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Pioneer Fund

The Pioneer Fund is an American non-profit foundation established in 1937 "to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences". The organization has been described as racist and white supremacist in nature.[2][3][4][5] The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies the Pioneer Fund as a hate group.[6][7] One of its first projects was to fund the distribution in US churches and schools of Erbkrank, a Nazi propaganda film about eugenics.[8]

Pioneer Fund
FormationMarch 11, 1937
FounderWickliffe Preston Draper
TypeNonprofit foundation
Focus
HeadquartersNew York City, U.S.[1]
Director
Richard Lynn
Director
Gerhard Meisenberg
Key people

From 2002 until his death in October 2012, the Pioneer Fund was headed by psychology professor J. Philippe Rushton, who was succeeded by Richard Lynn.[9][10]

Two of the best known studies funded by Pioneer Fund are the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart[11] and the Texas Adoption Project, which studied the similarities and differences of identical twins and other children adopted into non-biological families.

Research backed by the fund on race and intelligence has generated controversy and criticism. One prominent example is the 1994 book The Bell Curve, which drew heavily from Pioneer-funded research.[12][13] The fund also has ties to eugenics,[14] and has both current and former links to white supremacist publications such as American Renaissance and Mankind Quarterly.

History edit

Pioneer Fund was incorporated on March 11, 1937. The incorporation documents of the Pioneer Fund list two purposes. The first, modeled on the Nazi Lebensborn breeding program,[15] was aimed at encouraging the propagation of those "descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original thirteen states prior to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States and/or from related stocks, or to classes of children, the majority of whom are deemed to be so descended". Its second purpose was to support academic research and the "dissemination of information, into the 'problem of heredity and eugenics'" and "the problems of race betterment".[16] The Pioneer Fund argues the "race betterment" has always referred to the "human race" referred to earlier in the sentence, and critics argue it referred to racial groups. The document was amended in 1985 and the phrase changed to "human race betterment."[12]

The first five directors were Wickliffe Preston Draper, Harry Laughlin, Frederick Osborn, Malcolm Donald and John Marshall Harlan II.

Wickliffe Preston Draper edit

Wickliffe Preston Draper, the fund's de facto final authority, served on the board of directors from 1937 until 1972. He founded Pioneer Fund after having acquired an interest in the Eugenics movement, which was strengthened by his 1935 visit to Nazi Germany, where he met with the leading eugenicists of the Third Reich who used the inspiration from the American movement as a basis for the Nuremberg Laws. He served in the British army at the beginning of World War I, transferring to the US Army as the Americans entered the war. During World War II, he was stationed as an intelligence officer in India.[17]

Draper secretly met C. Nash Herndon of Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University in 1949. Little is known about their meetings, but Herndon was playing a major role in the expansion of the compulsory sterilization program in North Carolina.[18]

Psychology professor William H. Tucker describes Draper as someone who "aside from his brief periods of military service ... never pursued a profession or held a job of any kind."[3] According to a 1960 article in The Nation, an unnamed geneticist said Draper told him he "wished to prove simply that Negroes were inferior."[19] Draper funded advocacy of repatriation of black people to Africa.[20][21]

Founding members edit

Harry Laughlin was the director of the Eugenics Record Office at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, New York. He served as the president of Pioneer Fund from its inception until 1941. He opposed miscegenation and had proposed a research agenda to assist in the enforcement of Southern "race integrity laws" by developing techniques for identifying the "pass-for-white" person who might "successfully hide all of his black blood".[3] He singled out Jews and fought efforts to allow entry into the United States to Jewish refugees fleeing from Nazi Germany.[17] Eleven months after the enactment of the Nuremberg Laws, Laughlin wrote to an official at the University of Heidelberg (which had awarded him an honorary doctorate) that the United States and the Third Reich shared "a common understanding of ... the practical application" of eugenic principles to "racial endowments and ... racial health."[3]

Frederick Osborn wrote in 1937 that the Nazi Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring was "the most exciting experiment that had ever been tried".[22][16] Osborn was the secretary of the American Eugenics Society, which was part of an accepted and active field at the time; the chairman of the Advisory Committee on Selective Service during World War II; and later the deputy US representative to the UN Atomic Energy Commission.

