However, The Pioneer Fund and the Mankind Quarterly are not just any other source. WebPhil Donahue Show interviews, 1984 - Archives & Manuscripts at Duke University Libraries Back to top John O'Toole papers, 1954-1990 and undated Correspondence, 1968-1990 and undated Phil Donahue Show interviews, 1984 Phil Donahue Show interviews, 1984 Containers: Box 21 Using These Materials Info for Visitors How to Request Ordering Rigo:And there's more. Okay, I don't want to make fun of the name in case there's somebody out there who's totally harmless who shares it, but of course that's the name of our rich racist villain. It's like Rushton wants to dress it up in jargon so you don't notice how hateful the premise is, but Mehler just cuts right to the chase. I mean the first thing that comes to mind for me is The Bell Curve by Charles Murray, which was huge. Andhe said, I don't understand. 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It's the Phil Donahue Show, one of the '90s most watched talk shows. Rigo:Yeah, and The Pioneer Fund steers their work too. I was a minor academic in a tiny little institution, and Rushton was a Simon Guggenheim Fellow. 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. Especially of the southern, southern states in the United States had this one drop rule. I mean, uh, there's a lot of skepticism, he's getting a lot of dirty looks from people in the audience. 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. Barry:It still is, but even ore so then. WZZM:We begin tonight with that viral video filled with profanity made by a long time Ferris state university, professor. 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:Yeah. I was right about the cabal in the basement. 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. I mean at the time it was released, The Bell Curve, I, I know was widely discredited by a lot of mainstream scientists. There were some consequences, though. Lisa:They just have to keep at it 'til the temperature changes. 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). Use science to shield the race science. The department is located in UNT's Willis Library in the fourth floor Reading Room. Rigo:So, clearly method three achieved the desired effect, to find powerful like minded racists. The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. Bottom line, Wickliffe Draper's money makes the journal possible. Rigo:Yeah. Decades later, it still sounds the same. He was a legend in Silicon Valley. For example, when I went on the shows, you know, the audience was overwhelmingly on my side. Rigo:Yeah, that's completely right. Despite what most people would agree were really problematic endeavors, Pearson did not have trouble finding a job in academia. Lisa:Wow, this is delightful daytime content. 7 No. 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. And it was a dramatic transformation. Stay informed! I really hope this will be of interest to you." "Here's some money for you because we like what you're doing.". 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. News archive:Some of the ideas found in the book, the bell curve are not new. Lisa:This is that method one you mentioned, right? 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. Lisa:Oh, right. You have a position at Johns Hopkins. Archive of Erbkrant: You find it a specially high percentage of mentally air among the Jewish population. Phil Donahue, who may be television's most prominent advocate of that school, taped five episodes of ''Donahue,'' his syndicated talk show, in the Soviet Union last month. He won a Nobel Prize for his work on semiconductors. Rigo: So I had a chance to Barry Mehler recently, and I asked him about the appearance on Phil Donahue three decades ago. Essentially, it gave racists a cover story. Innateis made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. on September 9, 2018. First, on the idea front. 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. Bill:There is this long tradition of academic racism which Pioneer has continued. Rigo:Draper's view stayed the same, but he knew enough to realize that the world's views had changed. 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. All views expressed by interviewees are theirs alone and not necessarily those of the Television Academy. Lisa:So what happened to The Pioneer Fund? Hagley Library is engaged in ongoing efforts to address and responsibly present evidence of oppression and injustice in our collections. He seems to delight in presenting guests who are anti-war, anti-Bush and skeptical of the administrations motives. The father is just driving along proud of his son. What is the English language plot outline for Donahue (1967)? So, method one is fund scientists who agree with their eugenics world view. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. It's kind of a fitting name because he was born into a wealthy family in 1891. 7 (July, 1991), Cross-Port InnerView, Vol. These things meant a lot to him, and he has a huge inheritance burning a hole in his pocket, so he's looking around for a great social cause to pour his money into, so he becomes drawn to what else but eugenics. There would've been no 'Donahue' show without that studio audience.". Lisa:I appreciate how clearly Barry Mehler gets to the heart of the issue. Rigo:So he thought of himself as being well bred, and of good stock. Rigo:So this incident sent Mehler on a path. By downloading this file you agree to our access conditions and use restrictions. 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. "No, we're not passing racist laws because we hate people who are different from us, we're just following the science." Barry:Here was, uh, a guy who subscribed to The Thunderbolt. That is that your genes, your genetics, determine not only your biological makeup but your character, personality, intelligence level, and so on. Is it because the Mankind Quarterly wasn't as known, like you kind of had to, like, know what it was? 