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. It was part of his insecurity, but the data for this was so stupid. 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. If it is your nonprofit, add a problem Lisa:I feel like you're about to play me an example. Second, it sometimes publishes valid news that I don't find elsewhere." Search the history of over 797 billion It was because I was not a mainstream scholar that I was able to get away with all the things that I was able to, to do, and I did survive. It was clear that the anti Semitism was everywhere about me. Lisa:Okay, let me zoom out a little bit. First, on the idea front. Rigo:Roger Pearson was a British guy who starting in 1958 ran a neo Nazi publication called Northern World out of a British tea plantation in Kolkata, India. Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez Rigo: The Spanish Civil War was used by the Nazi's as a military testing ground and Draper wanted to be part of it. All views expressed by interviewees are theirs alone and not necessarily those of the Television Academy. This is why Barry Mehler was so adamant that white supremacy was such a serious problem. He still does anti fascist work posting on his YouTube channel and mentoring young scholars to pick up where he left off because the neo Nazi fascists are still out there. In this episode, Harris explains his reasoning for having Murray on the show. Stuff. And thus not remediable to major degrees by practical improvements in the environment. WBBM-TV - 630 N. McClurg Court, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Rigo: Now, Rushton tries to avoid mentioning the crux of the argument, but Donahue kind of does a translation. Barry:So I got a mailing from Canada from Ernst Zundel. His final episode was aired on September 13, 1996. 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. 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. on December 8, 2022, There are no reviews yet. Lisa:I really take Mehler's point there. Why would I publish under a pseudonym? 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. As critics at the time put it, these were old racist ideas with a new coat of paint. Use science to shield the race science. Rigo:No. And before you try to tell me that he's still on the fringes, listen to this. MOO32 Please tell me someone noticed that this was happening. Rigo:Until a dark side came out. 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. What's it gonna be? WebFrom July 2002 to March 2003, Phil briefly hosted a talk show on MSNBC. Commercials were cut during the broadcast. Its run was It's kind of an unfortunate reason for Barry Mehler to have gone viral, right? Rigo:In the end, he did not get sued for libel, but he did remain a thorn in the side of The Pioneer Fund. Rigo:Honestly, you're not that far off. 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. Eventually, the popularity of this approach proved to be his downfall, See production, box office & company info. Title of Larger Work The Phil Donahue Show Collection Title Collected Works of Milton Friedman Project records Guest Friedman, Milton (1912-2006) Host Donahue, Phil Publication Type(s) Interviews & TV Appearances. What is this about? Rigo:Shockley, and Jensen, and dozens of other academics share more than just dangerous ideas. I, Issue 2 (May, 1991) Twenty Minutes (August, 1991) 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? And even after his death, Pioneer continued the same tradition, which was the distribution of unsolicited works to various individuals in the hopes that it would influence public policy. Uploaded by Rigo:Yeah, and it claimed that Black people were a threat to civilization, and that they should be repatriated back to Africa. Search the history of over 797 billion Lisa:Okay. 1 No. This is an episode from the spring of 1990. If there was one drop of quote, "negro blood" then you were automatically a negro. Rigo:Somebody painted a swastika on his mailbox. I mean at the time it was released, The Bell Curve, I, I know was widely discredited by a lot of mainstream scientists. Barry:I really got under their skin. Rigo:Yeah. Barry:Here was, uh, a guy who subscribed to The Thunderbolt. He seems to delight in presenting guests who are anti-war, anti-Bush and skeptical of the administrations motives. Lisa:There's no resolution. Hosts: Alexis Pedrick and Elisabeth Berry Drago Barry:You know when you don't want to know? The opposite, in fact. In a 14 minute video mailers heard using profane language directed at both his students. 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. Rigo:Yeah, that's completely right. Lisa:Back up a second. And then he has a long and thorough correspondence and involvement with people in Germany both before and after the Nazi ascendancy. There's a load of absolute rubish. One were actual scientists working on projects that Pioneer though w- would have results that could be exploited for their political agenda. Lisa:The quote that everyone remembers from that trial is when Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Whites have fewer sexual partners than do blacks. This is Bill Tucker. Lisa:He's a psychologist. The Bell Curve was one of The Pioneer Fund's greatest hits for two reasons. And by now, it's 1930s, and guess who else likes the idea of sterilizing people they deem to be inferior? Barry: The Pioneer was looking for scholars who were willing to take a stand, and that's what Jensen was willing to do. on the Internet. Bill:The Mankind Quarterly is a very interesting publication. 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). Los Angeles - 1985 - Janet Leigh Jamie Lee Curtis.ia.mp4, Donahue. 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.". They printed and mail unsolicited propaganda to scientists, politicians, and other influential people. Rigo:Exactly. Rigo:Yeah. Rigo:Mehler not only sent out his subscriptions, but he was also a due paying member of white supremacist organizations. His hugely popular show aired from 1967 to 1996, and Donahue won nine Daytime Emmy Awards (197780, 198283, 198586, and 1988) as 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. Phillipe Rushton on Donohue:Oriental populations have less sexual partners than do whites. Rigo:Yeah. Search the history of over 797 billion He's, he's got this letter from the president saying that, you know, he's a terrific guy and you should support his publication. Hagley Library is engaged in ongoing efforts to address and responsibly present evidence of oppression and injustice in our collections. Barry:It still is, but even ore so then. Rigo: Barry Mehler's TV appearances made Roger Pearson furious. Lisa: You can really tell from the clip that Mehler's getting under their skin. Rigo:One of the people to receive the most money from Draper and the Pioneer Fund was the founder of the Mankind Quarterly, Roger Pearson. 