Search the history of over 797 billion historian, very mailer charges that the pioneer funds interest in race differences made the Bell Curves arguments. And in one of the books that he was writing, he devoted an entire chapter to Barry Mehler. Rigo:Exactly. Lisa:Okay. 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. Associate Producer: Padmini Ragunath His guest for the episode was Charles Murray, who co-authored the 1994 book, The Bell Curve. Scientists pushed back against this hard, but Murray still gets tons of attention from the press, and it gets legitimized. Rigo:Yeah, and in fact the Pioneer Fund was very pro-active in finding these race scientists. 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. 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. Rigo:Right. 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. It was clear that the anti Semitism was everywhere about me. The book has 57 pages of bibliography, many from mainstream scientific journals, but some of them are far from reputable. But unfortunately for Mehler, this was not the end of it. American media personality Phil Donahue is famous for pioneering and hosting "The Phil Donahue Show," later known as "Donahue." You know? Barry:And he puts this thing together which immediately is picked up by the American racist right, and the networking is incredible. And it was a dramatic transformation. Barry:It still is, but even ore so then. 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. EMMY, EMMYS, and the Emmy Statuette are registered trademarks and/or copyrights Of ATAS and NATAS. Rigo:What's interesting about eugenics is that it's a dirty word now, but in the 1920s and the early 1930s, they were mainstream ideas, they were in vogue. By downloading this file you agree to our access conditions and use restrictions. Rigo:While some of The Pioneer Fund scientists like Shockley are public facing, the Pioneer itself liked to remain out of the spotlight. Rigo:And Laughlin was on that wave length. He really started to feel their wrath. He started researching eugenics in grad school, and his methods were not typical to say the least. Lisa:This is exactly what The Pioneer Fund ultimately wanted, right? And the whole thing in a way does confirm what Barry Mehler had an inkling of since he was a boy. So I'm gonna go back to that book in a bit. Lisa:No. He knows there must be more there, and sure enough, he was right. And not only survive, but was able to, um, make significant contribution to our understanding of what is actually going on. He was inspired by Hans F. K. Gnther, the Third Reich's most prominent race scientist. 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Commercials were cut during the broadcast. [laughs]. Lisa:Oh, this is another opportunity for me to go Wickliffe Preston Draper, isn't it? Rigo:Yeah, and he got cover stories in the New York Times magazine, Newsweek, and The New Republic. Barry:One day walking on the street, it was a beautiful spring day, and I was daydreaming, and unbeknownst to me, two boys run up behind me, and one of them just punched me in the back, sent me flying, you know, stars, and, you know, and then, then they run on. The Bell Curve was one of The Pioneer Fund's greatest hits for two reasons. No one asked any embarrassing questions, you know-. A eugenics cabal forms with this eugenics interested rich guy, and we get The Pioneer Fund, and they begin implementing this playbook, but at the same time, they've kind of been driven underground because public attitudes about eugenics are shifting so they want to keep doing this work, but they've got to do it on the down low. Barry Mehler on Donohue:He's got a study that compares Nigerian medical. Bill:He liked to be referred to as Colonel Draper, or the Colonel. Lisa:That blows right past yikes into holy crap territory. How did people receive this? Mehler connected the dots. Lisa:Why does Phil Donahue have so many race scientists on his show? Donahue:So what you mean a bigger brain means a smarter person, Phillipe Rushton on Donohueslightly so yes, on average. Used with permission. He went to rallies and talked to white supremacists. 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. But with the emergence of Shockley, they had a mainstream scientist on their team now, and they funded him lavishly from the quote, unquote, "Throne in New York" As they called Wickliffe Draper's house. He was in deep. So The Pioneer Fund doesn't really care about the science. ABC News Archive on Laughlin:It was called Erbkrant, which means hereditary, defective. Talk about context and urgency, that is what people understood, and that's why they were so upset at what I was doing. 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. 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. When I looked at that, I said, "Here, finally, is a Nazi I don't have to worry about. Search the history of over 797 billion Rigo:That guy went on to become the world's largest publisher of neo Nazi material in Canada. Rigo:And there's more. He's an academic like Rushton, but less prestigious. And here the relationship was reversed, in which Pioneer or Draper would contact these people and say, "Oh, I see you're doing things. And before you try to tell me that he's still on the fringes, listen to this. Some are big name academics at big name universities. Web10 A.M., Phil Donahue, CH.5 Biographical Sketch of Ari Kane Cross-Port InnerView, Vol. There's a load of absolute rubish. 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. Rigo:Kind of, yeah. Let me read this. 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. Lisa:Back up a second. Using stories from sciences past to understand our world. There are no reviews yet. So about the third or fourth show, Iwent out in the audience and it saved us. I was the only one really putting together these strands because I was reading the racist newspapers. 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? Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Family (2) Trade Mark (3) His deep, smooth, authoritative voice. They weren't seeing the things that Barry was seeing, so Mehler goes down the rabbit hole of white supremacist literature, and what he finds shocks him even more. 