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. 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. Unless otherwise noted, this file is provided for educational and research purposes only. There are no reviews yet. This was everywhere, [laughs] uh, while I was growing up. Barry's Jewish identity was visible to everyone all the time. We were on the run. Lisa:Sorry, Rigo, we haven't gotten to the really crazy part yet? Richard Lynn was the editor of the Mankind Quarterly at this time. Ah, Barry Mehler. Now, for better or worse, these are all facts. 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. He was the first person to really call them out publicly. The Price is Right? 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. Do you want to know what else was in Barry Mehler's mailbox? 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. The group behind it bombed a synagogue in 1958, just to give you a sense of who they were. They wanted the ideas out but not their name. He is an actor and producer, known for Body of War (2007), Donahue (1967) and The Bold and the Beautiful (1987). The Bell Curve was The Pioneer Fund's biggest win when it was published in 1994. 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. 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. I would send in a membership. 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. Wow, William Shockley. Jensen was a renowned psychologist at UC Berkeley. Lisa:All pretty common accusations that anyone who is coming against neo Nazis, even today. Barry:When I was 13, you know, we have a bar mitzvah and, you know, a Jewish boy becomes a man, and there's a big party, and, you know, I have five brothers so I'm in middle, and so this was the first time they made a big fuss over me and I was the center of everybody's attention. You see, I don't see it in terms of we're making progress, and these people are on the run. 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. 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. 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. 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. And the thing he had to hide were 17citations that came from a little known journal called the Mankind Quarterly. Please tell me someone noticed that this was happening. 7 (July, 1991) Cross-Port InnerView, Vol. 1 No. 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. People were throwing money at him. I mean, it sort of falls under the category of yikes. 8 No. It's to get the message out, "You can't go through the Jews because they distort everything.". And I couldn't give a flying any longer and to the administration and no limit of an administrator is going to tell me how to teach my classes because I'm a tenured professor. Many of this seasons stories talk about racism in terms of how its systemicbaked into science and medicine in subtle ways. You don't have to apply. Rigo:Exactly. Not only was the war not over, but the Nazis were still out to get my son. Rigo:Of course, it had to be him. Rigo:That guy went on to become the world's largest publisher of neo Nazi material in Canada. As critics at the time put it, these were old racist ideas with a new coat of paint. And so you know where his head's at. Rigo:Yeah. Rigo:It seems like it's, like, um, kind of click bait-y television for the time. McNeil/Leher Report:What has landed the bell curve on the cover of many magazines and Charles Murray on numerous talk shows is that the book also links IQ with race on Mary's bell curve of IQ scores, blacks as a group have an average IQ of 85 whites, 100 Asians, 105. Quality varies and some episodes may not be complete. That is, until Barry Mehler starts connecting the dots. 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. Los Angeles - 1985 - Janet Leigh Jamie Lee Curtis.mp4, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). So where does all of this start? Those are the people who are the pioneers. Barry:It was apparent to me that we were putting on a show, and that I was part of this show, and I was performing a- an important task for the racist platform because they couldn't do it without me. I mean, he was a Guggenheim Fellow, so this guy's very prestigious, and he's come to Donahue to mouth off theories about biological differences between racial groups. Rigo:So I asked Barry Mehler about the video. You know, he's a brilliant guy, and he's got these ideas, and after all, he's probably right. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Rigo:Yeah. He really started to feel their wrath. This is the Nazis in suits strategy that was so part of their message. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Some say, it's just part of his teaching style. Whites have fewer sexual partners than do blacks. Rigo:Until a dark side came out. It's giving these ideas air, right? How does he keep getting the chance to put these ideas forward? Rigo: In 1935, before the Pioneer Fund is official, Laughlin sends Wycliffe Draper to a eugenics academic conference in Berlin. Rigo:Some of it was just completely bonkers. 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.". Even though his show was running, Phil also appeared as a contributor Even though, to be frank, it's also bad science. Lisa:So this is kind of a David and Goliath situation, Guggenheim Fellow versus academic underdog. Can you give us TLDR synopsis of it? The collections and research newsletter brings you the latest on our acquisitions, library events, and programs. He was in deep. This becomes very clear when you start looking into the citations of the book. 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. 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. This is why the book claims blacks are disproportionately living in poverty and also more likely to commit crime. Was, uh, a guy who subscribed to the heart of the book claims blacks are disproportionately living poverty. 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