Rigo:Right, exactly. They wanted the ideas out but not their name. You know? The Czech army officers have more conference penises. 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. Lisa:That makes sense. Lisa:Oh, right. News archive:Some of the ideas found in the book, the bell curve are not new. Lisa:Ah, the pseudonym journal strikes again. He accuses Mehler of character assassination, bias, and of being a left wing nut. This is Bill Tucker. This is so bizarre that nobody will ever be able to take this guy seriously.". Lisa:Wickliffe Preston Draper. [laughs] And, you know, and he's arguing that you can't boost their IQ by, uh, any kind of environmental changes, which is kind of an absurd argument anyway to make. He started researching eugenics in grad school, and his methods were not typical to say the least. They painted the swastika backwards." That's how I felt. The Pioneer paid for it, but the Harvard Educational Review published it. Rigo:So the Mankind Quarterly was not taken seriously by their academics, and you can see that in their impact score. Rigo:Yeah. 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. Unquote. Barry:They're the ones who are winning. 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. The guy on the left is Philippe Rushton. Donohue:if you're going to present a thesis, which places uh, places are race at the bottom of the IQ. Jensen was willing to take a stand, and he knew what he was doing. I never wasted a trip. Lisa:So tell me about Roger Pearson. I mean, I wish that some of the millions of people who watch that video would, like, learn about his work, his life's work. I want my name to be associated with my work. Lisa:So is The Pioneer Fund involved with Murray and The Bell Curve? They distributed one of Hitler's propaganda films to American high schools with English subtitles. 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. 5639 episodes The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. Phil Donahue's show started off similar to other shows of its day, featuring celebrities and musical acts, Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. 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? He uncovers dozens of academics with double lives. 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. Uh, the Harvard Educational Review article that he wrote, How Much Can We Boost IQ, you know, there was At the time, I was working at little Head Start in Spanish Harlem, and we would feed the children breakfast, and Arthur Jensen was argued, "It really isn't gonna change their IQ whether you feed them breakfast or not.". 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. Richard Lynn was the editor of the Mankind Quarterly at this time. Various episodes of theThe Phil Donahue Show (1976 - 1992). He was a member of the magazine's advisory board. The group behind it bombed a synagogue in 1958, just to give you a sense of who they were. The more citations, the more funding, the more chances to become tenured. 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. To me, it seems like he's trying to present himself as a reasonable, well spoken guy who's just asking questions, all in the name of academic curiosity, of course. 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. Lisa:I feel like you're about to play me an example. This season we're going to talk about how racism and white supremacy have been baked into science , and how it's not about individual racists, or it's not about individual bad people, but in this story, there actually are individual bad people funding bad things. Lisa:Okay, let me zoom out a little bit. Rigo:Right. Rigo: In 1935, before the Pioneer Fund is official, Laughlin sends Wycliffe Draper to a eugenics academic conference in Berlin. And that's one of the things that The Pioneer Fund was able to do was to create outlets so that they could publish, they could review each other, they could support each other, and they could create this sense that this is a legitimate academic enterprise when, in fact, in the legitimate academic world, nobody was even aware that they existed. 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. Rigo:They were very entangled. Rigo:Exactly, and they develop a playbook to ensure their survival. Even though his show was running, Phil also appeared as a contributor on September 9, 2018. So Rigo, you're one of our producers on our show, Distillations, and you've come in with a story today for us, right? Some say, it's just part of his teaching style. 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. This becomes very clear when you start looking into the citations of the book. 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. 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. Lisa:That blows right past yikes into holy crap territory. That is, until Barry Mehler starts connecting the dots. Rigo:The Pioneer Fund only cared about upholding white supremacy. 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. 7 No. They're on the frontier, you know, beating back the wilderness, um, killing off the Natives. And it was a dramatic transformation. While he was doing research in Germany in 1978, he discovered that Arthur Jensen had been writing for a new Nazi publication called New Anthropology. 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. Rigo:So method three was the most important and consistent. Jensen's vague ideas about intelligence being inherited were explicitly connected to the growing neo Nazi movement. 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. Lisa:Let me guess the angle here. Uploaded by 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. Phillipe Rushton on Donohue:Oriental populations have less sexual partners than do whites. 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). In a 14 minute video mailers heard using profane language directed at both his students. 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. The white race is absolutely endangered, and the Jews have absolutely control over the mind of Americans. [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. Phil Donahue Book What is the English language plot outline for Donahue (1967)? In this episode, Harris explains his reasoning for having Murray on the show. Rigo:That was Barry Mehler Lombardo, a legal historian who studied The Pioneer Fund. However, Phil's life changed after meeting Marlo Thomas on his talk show. Remember, Pearson is one of the founders of the Mankind Quarterly. Wow, William Shockley. 