Lisa:Not surprised to hear that they're not just spewing hateful ideas, they're acting on them. It gets stranger. The more citations, the more funding, the more chances to become tenured. Ultimately, the Holocaust showed the world the inevitable consequences of eugenics, and there was a great moral reckoning, which led to in agreement about race and race science. Barry:Here was, uh, a guy who subscribed to The Thunderbolt. 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. Rigo:In 1961, he co founded a journal called the Mankind Quarterly, and guess who's funding the journal? Rigo:Yeah. Be the first one to, The Phil Donahue Show with John Wayne (1976), Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). It's like they were safe guarding race science ideology all these years. Rigo:It's called The Pioneer Fund, and over the years, it has bankrolled dozens of race scientists and other academics who push these kind of views. 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. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents. They're on the frontier, you know, beating back the wilderness, um, killing off the Natives. His final episode was aired on September 13, 1996. Search the history of over 797 billion He openly endorsed it. 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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. The American Breed: Nazi eugenics and the origins of the Pioneer Fundby Paul Lombardo, The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fundby William Tucker, The New Eugenics: Academic Racism in the U.S. Todayby Barry Mehler, Superior: The Return of Race Scienceby Angela Saini. 1 Donahue - Bob Mackie - 1988 45:40 2 Donahue - Female Impersonators - 1987 45:04 3 Donahue - Freaks - 1990 44:56 4 Donahue - Free To Be - 1988 27:23 5 I mean the first thing that comes to mind for me is The Bell Curve by Charles Murray, which was huge. Some are big name academics at big name universities. The department is located in UNT's Willis Library in the fourth floor Reading Room. Essentially, it gave racists a cover story. 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? I can't imagine how Barry Mehler feels watching this all explode and then kind of die down and become less controversial again. It was much more prevalent in the earlier part of the 20th Century, but as it has become less and less popular among, uh, the academic mainstream, the few people who still adhere to it are those funded by Pioneer. 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. Donahue:So what you mean a bigger brain means a smarter person, Phillipe Rushton on Donohueslightly so yes, on average. WebFrom July 2002 to March 2003, Phil briefly hosted a talk show on MSNBC. Jensen was willing to take a stand, and he knew what he was doing. James Moll conducted the interview on May 9, 2001 in New York, NY. And I really don't think that that was a winning strategy. It's kind of a misunderstanding, or a misuse of Darwin's theory of evolution, and it's actually interesting that it's Darwin's cousin, his half cousin, Sir Francis Galton, who really advocates for this idea of genetic determinism. And then And then keeping them available as information that can be used when the atmosphere is more favorable to his kinds of ideas in eugenics. Despite what most people would agree were really problematic endeavors, Pearson did not have trouble finding a job in academia. There's two things that were going on. Rigo:Arthur Jensen in particular got more than a million dollars from them. He has been married to Marlo Thomas since May 21, 1980. Published through Distillations, the Science History Institutes highly acclaimed digital content platform, the project examines the scientific origins of support for racist theories, practices, and policies. Well, the idea of eugenics is basically a belief that the human race could or should be quote, unquote, "improved" by selective breeding. Lisa:They just have to keep at it 'til the temperature changes. This becomes very clear when you start looking into the citations of the book. One were actual scientists working on projects that Pioneer though w- would have results that could be exploited for their political agenda. This is so bizarre that nobody will ever be able to take this guy seriously.". 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. 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. Format Moving Image. He wants us to mention that he has throat cancer, and that his voice is strained. Jensen's vague ideas about intelligence being inherited were explicitly connected to the growing neo Nazi movement. 7 (July, 1991), Cross-Port InnerView, Vol. He's unorthodox, and he points out how Rushton's ideas are kind of ridiculous. Funding wasn't an issue for them, they had Wickliffe Draper. Lisa:All pretty common accusations that anyone who is coming against neo Nazis, even today. 