Wh- why is there all this hatred? Wow, William Shockley. Their last known grant was in 2019 to an organization based in Ohio whose president has written extensively about racial differences. [laughs] And, you know, and he's arguing that you can't boost their IQ by, uh, any kind of environmental changes, which is kind of an absurd argument anyway to make. 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. I'm retiring at the end of this year. Lisa:They just have to keep at it 'til the temperature changes. 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.". 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Rigo:Right. Decades later, it still sounds the same. Barry:They're the ones who are winning. And the thing he had to hide were 17citations that came from a little known journal called the Mankind Quarterly. Whites have fewer sexual partners than do blacks. Rigo:Yeah, and The Pioneer Fund steers their work too. Hope it will be revived. You know? on the Internet. Barry:You know when you don't want to know? Rigo:Why do you think that is? All together, he received about a million dollars. Rigo:They are still around. Bill:In general, Pioneer funded two different groups of recipients. And I wasn't just calling them Nazis, I was putting out a context to show that this was a fascist endeavor, and that these people were not only Neo Nazis, but they were just old fashioned Nazis, and I think that it was one of the reasons why they hated me so much. Rigo:Yeah, and in fact the Pioneer Fund was very pro-active in finding these race scientists. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Is it still around? ", 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. I was the only one really putting together these strands because I was reading the racist newspapers. We were the leaders in the field. on May 24, 2022, https://mytvlog.blogspot.com/2010/03/phil-donahue-show-1970-tv-series-1970.html, There are no reviews yet. What's it gonna be? 5639 episodes The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. Phil Donahue's show started off similar to other shows of its day, featuring celebrities and musical acts, He wrote the Funding of Scientific Racism. And one day while he was reading The Thunderbolt, Barry sees a familiar name, William Shockley. Jensen was a renowned psychologist at UC Berkeley. Rigo:Right. Lisa:Rigo, I feel like you're about to tell me that there's a secret clique or confederacy if you will of rich racists sitting in a basement somewhere funding every racist academic. You see, I don't see it in terms of we're making progress, and these people are on the run. Uploaded by Barry:And he puts this thing together which immediately is picked up by the American racist right, and the networking is incredible. 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The Czech army officers have more conference penises. WebDescription: Talk show host of the 1980s. 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. 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. 7 No. Family (2) Trade Mark (3) His deep, smooth, authoritative voice. Those are the people who are the pioneers. WBBM-TV - 630 N. McClurg Court, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Unquote. If you would like more information, please contact askhagley@hagley.org. 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. Lisa:Why does Phil Donahue have so many race scientists on his show? Rigo:Yeah. Barry:We had DEFCON levels at my house, levels of security. Lisa:So this is kind of a David and Goliath situation, Guggenheim Fellow versus academic underdog. I was right about the cabal in the basement. There's two things that were going on. Barry Mehler on Donohue:He's got a study that compares Nigerian medical. I'm gonna take a trip to each of these places to see, and I thought some of these trips might be wasted because there would be nothing there. Rigo:So Laughlin comes up with their first endeavor. Angela:If, you know, the basis of the study of human difference for a couple of hundred years has been that race is real, you don't let go of it overnight, and so of course they didn't let go of it, uh Of it overnight. Rigo:Of course, it had to be him. 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. What he's just been talking about. And thus not remediable to major degrees by practical improvements in the environment. This is why the book claims blacks are disproportionately living in poverty and also more likely to commit crime. Lisa:The quote that everyone remembers from that trial is when Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Hagley Library is engaged in ongoing efforts to address and responsibly present evidence of oppression and injustice in our collections. Sometimes he goes through The Pioneer Fund, and sometimes he just gives money directly. Lisa:Ah, charming. One, it immediately made its way to the mainstream press, and gave the impression that there was now new genetic evidence to prove that there was a difference in intelligence among races. Their desire is to have a platform to disseminate their ideas, and we would be giving them platform if we allow them to speak to here. And so, they always had first, a, a sense of assurity that they were right, and also a sense of urgency, the same sense of urgency that I felt. She says that this is something anthropologists have been saying for years, that the category of race itself wasn't a real scientific category but race scientists weren't ready to let it go. 