Lisa:Wow, this is delightful daytime content. They understood that tides were turning but they weren't ready to go away. 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. He travels to Spain. All together, he received about a million dollars. 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. Barry:I took the racists seriously and I listened directly to them, and what I would simply do is, um, I would join. He's unorthodox, and he points out how Rushton's ideas are kind of ridiculous. Rigo:So method three was the most important and consistent. He wrote the Funding of Scientific Racism. Rigo: In 1935, before the Pioneer Fund is official, Laughlin sends Wycliffe Draper to a eugenics academic conference in Berlin. 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. Ironically, the Third Reich thought that this was too extreme for them, and so they didn't use the one drop of Jewish blood made you Jewish. Additional musicbyBlue Dot Sessions. Photo credit to Steve Kagan. Lisa:Sorry, Rigo, we haven't gotten to the really crazy part yet? Rigo: Now, Rushton tries to avoid mentioning the crux of the argument, but Donahue kind of does a translation. I never wasted a trip. Eventually, the popularity of this approach proved to be his downfall, See production, box office & company info. Rigo:Yes, and here's an example of that. They distributed one of Hitler's propaganda films to American high schools with English subtitles. Richard Lynn was the editor of the Mankind Quarterly at this time. It's kind of a fitting name because he was born into a wealthy family in 1891. Unless otherwise noted, this file is provided for educational and research purposes only. Lisa:So is The Pioneer Fund involved with Murray and The Bell Curve? 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. He was a legend in Silicon Valley. "I realized during the commercials that these people in the audience were asking better questions than I was. Lisa:So basically Mehler's kitchen table would have been filled with racist propaganda hate mail 24/7 365? What's going on with him? He accuses Mehler of character assassination, bias, and of being a left wing nut. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Search the history of over 797 billion Lisa:That makes sense. Rigo:Exactly. The Pioneer Fund was just handing over cash. So now my anti racism was, was visible, very visible. I mean, I was never anybody really important. Rigo:They're projecting, obviously. 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. He's even polished when he starts talking about things like sex. And remember, the Harvard Educational Review, they published it. Barry:It still is, but even ore so then. So they could see it. 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. At the end of World War II chemist Charles Phelps Smyth chased down German nuclear scientists and the equipment they left behind. WebBest List of Phil Donahue Shows Tarantos Turf 67 videos 7,939 views Last updated on Jun 4, 2022 Dr Khalid,David Duke, Farrakhan,Rush Limbaugh ,WWF and lots more. WBBM-TV - 630 N. McClurg Court, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Stuff. Use science to shield the race science. Find out all the details of his life Rigo:Yeah, and it claimed that Black people were a threat to civilization, and that they should be repatriated back to Africa. The worst thing they could do would be to harm you, and I'm here to make sure that doesn't happen, so for now, you just We have to stick together.". And you're a Neo Nazi and he added you back. Barry:You know when you don't want to know? The book has 57 pages of bibliography, many from mainstream scientific journals, but some of them are far from reputable. Who's funding him? Can you give us TLDR synopsis of it? Rigo:Mehler not only sent out his subscriptions, but he was also a due paying member of white supremacist organizations. This is why Barry Mehler was so adamant that white supremacy was such a serious problem. Okay, so how did he get involved? To check on you officers. Mehler connected the dots. The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. Lisa:There's no resolution. Jensen was willing to take a stand, and he knew what he was doing. Rigo:So the Mankind Quarterly was not taken seriously by their academics, and you can see that in their impact score. 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. First, on the idea front. Jensen was a renowned psychologist at UC Berkeley. WebDescription: Talk show host of the 1980s. You want to publish if you can in a journal with a higher impact score rather than a lower impact score. 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. 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. Is this a secret conspiracy, or is any of it happening in the open? 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. Here's money we'll send you. Barry:I don't need to have credit. Many of this seasons stories talk about racism in terms of how its systemicbaked into science and medicine in subtle ways. This is why the book claims blacks are disproportionately living in poverty and also more likely to commit crime. He doesn't actually stay to fight the war with the Nazis, but he brags about his military tourism. When I looked at that, I said, "Here, finally, is a Nazi I don't have to worry about. Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez Lisa:The quote that everyone remembers from that trial is when Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." 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. Uh, they had the platform. So the short story is that for Barry Mehler, all of this is personal, so when I ask him how he fell into this work, he took me back to his childhood in 1960s New York, where he was just a regular Jewish kid. Lisa:So tell me about Roger Pearson. Lisa: Okay. on the Internet. 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. In 1936, Draper paid to reprint 1,000 copies of the book called White America to send to politicians. The user assumes responsibility for obtaining permission from the copyright holder to publish or distribute this image. What he's just been talking about. Lisa:Chapter Two: The Mankind Quarterly. Having said that, The Pioneer Fund succeeded in their eugenic ideas surviving. web pages Rigo:To polite society, it looked like professor's doing some perhaps questionable work on the side, but nothing that would warrant negative attention, but most people weren't really reading The Thunderbolt. Rigo:Yeah, and in fact the Pioneer Fund was very pro-active in finding these race scientists. It's from an interview he did in Playboy Magazine. Barry's Jewish identity was visible to everyone all the time. If you would like more information, please contact askhagley@hagley.org. Lisa:Okay. Wh- why is there all this hatred? 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. Lisa:Oh, this is another opportunity for me to go Wickliffe Preston Draper, isn't it? He had his own moment on the Phil Donahue Show in 1980. Lisa:I feel like you're about to play me an example. 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:Honestly, you're not that far off. Rigo:So, clearly method three achieved the desired effect, to find powerful like minded racists. 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. 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. They decided that Jensen and Shockley should work together, and throughout that partnership, Jensen's ideas change. That is, until Barry Mehler starts connecting the dots. So I'm gonna go back to that book in a bit. Rigo:So he writes a series of articles in the late 1970s exposing people like Jensen, and then in 1983, he writes a paper called The New Eugenics in which he puts all these race academics into context. The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. You know, he's a brilliant guy, and he's got these ideas, and after all, he's probably right. 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