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. Bill:Usually people wanting their research to be funded take the initiative to contact funding agency and say, "Hey, look. He wrote the Funding of Scientific Racism. There's a cost to negative publicity, and that maybe he's learned that, uh, there is a way of funding the kinds of, um, activities that he's, uh, in favor of without making them very prominent. His work inspired others like Bill Tucker to follow the money, and the thing that really stood out to me about Mehler's writing was that there was a sense of urgency. Lisa:In a way, this kind of makes sense for how academia works. Unless otherwise noted, this file is provided for educational and research purposes only. 1 Donahue - Bob Mackie - 1988 45:40 2 Donahue - Female Impersonators - 1987 45:04 3 Donahue - Freaks - 1990 44:56 4 Donahue - Free To Be - 1988 27:23 5 He was previously married to Marge Cooney. In 1971, he became the chair of the Department of Anthropology and Comparative Religious Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi. I mean, that's some classic, "Oh, at least these guys tell it how it is." Rigo:Until a dark side came out. I, Issue 2 (May, 1991) Twenty Minutes (August, 1991) The Czech army officers have more conference penises. Barry: The Pioneer was looking for scholars who were willing to take a stand, and that's what Jensen was willing to do. Lisa:Give me a taste of who we're talking about there. Lisa:So it strikes me as we're watching this footage of the Phil Donahue Show that the audience is not responding the way Rushton would like them to, I think. He openly endorsed it. He took off his kippah and pretended he wasn't Jewish, and he embedded himself with neo Nazis. Second, it sometimes publishes valid news that I don't find elsewhere." It gets stranger. "Here's some money for you because we like what you're doing.". Barry:This kind of propaganda, and this kind of advocacy goes on for some time. Uploaded by They wanted the ideas out but not their name. 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. The Pioneer paid for it, but the Harvard Educational Review published it. ", And in a number of cases, it wasn't even money for the research, it was just money for the individuals, gifts, large gifts of personal checks to the people who carry on this research. Lisa:Hi, Rigo. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Donahue's guests are two middle aged men who could really pass as accountants. Rigo:So he thought of himself as being well bred, and of good stock. WBBM-TV - 630 N. McClurg Court, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 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 this incident sent Mehler on a path. I, I think they hate him, which raises the question for me, you know, he might be this prestigious academic, but if he's not popular, if his ideas are this controversial, how does he keep having the platform that he has? 8 No. Hosts: Alexis Pedrick and Elisabeth Berry Drago Nobody wants to know that stuff, and nobody is really offended by it. TELEVISION ACADEMY and ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES are registered trademarks of ATAS. So they could see it. Instead, they used various combinations. Barry:And he's endorsed by President Ronald Reagan, uh, right? on December 8, 2022, There are no reviews yet. Rigo:Yeah, and The Pioneer Fund steers their work too. Lisa:Okay, let me zoom out a little bit. The more citations, the more funding, the more chances to become tenured. 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. It's been debunked a million times but we're still living with the legacies of these ideas. 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. Here's the work I'm doing. Rigo:Barry Mehler is 75 years old now, and he's retired from teaching. Their last known grant was in 2019 to an organization based in Ohio whose president has written extensively about racial differences. 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. In 1967, Phil Donahue left his positions as news reporter and interviewer at WHIO radio and television in Dayton and became the host of a new television program, Phil Donahue Show on WLWD (now WDTN), also in Dayton. His new program replaced The Johnny Gilbert Show, when Gilbert left on short notice for Los Angeles for a hosting job. Lisa:Okay. Rigo:Yeah. You see, I don't see it in terms of we're making progress, and these people are on the run. The group behind it bombed a synagogue in 1958, just to give you a sense of who they were. Even though his show was running, Phil also appeared as a contributor Bill:I figured, okay. VHS Collectors This is an episode from the spring of 1990. Rigo:Exactly, and you know what comes next is that Drape becomes a cash cow for Laughlin's schemes. Quality varies and some episodes may not be complete. Remember, Pearson is one of the founders of the Mankind Quarterly. 5 (May, 1992) Improving Our Image Powerpoint Our Sorority Issue 15 (April 1987) Phyllis Frye and Phil Donahue TV Guise Vol. They decided that Jensen and Shockley should work together, and throughout that partnership, Jensen's ideas change. WebPhil Donahue was born on December 21, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Barry:Here was, uh, a guy who subscribed to The Thunderbolt. Lisa:Sure. Lisa:So you're telling me they didn't have to apply for grants, or have funding cycles, or write proposals. 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. Audio Engineer: Jonathan Pfeffer. I'm retiring at the end of this year. Andhe said, I don't understand. There would've been no 'Donahue' show without that studio audience.". Bill:The Mankind Quarterly is a very interesting publication. The Bell Curve was The Pioneer Fund's biggest win when it was published in 1994. The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. web pages However, Phil's life changed after meeting Marlo Thomas on his talk show. 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. 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. Los Angeles - 1985 - Janet Leigh Jamie Lee Curtis.ia.mp4, Donahue. You have a position at Johns Hopkins. 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. And then And then keeping them available as information that can be used when the atmosphere is more favorable to his kinds of ideas in eugenics. 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." 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