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:And since then, Mehler has always operated under the assumption that Nazis never really went away, and as it turns out, he's right. And it's a label they pin on people and then you don't even attend to what the person said. He has been married to Marlo Thomas since May 21, 1980. 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. Barry:You know when you don't want to know? It was very important for them to be able to find a place where they would be appreciated. Lisa, could you read this quote from him? What's it gonna be? It's kind of a fitting name because he was born into a wealthy family in 1891. Rigo:Exactly. 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. Ah, Barry Mehler. Rigo:Exactly. 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. He and I were both reading The Thunderbolt, right? Essentially, it gave racists a cover story. on May 24, 2022, https://mytvlog.blogspot.com/2010/03/phil-donahue-show-1970-tv-series-1970.html, There are no reviews yet. Barry:We had DEFCON levels at my house, levels of security. Uploaded by He left most of his money to The Pioneer Fund, much to the chagrin of his close family, and The Pioneer Fund handed out more money two years after his death than in the entire period of 1937 to 1972. Lisa:What is this, Wheel of Fortune? Rigo:No one has proven that these threats came from The Pioneer Fund, but what we do know is that The Pioneer Fund actually hired a private investigation firm. There would've been no 'Donahue' show without that studio audience.". Rigo: In 1935, before the Pioneer Fund is official, Laughlin sends Wycliffe Draper to a eugenics academic conference in Berlin. He wrote the Funding of Scientific Racism. So, method one is fund scientists who agree with their eugenics world view. Rigo:Yeah, and The Pioneer Fund steers their work too. Barry:It still is, but even ore so then. 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. 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. 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." Rigo:So I asked Barry Mehler about the video. MOO32 The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. Stuff was pouring off the presses from him. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. You know, for God's sakes, we're feeding them breakfast. This is the Nazis in suits strategy that was so part of their message. This was also done to make it seem like there were more race scientists than there actually were. What was striking was the more extreme you were, the more successful you seemed to be in this whole world, and what I found interesting was that you could have, uh, a very mainstream sort of academic career, and then you could be on the editorial board of Roger Pearson's Mankind Quarterly, and nobody would notice that. 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Rigo:It seems like it's, like, um, kind of click bait-y television for the time. Barry:I took the racists seriously and I listened directly to them, and what I would simply do is, um, I would join. Nobody wants to know that stuff, and nobody is really offended by it. Lisa:I can only imagine what a book with that title is gonna be about. Even though, to be frank, it's also bad science. The Bell Curve was one of The Pioneer Fund's greatest hits for two reasons. The white race is absolutely endangered, and the Jews have absolutely control over the mind of Americans. Lisa: You can really tell from the clip that Mehler's getting under their skin. He fired almost all of the current faculty, and made openings for other neo Nazi scientists. That is that your genes, your genetics, determine not only your biological makeup but your character, personality, intelligence level, and so on. The Phil Donahue Show (1976 - 1992) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The Phil Donahue Show (1976 - 1992) Topics Phil You know, so but that, you know, uh, ultimately, uh, I, I don't think I won anybody over with any of that. Rigo:One way that the Mankind Quarterly differs from other journals is their use of pseudonyms, which I'm guessing is it not normal in academia? Rigo:So just to give you an update on what Mehler's been up to recently, I asked him about some hot water he got into, and I'll play you some tape. For example, when I went on the shows, you know, the audience was overwhelmingly on my side. He uncovers dozens of academics with double lives. 7 (July, 1991) Cross-Port InnerView, Vol. 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. So The Pioneer Fund doesn't really care about the science. But what Barry Mehler did was to go deeper. How did people receive this? Phillipe Rushton on Donohue:Oriental populations have less sexual partners than do whites. If you were less than one quarter Jewish then you could be considered, uh, to be Aryan, which was much more lenient than the one drop rule in the United States. I would send in a membership. Bill:In general, Pioneer funded two different groups of recipients. 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So which is bigger, long or fat. This is an episode from the spring of 1990. Rigo:They named it The Pioneer Fund, but sometimes people called it the Draper Fund because it was all of his money, and they funded whatever he wanted. Barry:And Ron said to Issac, "Isaac, there are some people who might want to harm your father. 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. You don't have to apply. 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. 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. Lisa:Ah, the classic he who smelt it, dealt it maneuver. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. They decided that Jensen and Shockley should work together, and throughout that partnership, Jensen's ideas change. Barry's Jewish identity was visible to everyone all the time. Barry:They have their own printing presses, their own journals. 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. Jensen was a renowned psychologist at UC Berkeley. 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. Rigo:Exactly, but he does it in a very polished away. That's the question is, uh, who is funding Philippe Rushton? When you do research, funded research, you're kind of beholden to your funder in certain ways, right? Lisa:Oh, right. Rigo:Honestly, you're not that far off. He's, he's got this letter from the president saying that, you know, he's a terrific guy and you should support his publication. Search the history of over 797 billion You've got You have something wrong with that? web pages He was the first person to really call them out publicly. Rigo:By keeping the race science flame alive, they created a foundation for the current wave of race scientists to build on. 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. 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. on September 9, 2018. 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. Rigo:Right, and Murray and his coauthor also credited Richard Lynn for providing expertise on the book. Search the history of over 797 billion Barry:Here was, uh, a guy who subscribed to The Thunderbolt. [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. Rigo:One of the things that I really appreciate is how he pivots from being funny to serious very quickly, like the humor gets people's attention, and then he sneaks in some truth. However, Phil's life changed after meeting Marlo Thomas on his talk show. At this point, Barry Mehler decides not to become a rabbi, and instead pursues the history of science, and in particular, the history of Nazis and race science. And here the relationship was reversed, in which Pioneer or Draper would contact these people and say, "Oh, I see you're doing things. 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. 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. So this guy was a revered physicist at Stanford. His final episode was aired on September 13, 1996. Rigo:Yeah. Americans were getting spooked by what they saw in Germany. [laughs]. Episode 3from the Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race series. 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. This is Bill Tucker. News archive:Some of the ideas found in the book, the bell curve are not new. The Phil Donahue Show with John Wayne (1976) John Wayne appears on a 1976 episode of Donahue in front of an audience largely populated by women, and he Bill:He liked to be referred to as Colonel Draper, or the Colonel. He was a legend in Silicon Valley. 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 Rigo:In the end, he did not get sued for libel, but he did remain a thorn in the side of The Pioneer Fund. This We're not making progress here. Lisa:So they really do move underground. Remember, Pearson is one of the founders of the Mankind Quarterly. As critics at the time put it, these were old racist ideas with a new coat of paint. on the Internet. These ideas just stay in the public consciousness, they don't go away again, and all the work that he did to expose it doesn't really make it stop. Uploaded by Actually, this brings something up for me. Commercials were cut during the broadcast. Jensen's vague ideas about intelligence being inherited were explicitly connected to the growing neo Nazi movement. All views expressed by interviewees are theirs alone and not necessarily those of the Television Academy. So now my anti racism was, was visible, very visible. Archive of Erbkrant:You find it a specially high percentage of mentally air among the Jewish population. Lisa:Presumably he's not also a race scientist? on the Internet. It's almost like, uh Like a racist Santa Claus. Lisa:They just have to keep at it 'til the temperature changes. 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. 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. 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