Lisa:Oh, this is another opportunity for me to go Wickliffe Preston Draper, isn't it? You might get something, but raise that up to 25 million to a really public place where i- it's the same thing as w- wearing the kippah. Lisa:I can only imagine what a book with that title is gonna be about. Barry:And he's endorsed by President Ronald Reagan, uh, right? 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. 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. 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. on the Internet. Unpublished finding aid available at the repository. That's how I felt. And even after his death, Pioneer continued the same tradition, which was the distribution of unsolicited works to various individuals in the hopes that it would influence public policy. Rigo:Exactly, but he does it in a very polished away. Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez Lisa:In a way, this kind of makes sense for how academia works. Rigo:So Laughlin comes up with their first endeavor. How does he keep getting the chance to put these ideas forward? It doesn't care if it's good science, certainly, and you don't have to be the most productive academic in the world to get money from them. Actually, this brings something up for me. 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. There were some consequences, though. What's it gonna be? Here's money for you. Who's funding him? After he lost a key New York outlet and KNBC-TV Channel 4 in Los Angeles announced it would not be renewing the show, he decided to quit rather than be canceled. Rigo:So the Mankind Quarterly was not taken seriously by their academics, and you can see that in their impact score. Don Grady (of "My Three Sons") composed the theme song for the Donahue show. I think it's important to acknowledge that what they're gonna say is intellectually dishonest, and therefor it doesn't provide a better understanding of them or their ideas. So he's not just in academic conferences with Nazis, he's also quite literally on the battlefield with them. What's going on with him? Rigo:So I asked Barry Mehler about the video. There would've been no 'Donahue' show without that studio audience.". Barry:I want you to know that it was extremely important to me to make the connection to Nazis because that's what people understood. And one day while he was reading The Thunderbolt, Barry sees a familiar name, William Shockley. 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 collections and research newsletter brings you the latest on our acquisitions, library events, and programs. 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? The user assumes responsibility for obtaining permission from the copyright holder to publish or distribute this image. I'm curious about how you would respond to that. They are acutely aware that they're talking about the survival of the white race the same way as we talk about the survival of the polar bears, you know, and of the whales, and of the elephants. 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Unquote. 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. historian, very mailer charges that the pioneer funds interest in race differences made the Bell Curves arguments. Photo credit to Steve Kagan. And on the other hand were the political people who did the actual exploiting. He wants us to mention that he has throat cancer, and that his voice is strained. 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. Rigo:So he thought of himself as being well bred, and of good stock. 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. They made a lot of anonymous donations, or passed the money through foundations and non profits. If you would like more information, please contact askhagley@hagley.org. He was a member of the magazine's advisory board. Lisa:Oh my God, I'm afraid to ask, Rigo, but you're gonna tell me. 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. Rigo:One of the people to receive the most money from Draper and the Pioneer Fund was the founder of the Mankind Quarterly, Roger Pearson. Phillipe Rushton on Donohue:This is the thing Dr. Mehler and all my opponents don't have to answer the intellectual argument.All they have to do is start throwing words around like Nazi and racist and fascist. His work inspired others like Bill Tucker to follow the money, and the thing that really stood out to me about Mehler's writing was that there was a sense of urgency. [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. By downloading this file you agree to our access conditions and use restrictions. Rigo:What's interesting about eugenics is that it's a dirty word now, but in the 1920s and the early 1930s, they were mainstream ideas, they were in vogue. It's the Phil Donahue Show, one of the '90s most watched talk shows. Here's $1,000." He was in deep. Rigo:Yeah, and it claimed that Black people were a threat to civilization, and that they should be repatriated back to Africa. He knows there must be more there, and sure enough, he was right. The thesis advanced by authors, Charles Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein in the bell curve is that I Q is the best predictor of a person's success. The book has 57 pages of bibliography, many from mainstream scientific journals, but some of them are far from reputable. [laughs]. I never wasted a trip. And the second reason why The Bell Curve is so important to The Pioneer Fund is that it had staying power. Phil Donahue, in full Phillip John Donahue, (born December 21, 1935, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.), American journalist and television personality who pioneered the daytime issue-oriented TV talk show. MSNBC canceled Phil Donahues talkshow after an internal memo (leaked to the All Your TV website, 2/25/03) argued that he would be a difficult public face for NBC in a time of war. He was an avowed racist, and pretty public about it. Rigo:It was a journal for racists by racists, a home for race scientists who had been rejected by other more mainstream journals. 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. Rigo:Yeah. This We're not making progress here. He's a psychologist and a professor who's won a bunch of awards. 7 (July, 1991), Cross-Port InnerView, Vol. WBBM-TV - 630 N. McClurg Court, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Uploaded by Rigo:And since then, Mehler has always operated under the assumption that Nazis never really went away, and as it turns out, he's right. 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. 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. So Draper he's very proud of that. 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. Rigo:The seed of The Pioneer Fund starts in the early 1900s, with a guy named Wickliffe Preston Draper. They understood that tides were turning but they weren't ready to go away. 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