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The guy on the left is Philippe Rushton. His guest for the episode was Charles Murray, who co-authored the 1994 book, The Bell Curve. Commercials were cut during the broadcast. People were throwing money at him. It was part of his insecurity, but the data for this was so stupid. He seems to delight in presenting guests who are anti-war, anti-Bush and skeptical of the administrations motives. That's what it was all about, they wanted to resurrect their movement to come after my son. Lisa:Okay. It was clear that the anti Semitism was everywhere about me. All views expressed by interviewees are theirs alone and not necessarily those of the Television Academy. Rigo:They're projecting, obviously. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. And thus not remediable to major degrees by practical improvements in the environment. The Science History Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in the U.S. under EIN: 22-2817365. 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. I'm sure the teenagers loved it. "Here's some money for you because we like what you're doing.". Lisa:So what happened to The Pioneer Fund? 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:I feel like you're about to play me an example. There are somebody who's at the top. Lisa:Back up a second. But if you want to go complain to your Dean, you go ahead. Lisa: You can really tell from the clip that Mehler's getting under their skin. When you do research, funded research, you're kind of beholden to your funder in certain ways, right? Rigo:Right, exactly. Episode 1 from the Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race series. Rigo:William Shockley didn't try to hide his connection to The Thunderbolt. 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. Rigo:While some of The Pioneer Fund scientists like Shockley are public facing, the Pioneer itself liked to remain out of the spotlight. I have a position at Ferris State University. 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. And the whole thing in a way does confirm what Barry Mehler had an inkling of since he was a boy. Wickliffe Draper died in 1972, but his death didn't mean the end of The Pioneer Fund. How did people receive this? There are no reviews yet. [laughs]. I'm curious about how you would respond to that. He recalls how his success hosting the call-in radio talk show, "Conversation Piece," in Dayton, Ohio sparked the interest of the local television station's general manager. Innate Themecomposed by Jonathan Pfeffer. Lisa:So they really do move underground. You don't have to apply. The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. Uploaded by Use science to shield the race science. So which is bigger, long or fat. 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. This is Bill Tucker. McNeil/Leher Report:Race remains one of this country's most divisive topics and a controversial book with racially charged findings hasn't helped the debate. Archive of Erbkrant: You find it a specially high percentage of mentally air among the Jewish population. Lisa:The quote that everyone remembers from that trial is when Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Is he the psychologist whose work is cited in The Bell Curve? Find out all the details of his life I mean, that's some classic, "Oh, at least these guys tell it how it is." Now, while the video, the language in that video is profane. The name calling incident was a rude awakening, but things would unfortunately get worse from there. I mean, it's just like the whole nature of the argument, you really want to take the most vulgar, racist argument and dress it up with the most foolish threadbare data points in order to make the claim that, that Black people have large genitalia and small brains. This We're not making progress here. Barry:I had to really refrain from, um, speculating on Phil Rushton's penis size, but here was a guy who, "They may have bigger penises, but I've got a bigger brain." WebEmployment at the Library & Archives. That's the question is, uh, who is funding Philippe Rushton? Rigo:In the end, he did not get sued for libel, but he did remain a thorn in the side of The Pioneer Fund. So, method one is fund scientists who agree with their eugenics world view. Lisa:Oh, this is another opportunity for me to go Wickliffe Preston Draper, isn't it? MOO32 Here's $1,000." WebDescription: Talk show host of the 1980s. That's amazing amount of territory to traverse when you are one of the leading fascist academic and organizers in the world. About | Browse this Partner Contact Us You have a position at Johns Hopkins. Phil Donahue's Library & Archives Newsletter. Donahue discusses the many controversial topics and guests featured on the show over the years - including White Supremacist David Duke - and details his activities following the final taping of Donahue. Bill:He went on then to become the editor of a publication called The New Patriot. 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. The political implications of this is that if Black people are intellectually inferior, why bother having a social safety net? I mean, I was never anybody really. I mean, it sort of falls under the category of yikes. Lisa:There's no resolution. 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