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. Bill:I figured, okay. I'm sure the teenagers loved it. Phil Donahue's the video in question is 14 minute long course introduction that he sent out to his students students earlier this month. To check on you officers. Lisa:Wickliffe Preston Draper. I did the math, and it would be like, something like 160 million in today's money, so when I say his family was wealthy, I meant it, like their ancestral home was a castle in Scotland. Rigo:Yeah. 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. Lisa:This is exactly what The Pioneer Fund ultimately wanted, right? At the end of World War II chemist Charles Phelps Smyth chased down German nuclear scientists and the equipment they left behind. Rigo:Kind of, yeah. So I want to take you back to the 1990s with this video that I found on YouTube. By downloading this file you agree to our access conditions and use restrictions. The Science History Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in the U.S. under EIN: 22-2817365. I mean the first thing that comes to mind for me is The Bell Curve by Charles Murray, which was huge. Its run was Jensen's vague ideas about intelligence being inherited were explicitly connected to the growing neo Nazi movement. Lisa:I have no sympathy, Rigo, let's keep going. No one asked any embarrassing questions, you know-. Barry:It's one thing to, you know You listen to, you hear some kind of quote from William Shockley, but then to see a full page, you know, layout in The Thunderbolt, I mean they were just overtly racist, and William Shockley was their hero. Lisa:So tell me about Roger Pearson. We were on the run. I would send in a membership. Play all Bill:Draper guarded his own identity very, very carefully so that very few people knew of who was this, uh, multimillionaire who behind the scenes was putting up the money. Barry:This kind of propaganda, and this kind of advocacy goes on for some time. Here's $1,000." But what Barry Mehler did was to go deeper. WebDonahue: With Phil Donahue, Sammy Davis Jr., Dolly Parton, Debby Boone. Lisa:Oh, great. They made a lot of anonymous donations, or passed the money through foundations and non profits. Rigo:And method number two is hide the funding source. Is there anything that can get you cut off? 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. Digitized material in this online archive may document imagery or language that reflects racist, ableist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise offensive and harmful beliefs and actions in history. Barry:They have their own printing presses, their own journals. [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. Well, the idea of eugenics is basically a belief that the human race could or should be quote, unquote, "improved" by selective breeding. I really hope this will be of interest to you." If you are concerned about the archival material presented here, or want to learn more about our ongoing work, please contact us at research@hagley.org. After 29 years, (26 of which in syndication) and nearly 7,000 shows, the final episode aired on September 13, 1996. In 2002, Donahue was ranked 29th on TV Guide magazine's list of the 50 greatest television shows of all-time. [7] ^ Heldenfels, Rich (2019-01-09). Rigo:In 1961, he co founded a journal called the Mankind Quarterly, and guess who's funding the journal? Instead, they used various combinations. 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. 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. Rigo:Okay, here's one. web pages Just to give you an example of how this works, the journal Nature currently has an impact score of 40, and the Mankind Quarterly sits below one, but none of this mattered to the people in the Mankind Quarterly. Lisa:I appreciate how clearly Barry Mehler gets to the heart of the issue. The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. In April 2017, author and neuroscientist Sam Harris published an episode on his popular podcast called Waking Up with an alluring title, Forbidden Knowledge. That is, until Barry Mehler starts connecting the dots. Rigo:That was Angela Saini, the author of the bookSuperior: The Return of Race Science. 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. Rigo:That was Barry Mehler Lombardo, a legal historian who studied The Pioneer Fund. Suddenly I'm in the suburbs of New York, and I'm walking down, uh, a street and a car drives by, and there's, uh, a, a father and his son, and the son screams out the window at me, you know, something like, "You dirty [expletive]." Hosts: Alexis Pedrick and Elisabeth Berry Drago Rigo:Draper's view stayed the same, but he knew enough to realize that the world's views had changed. The ideology, the quote, unquote, "scientific support for racial hierarchy," This stuff is getting mainstreamed in the 1990s, isn't it? WebFrom July 2002 to March 2003, Phil briefly hosted a talk show on MSNBC. I mean, uh, there's a lot of skepticism, he's getting a lot of dirty looks from people in the audience. He uncovers dozens of academics with double lives. About | Browse this Partner Contact Us TELEVISION ACADEMY and ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES are registered trademarks of ATAS. Rigo:Until a dark side came out. He is an actor and producer, known for Body of War (2007), Donahue (1967) and The Bold and the Beautiful (1987). Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. I have a position at Ferris State University. The book has 57 pages of bibliography, many from mainstream scientific journals, but some of them are far from reputable. 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