Malcolm Donald was the Draper family lawyer and trustee of the Draper estate. He was a former editor of the Harvard Law Review and a brigadier general during World War II.

John Marshall Harlan II, whose firm had done legal work for the Pioneer Fund. He was the only director whose name did not appear on the incorporation papers. He was director of operational analysis for the Eighth Air Force in World War II, and was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He voted for the decision in Brown v. Board of Education as a member of the Supreme Court and his grandfather was the only dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, reversed by the decision. He dissented in Swain v. Alabama and Miranda v. Arizona.

History after 1945 edit

Corporate lawyer Harry F. Weyher Jr. was president of the Pioneer Fund from 1958 until his death in 2002.[23]

Following Jesse Helms's 1984 Senate re-election bid, The Washington Post journalists Thomas B. Edsall and David A. Vise reported that both Helms and Thomas F. Ellis were linked to the Pioneer Fund, which was described as having "financed research into 'racial betterment' by scientists seeking to prove that blacks are genetically inferior to whites."[24]: A16 1 

Later directors included Marion A. Parrott (1973–2000),[25] J. Philippe Rushton, Richard Lynn and Gerhard Meisenberg (as of 2019).[26]

Rushton, who headed Pioneer until 2012, spoke at conferences of the American Renaissance (AR) magazine, in which he has also published articles.[27] Anti-racist Searchlight magazine described one such AR conference as a "veritable 'who's who' of American white supremacy."[28]

Political, publishing and legal funding edit

The Pioneer Fund was described by the London Sunday Telegraph (March 12, 1989) as a "neo-Nazi organization closely integrated with the far right in American politics."[29]

The Pioneer Fund supported the distribution of a eugenics film titled Erbkrank ("Hereditary Defective" or "Hereditary Illness") which was published by the pre-war 1930s Nazi Party. William Draper obtained the film from the predecessor to the Nazi Office of Racial Policy (Rassenpolitisches Amt) prior to the founding of the Pioneer Fund.[3] According to the Pioneer Fund site, all founders capable of doing so participated in the war against the Nazis.[30]

In the 1950s and 1960s, the fund supported two government committees that gave grants for both anti-immigration and genetics research. The committee members included Representative Francis E. Walter (chair of the House Un-American Activities Committee and head of the Draper Immigration Committee), Henry E. Garrett (a White Citizens Council member[31] and educator known for his belief in the genetic inferiority of blacks), and Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi, head of the Draper Genetics Committee.[32] Draper also made large financial contributions to efforts to oppose the American Civil Rights Movement and the racial desegregation mandated by Brown v. Board of Education, such as $215,000 to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission in 1963.[3]

As of 1994, the Pioneer Fund distributed more than $1 million per year to academics.[31] Hampton University sociology professor Steven J. Rosenthal described the fund in 1995 as a "Nazi endowment specializing in production of justifications for eugenics since 1937, the Pioneer Fund is embedded in a network of right-wing foundations, think tanks, religious fundamentalists, and global anti-Communist coalitions".[33]

In 2002, William H. Tucker criticized the fund's grant-funding techniques:

Pioneer's administrative procedures are as unusual as its charter. Although the fund typically gives away more than half a million dollars per year, there is no application form or set of guidelines. Instead, according to Weyher, an applicant merely submits "a letter containing a brief description of the nature of the research and the amount of the grant requested." There is no requirement for peer review of any kind; Pioneer's board of directors – two attorneys, two engineers, and an investment broker – decides, sometimes within a day, whether a particular research proposal merits funding. Once the grant has been made, there is no requirement for an interim or final report or even for an acknowledgment by a grantee that Pioneer has been the source of support, all atypical practices in comparison to other organizations that support scientific research.[3]