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. Used with permission. 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. Rigo:Yeah, and he got cover stories in the New York Times magazine, Newsweek, and The New Republic. Scientists pushed back against this hard, but Murray still gets tons of attention from the press, and it gets legitimized. Jensen on Donahue:The, the white population of the United States score is higher on all kinds of mental tests, not just IQ tests, but every kind of mental test. He had a much more prestigious position than, than I had. Library & Archives Newsletter. Los Angeles - 1985 - Janet Leigh Jamie Lee Curtis.mp4. WebDonahue is joined by the cast of "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert", as well as the Family Research Institute's founder, Paul Cameron, and drag performer CoCo The more citations, the more funding, the more chances to become tenured. 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. Barry:The word pioneer has a real meaning to these people. Lisa:Ah, the classic he who smelt it, dealt it maneuver. Respectable scientists and academics were promoting these ideas, which is why Draper starts making friends in high up places in the eugenics world, and he kind of finds an ideological soulmate in a man named Harry Laughlin. His guest for the episode was Charles Murray, who co-authored the 1994 book, The Bell Curve. Ultimately, the Holocaust showed the world the inevitable consequences of eugenics, and there was a great moral reckoning, which led to in agreement about race and race science. Rigo:Right. There are no reviews yet. Lisa:Wow, this is delightful daytime content. Rigo:By keeping the race science flame alive, they created a foundation for the current wave of race scientists to build on. I mean, that's some classic, "Oh, at least these guys tell it how it is." Episode 4from the Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race series. This is vile and viscous racist anti Semitic stuff, and he finds news there that he doesn't get anywhere else. Recently, you were, uh Ferris State University suspended you for publishing a profanity based video. Barry:And he's endorsed by President Ronald Reagan, uh, right? 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. So I want to take you back to the 1990s with this video that I found on YouTube. Lisa:That blows right past yikes into holy crap territory. Unless otherwise noted, this file is provided for educational and research purposes only. 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 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. 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. And it's a label they pin on people and then you don't even attend to what the person said. Format Moving Image. WebHost Phil Donahue questions Bill Clinton and Albert Gore, Jr. in the studios of Nashville's WSMV-TV, taking questions from members of the audience including Stacy Harris who 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.". 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]." The Bell Curve was The Pioneer Fund's biggest win when it was published in 1994. Unquote. Signed, photo. 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. Lisa:So they really do move underground. Barry:I don't need to have credit. This is another clip where Berry Mehler and J. P. Rushton are sitting next to each other debating. 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. Despite what most people would agree were really problematic endeavors, Pearson did not have trouble finding a job in academia. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. on the Internet. Senior Producer: Mariel Carr 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. Lisa:Ah, charming. It's been debunked a million times but we're still living with the legacies of these ideas. There are somebody who's at the top. Barry:I came across Roger Pearson right away, I mean really early on. News archive:Some of the ideas found in the book, the bell curve are not new. Rigo:Yeah. I want my name to be associated with my work. 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, James Moll conducted the interview on May 9, 2001 in New York, NY. Those are the people who are the pioneers. Donahue - Phil Donahue : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Volume 90% 00:00 44:06 44:06 1 Donahue - 1972 - Gladys Knight 45:36 2 Barry:They have their own printing presses, their own journals. Rigo:Draper's view stayed the same, but he knew enough to realize that the world's views had changed. Bill:And this was the first instance of what became Draper's trademark, um, maneuver throughout the rest of his life. February 5, 2022 by . VHS Collectors Phil Donahue Show Transcripts | Wellcome Collection. WebPhil Donahue was born on December 21, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. During the War of 1870, astronomer Jules Janssen risked his life for scientific prestige and French patriotism. Enjoy! the video in question is 14 minute long course introduction that he sent out to his students students earlier this month. 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. Rigo:When Bill Tucker was doing research for his book, The Funding of Scientific Racism, he made a list of all the American scientists he could think of who were promoting theories of black inferiority or segregation, and then he went to the various archives to see if he could find connections between them and The Pioneer Fund. 8 No. The group behind it bombed a synagogue in 1958, just to give you a sense of who they were. Ah, Barry Mehler. The white race is absolutely endangered, and the Jews have absolutely control over the mind of Americans. You want to publish if you can in a journal with a higher impact score rather than a lower impact score. 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. And I really don't think that that was a winning strategy. Rigo:Yeah. Barry Mehler on Donohue:I gave a press conference and he came to hear me and I gave a paper and afterwards we sat down for a cup of coffee together and he said, Barry, you made some excellent points, but this Neo Nazi business, I mean, I know these people, you talking about stand up guys. And I said, Phil, you're in a stand up. on the Internet. Innateis made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Rigo:So Laughlin comes up with their first endeavor. In fact, he spent his whole career going after people like Rushton, poking holes at their arguments, trying to get people to see them for what they really are, racist scientists. 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