He is among the most influential talk show hosts whose fans have nicknamed king of daytime talk.He was in 1996 ranked #42 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time. The Special Collections Department collects and preserves rare and unique materials including rare books, oral histories, university archives, historical manuscripts, maps, microfilm, photographs, art and artifacts. 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. Paul: And then writes about it in an, a newspaper article that is syndicated and sent to a number of places around the country. Barry:I came across Roger Pearson right away, I mean really early on. 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. So where does all of this start? Lisa: Ah, charming. WebFrom July 2002 to March 2003, Phil briefly hosted a talk show on MSNBC. Let's switch gears and talk about the bearded guy on the right, who has amazing muttonchops. Rigo:Right, exactly. 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. Lisa:Chapter Two: The Mankind Quarterly. I want my name to be associated with my work. Uploaded by Bill:In general, Pioneer funded two different groups of recipients. Bill:There is this long tradition of academic racism which Pioneer has continued. He fired almost all of the current faculty, and made openings for other neo Nazi scientists. And the whole thing in a way does confirm what Barry Mehler had an inkling of since he was a boy. And you're a Neo Nazi and he added you back. Rigo:So I asked Barry Mehler about the video. What's it gonna be? It's kind of an unfortunate reason for Barry Mehler to have gone viral, right? Some are big name academics at big name universities. Unquote. Rigo:In the end, he did not get sued for libel, but he did remain a thorn in the side of The Pioneer Fund. Search the history of over 797 billion Bill:Usually people wanting their research to be funded take the initiative to contact funding agency and say, "Hey, look. He seems to delight in presenting guests who are anti-war, anti-Bush and skeptical of the administrations motives. 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. on September 9, 2018. 8 No. Rigo:Yeah, and in fact the Pioneer Fund was very pro-active in finding these race scientists. His claim to fame was being an expert witness in Buck v. Bell, where the Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing states to force sterilizations on people with intellectual disabilities. But if you want to go complain to your Dean, you go ahead. Archival of Shockley:My research leads me inescapably to the opinion that the major cause of the American Negro's intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin. Remember, Pearson is one of the founders of the Mankind Quarterly. It's like they were safe guarding race science ideology all these years. All together, he received about a million dollars. Okay, so how did he get involved? I mean, he's, he's this well spoken fellow in a nice suit. During the War of 1870, astronomer Jules Janssen risked his life for scientific prestige and French patriotism. How did people receive this? 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. Lisa:Back up a second. Various episodes of theThe Phil Donahue Show (1976 - 1992). Lisa:All pretty common accusations that anyone who is coming against neo Nazis, even today. 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. I really hope this will be of interest to you." on the Internet. Lisa:Wow, this is delightful daytime content. I'm retiring at the end of this year. He recalled one instance when his grade school son, Isaac, wanted to go play in the woods with his friend, but his volunteer body guard stopped him from going. WebMain address PO Box 25972 Tamarac, FL 33320 USA Show more contact info EIN 55-0711460 NTEE code info Single Organization Support (W11) IRS filing requirement This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N. Communication Programs and results What we aim to solve This profile needs more info. That's the question is, uh, who is funding Philippe Rushton? You've got You have something wrong with that? And so, Pioneer has been the keeper of the flame, in this case. Lisa:Not surprised to hear that they're not just spewing hateful ideas, they're acting on them. WebAn icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. 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. Rigo:In 1961, he co founded a journal called the Mankind Quarterly, and guess who's funding the journal? Lisa:So this is kind of a David and Goliath situation, Guggenheim Fellow versus academic underdog. Bill:He liked to be referred to as Colonel Draper, or the Colonel. 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. Family (2) Trade Mark (3) His deep, smooth, authoritative voice. Lisa:Oh, great. Rigo:And Laughlin was on that wave length. Episode 4from the Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race series. Now, while the video, the language in that video is profane. 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. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Barry Mehler on Donohue:He's got a study that compares Nigerian medical. The collections and research newsletter brings you the latest on our acquisitions, library events, and programs. Rigo:Some of it was just completely bonkers. 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. Be the first one to, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Donahue - Female Impersonators - 1987.ia.mp4, Donahue - Playboy Daughters - 1990.ia.mp4, Donahue The 25th Anniversary - 1992.ia.mp4, Donahue Then and Now - Male Strippers - 1987.ia.mp4, Phil Donahue Show - Adult Entertainers - Nov 1987.ia.mp4, Donahue - Female Impersonators - 1987.mp4, Donahue Then and Now - Male Strippers - 1987.mp4, Phil Donahue Show - Adult Entertainers - Nov 1987.mp4, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). 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. Rigo:Exactly. And one day while he was reading The Thunderbolt, Barry sees a familiar name, William Shockley. What Pearson had done was he brought together all of these fascist intellectuals, academics that had been orphaned by the war, and they needed a place to come together. The Bell Curve was The Pioneer Fund's biggest win when it was published in 1994. It's been debunked a million times but we're still living with the legacies of these ideas. 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. So about the third or fourth show, Iwent out in the audience and it saved us. Lisa:Okay. Lisa:Okay, let me zoom out a little bit. You don't have to apply. Rigo:Right. Rigo:[laughs] Yeah. Jensen was a renowned psychologist at UC Berkeley. Here's $1,000." 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. If it is your nonprofit, add a problem Barry:They have their own printing presses, their own journals. 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He was a member of the magazine's advisory board. Now, for better or worse, these are all facts. He really started to feel their wrath. Barry:Jensen and Shockley were stars, were, were Pioneer stars, and they received huge amounts of money from The Pioneer Fund. Rigo:They are still around. 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 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. He travels to Spain. 7 No. He teaches at a college no one's heard of, and he's on a Donahue to debate Rushton. He's an academic like Rushton, but less prestigious. He doesn't actually stay to fight the war with the Nazis, but he brags about his military tourism. Having said that, The Pioneer Fund succeeded in their eugenic ideas surviving. After the publishing of The Bell Curve, and the controversy surrounding it, The Pioneer Fund decided to step out of the spotlight and continue doing the things they knew how to do well since 1937, which was to mail out unsolicited propaganda to prominent scientists and politicians. 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. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. The opposite, in fact. Barry:I've had a sense of urgency that goes back a very, very long time. Lisa:So they really do move underground. 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. Rigo:Right, and Murray and his coauthor also credited Richard Lynn for providing expertise on the book. Rigo: Barry Mehler's TV appearances made Roger Pearson furious. And on the other hand were the political people who did the actual exploiting. 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. "No, we're not passing racist laws because we hate people who are different from us, we're just following the science." That's how I felt. Sometimes he goes through The Pioneer Fund, and sometimes he just gives money directly. 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? I was the only one really putting together these strands because I was reading the racist newspapers. 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. 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