In accord with the tax regulations governing nonprofit corporations, Pioneer does not fund individuals; under the law only other nonprofit organizations are appropriate grantees. As a consequence, many of the fund's awards go not to the researchers themselves but to the universities that employ them, a standard procedure for supporting work by scientists affiliated to academic institutions. In addition to these awards to the universities where its grantees are based, Pioneer has made a number of grants to other nonprofit organizations and corporations that have been created to channel resources to a particular academic recipient while circumventing the institution where the researcher is employed.[3][34]

The Southern Poverty Law Center listed the Pioneer Fund as a hate group in 2003, citing the fund's history, its funding of race and intelligence research, and its connections with racist individuals.[6][7]

In 2006, the Center for New Community, a human rights advocacy organization, characterize the Pioneer Fund as "a white supremacist foundation that specializes in funding 'science' dedicated to demonstrating white intellectual and moral superiority." They draw particular attention to Rushton's theories about differences between races as evidence of the racial slant which they claim accompanies much of the research which is backed by the Fund.[35]

Recipients of funding edit

Pioneer Fund's figures are from 1971 to 1996 and are adjusted to 1997 USD.[36]

Many of the researchers whose findings support the hereditarian hypothesis of racial IQ disparity have received grants of varying sizes from the Pioneer Fund.[37] Large grantees, in order of amount received, are:

  • Thomas J. Bouchard at the University of Minnesota.[38]
  • Arthur Jensen at the University of California, Berkeley ($1,096,094 as of 1994).[31]
  • J. Philippe Rushton at the University of Western Ontario was head of the fund from 2002 to his death in 2012. In 1999, Rushton used some of his grant money from the Pioneer Fund to send out tens of thousands of copies of an abridged version of his book Race, Evolution and Behavior to social scientists in anthropology, psychology, and sociology, causing a controversy.[39] Tax records from 2000 show that his Charles Darwin Institute received $473,835 – 73% of that year's grants.[40]
  • Roger Pearson at the Institute for the Study of Man: eugenicist[citation needed] and anthropologist, founder of the Journal of Indo-European Studies,[41] received over a million dollars in grants in the 1980s and 1990s.[3][37] Using the pseudonym of Stephan Langton, Pearson was the editor of The New Patriot, a short-lived magazine published in 1966–67 to conduct "a responsible but penetrating inquiry into every aspect of the Jewish Question", which included articles such as "Zionists and the Plot Against South Africa", "Early Jews and the Rise of Jewish Money Power", and "Swindlers of the Crematoria".[37] The Northern League, an organization founded in England in 1958 by Pearson, supported Nazi ideologies and included former members of the Nazi Party.[3]
  • Michael Levin of the City College of New York ($124,500 as of 1994)[31]
  • Richard Lynn at Ulster Institute for Social Research ($325,000 as of 1994)[31]
  • Linda Gottfredson at the University of Delaware ($267,000 as of 1994)[31]

Other notable recipients of funding include:

  • Hans Eysenck, the most-cited living psychologist at the time of his death (1997), known for fraudulent work financed by the tobacco industry [42][43], and also believing in parapsychology and astrology[44].
  • Lloyd Humphreys
  • Joseph M. Horn
  • Robert A. Gordon ($214,000 as of 1994)[31]
  • Garrett Hardin, author who in 1968 re-popularized the 1833 phrase "tragedy of the commons" ($29,000 as of 1994)[31]
  • R. Travis Osborne ($386,900 as of 1994)[31]
  • Audrey M. Shuey, author of The Testing of Negro Intelligence (1958)
  • Philip A. Vernon
  • William Shockley, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956, received a series of grants in the 1970s. Shockley had become notorious in his later career for promoting the controversial genetic hypothesis of racial intelligence differences and for being a proponent of eugenics. ($188,900)[31]
  • Aurelio José Figueredo, as of 2018, the only academic researcher receiving funding from the Pioneer Fund. According to the Associated Press, from 2003 to 2016 Figueredo received $458,000. Figueredo received between $8,000 and $30,000 for the 2017–2018 academic year, his research assistant Michael Woodley is also involved with the Pioneer Fund.[10][45][46]
  • Seymour Itzkoff: the Pioneer Fund approved a $12,000 grant to Smith College "to assist in the publication of a series of educational books", in support of Itzkoff's Evolution of Intelligence series. It also approved a $12,000 grant to be distributed in 1987 to assist in the publication of the series.)[47]