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. Barry:I took the racists seriously and I listened directly to them, and what I would simply do is, um, I would join. Especially of the southern, southern states in the United States had this one drop rule. This episode examines a much more overt kind of scientific racism: by telling the story of a racist, wealthy, underground confederacythat has funded nearly every race scientist out there. 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:Mehler not only sent out his subscriptions, but he was also a due paying member of white supremacist organizations. Rigo:Close. The Phil Donahue Show (1976 - 1992) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The Phil Donahue Show (1976 - 1992) Topics Phil Quality varies and some episodes may not be complete. Actually, this brings something up for me. Barry:What I noticed immediately was how important these academics were. the video in question is 14 minute long course introduction that he sent out to his students students earlier this month. Digitized material in this online archive may document imagery or language that reflects racist, ableist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise offensive and harmful beliefs and actions in history. Rigo:So Laughlin comes up with their first endeavor. Rigo: The Spanish Civil War was used by the Nazi's as a military testing ground and Draper wanted to be part of it. You know, so but that, you know, uh, ultimately, uh, I, I don't think I won anybody over with any of that. During the War of 1870, astronomer Jules Janssen risked his life for scientific prestige and French patriotism. That's the question is, uh, who is funding Philippe Rushton? Rigo:Yes, and here's an example of that. Some are big name academics at big name universities. 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. Murray told the New York Times that, quote, "Some of the things we read to do this work, we literally had to hide when we were on planes and trains.". Rigo:That was Angela Saini, the author of the bookSuperior: The Return of Race Science. 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. "No, we're not passing racist laws because we hate people who are different from us, we're just following the science." It's from an interview he did in Playboy Magazine. Rigo:Shockley, and Jensen, and dozens of other academics share more than just dangerous ideas. It makes me think of the Donahue interview with Rushton. 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. Lisa:Wow. I mean, uh, there's a lot of skepticism, he's getting a lot of dirty looks from people in the audience. "I realized during the commercials that these people in the audience were asking better questions than I was. Rigo:Honestly, you're not that far off. Lisa:And in the case of Pearson, if someone did try to attack him, he'd use the idea of academic freedom to fight against it, you know, and, and certainly it seems like he was keeping his Mankind Quarterly work more on the down low and using his other academic work to build a shield around himself. What he's just been talking about. 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. And since these race scientists all knew each other, the journal became kind of like an echo chamber, and they all praised and cited each other's work to give it the veneer of legitimate science. Most of it was junk race science, but some of the research and researchers were arguably legitimate so that if someone accused them of being a racist, they could point to legitimate research they funded. And actually, they found ours a bit too strict. Hosts: Alexis Pedrick and Elisabeth Berry Drago Barry Mehler on Donohue:He's got a study that compares Nigerian medical. Having said that, The Pioneer Fund succeeded in their eugenic ideas surviving. I would send in a membership. 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. Barry:He is eventually recognized by the Nazi government in 1936, both because of his work in the sterilization area, but also because he was a major proponent of the so called Racial Integrity Laws, the laws that prohibited people from being married if they were from different races. 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:I have no sympathy, Rigo, let's keep going. To check on you officers. 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. 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. Rigo: Barry Mehler's TV appearances made Roger Pearson furious. I've never mailed my stuff out, but that was exactly what The Pioneer Fund was doing, and, and it was a, a strategy that they had to disseminate their information. Episode 1 from the Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race series. He knew exactly what they were up to. I was right about the cabal in the basement. Here's $100. So I want to take you back to the 1990s with this video that I found on YouTube. Rigo:Barry Mehler is 75 years old now, and he's retired from teaching. WebFrom July 2002 to March 2003, Phil briefly hosted a talk show on MSNBC. It was interesting to learn that they would Draper would send them, like, Christmas presents basically, like literal, like, "Here's $50. And the thing he had to hide were 17citations that came from a little known journal called the Mankind Quarterly. Rigo:It seems like it's, like, um, kind of click bait-y television for the time. Rigo: So I had a chance to Barry Mehler recently, and I asked him about the appearance on Phil Donahue three decades ago. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents. Rigo:I am, and he starts out telling a sort of funny story about seeing Rushton at a conference, but then he gets really serious. It was very important for them to be able to find a place where they would be appreciated. Barry:At the time, we had been getting a lot of death threats, and so And by the way, I wouldn't go to the police. There would've been no 'Donahue' show without that studio audience.". 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