just Neo Nazis, they're old fashioned Nazis, he was serious. Barry Mehler on Donohue:I gave a press conference and he came to hear me and I gave a paper and afterwards we sat down for a cup of coffee together and he said, Barry, you made some excellent points, but this Neo Nazi business, I mean, I know these people, you talking about stand up guys. And I said, Phil, you're in a stand up. Our agenda to port bill Blakemore has been looking into a fairly obscure research fund that has drawn attention because of this book, the bell curve, a fund. Various episodes of theThe Phil Donahue Show (1976 - 1992). Actually, this brings something up for me. And by now, it's 1930s, and guess who else likes the idea of sterilizing people they deem to be inferior? Lisa:In a way, this kind of makes sense for how academia works. 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