The fund gave the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) a total of $1.3 million between 1985 and 1994.[48] Among the grants was $150,000 for "studies in connection with immigration policies".[17] Funding was dropped after negative publicity during the campaign for California's Proposition 187 linked the Pioneer Fund to ads purchased by FAIR.[49][50] Other immigration reduction groups that have received donations from the Pioneer Fund include ProjectUSA[51] and American Immigration Control Foundation.[52]

One of the grantees is the paleoconservative and white supremacist journalist Jared Taylor, the editor of American Renaissance and a member the advisory board of the white nationalist publication the Occidental Quarterly. Another is Roger Pearson's Institute for the Study of Man.[6] Many of the key academic white nationalists in both Right Now! and American Renaissance have been funded by the Pioneer Fund, which was also directly involved in funding the parent organization of American Renaissance, the New Century Foundation.[37]

Founder Wickliffe Draper secretly funded the 1960 launch of Mankind Quarterly, to clandestinely serve as a publishing arm for its segregationist founders.[53]

See also edit

Notes edit

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  2. ^ John P., Jackson Jr.; Winston, Andrew S. (October 7, 2020). "The Mythical Taboo on Race and Intelligence". Review of General Psychology. 25 (1). We refer to the five decades of careful, archival investigations documenting the involvement of psychologists and the Pioneer Fund with the campaign to overturn the Brown decision and preserve segregation, anti-immigration activism, and active involvement with neo-Nazi groups.
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    • Diane B. Paul (Winter 2003). "The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund (review)". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 77 (4): 972–974. doi:10.1353/bhm.2003.0186. S2CID 58477478.
  4. ^ Wroe, Andrew (2008). The Republican party and immigration politics: from Proposition 187 to George W. Bush. Springer. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-230-61108-5.
  5. ^ Falk, Avner (2008). Anti-semitism: a history and psychoanalysis of contemporary hatred. ABC-CLIO. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-313-35384-0.
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  7. ^ a b Southern Poverty Law Center Race and 'Reason'; Academic ideas a pillar of racist thought. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  8. ^ Saini, Angela (2019). Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press. p. 64. ISBN 9780807076910.
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  11. ^ Segal, Nancy L. (2012). Born Together – Reared Apart. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-05546-9.
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    Rushton, J. Philippe (2002). (PDF). Albany Law Rev. 66: 209. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 27, 2013.
    Lombardo, Paul A. (2002). "Pioneer's Big Lie". Albany Law Rev. 66: 1125.
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  21. ^ Hashaw, T. (2007). Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America. Mercer University Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-88146-074-2.
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  23. ^ Saini, Angela (2019). Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press. pp. 83–84. ISBN 978-0-8070-7691-0. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
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  27. ^ . www.splcenter.org. Archived from the original on December 31, 2006.
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  29. ^ MacIntyre, B (March 13, 1989). "The new eugenics". The Sunday Telegraph. London., cited in E.M., Kramer (2003). The emerging monoculture: assimilation and the 'model minority'. Praeger. pp. 118, 302. ISBN 978-0-275-97312-4.
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  31. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Miller, Adam (1994). "The Pioneer Fund: Bankrolling the Professors of Hate". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (6): 58–61. doi:10.2307/2962466. JSTOR 2962466.
  32. ^ Lichtenstein, Grace (December 11, 1977). "Fund Backs Controversial Study of 'Racial Betterment'". The New York Times.
  33. ^ Rosenthal, Steven J. "The Pioneer Fund: Financier of Fascist Research". American Behavioral Scientist. 39 no. 1 (September 1995): 44–61.
  34. ^ Pioneer Fund Grants, 1971–1996
  35. ^ Defend Colorado Now: Lamm & FAIR September 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  36. ^ Mehler, Barry. Pioneer Fund Grant Totals, 1971–1996. Retrieved July 16, 2006.
  37. ^ a b c d Mehler, Barry (July 7, 1998). Race Science and the Pioneer Fund Originally published as "The Funding of the Science" in Searchlight, No. 277.
  38. ^ Segal, Nancy L. (June 18, 2012). Born Together – Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study. Harvard University Press. pp. 315–317. ISBN 9780674065154.
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  40. ^ . Intelligence Report. Winter 2002. Archived from the original on February 2, 2010.
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Further reading edit

External links edit

  • Official website

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This article is about the eugenics fund For the fund associated with figure skating education and medicine see Helen M McLoraine For the international talent fund see Daniel Gross software entrepreneur The Pioneer Fund is an American non profit foundation established in 1937 to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences The organization has been described as racist and white supremacist in nature 2 3 4 5 The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies the Pioneer Fund as a hate group 6 7 One of its first projects was to fund the distribution in US churches and schools of Erbkrank a Nazi propaganda film about eugenics 8 Pioneer FundFormationMarch 11 1937FounderWickliffe Preston DraperTypeNonprofit foundationFocusEugenics Race and intelligence research Opposition to immigrationHeadquartersNew York City U S 1 DirectorRichard LynnDirectorGerhard MeisenbergKey peopleHarry Laughlin Frederick Osborn Malcolm Donald John Marshall Harlan II J Philippe RushtonFrom 2002 until his death in October 2012 the Pioneer Fund was headed by psychology professor J Philippe Rushton who was succeeded by Richard Lynn 9 10 Two of the best known studies funded by Pioneer Fund are the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart 11 and the Texas Adoption Project which studied the similarities and differences of identical twins and other children adopted into non biological families Research backed by the fund on race and intelligence has generated controversy and criticism One prominent example is the 1994 book The Bell Curve which drew heavily from Pioneer funded research 12 13 The fund also has ties to eugenics 14 and has both current and former links to white supremacist publications such as American Renaissance and Mankind Quarterly Contents 1 History 1 1 Wickliffe Preston Draper 1 2 Founding members 1 3 History after 1945 2 Political publishing and legal funding 3 Recipients of funding 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksHistory editSee also History of the race and intelligence controversy Pioneer Fund was incorporated on March 11 1937 The incorporation documents of the Pioneer Fund list two purposes The first modeled on the Nazi Lebensborn breeding program 15 was aimed at encouraging the propagation of those descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original thirteen states prior to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States and or from related stocks or to classes of children the majority of whom are deemed to be so descended Its second purpose was to support academic research and the dissemination of information into the problem of heredity and eugenics and the problems of race betterment 16 The Pioneer Fund argues the race betterment has always referred to the human race referred to earlier in the sentence and critics argue it referred to racial groups The document was amended in 1985 and the phrase changed to human race betterment 12 The first five directors were Wickliffe Preston Draper Harry Laughlin Frederick Osborn Malcolm Donald and John Marshall Harlan II Wickliffe Preston Draper edit Main article Wickliffe Preston Draper Wickliffe Preston Draper the fund s de facto final authority served on the board of directors from 1937 until 1972 He founded Pioneer Fund after having acquired an interest in the Eugenics movement which was strengthened by his 1935 visit to Nazi Germany where he met with the leading eugenicists of the Third Reich who used the inspiration from the American movement as a basis for the Nuremberg Laws He served in the British army at the beginning of World War I transferring to the US Army as the Americans entered the war During World War II he was stationed as an intelligence officer in India 17 Draper secretly met C Nash Herndon of Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University in 1949 Little is known about their meetings but Herndon was playing a major role in the expansion of the compulsory sterilization program in North Carolina 18 Psychology professor William H Tucker describes Draper as someone who aside from his brief periods of military service never pursued a profession or held a job of any kind 3 According to a 1960 article in The Nation an unnamed geneticist said Draper told him he wished to prove simply that Negroes were inferior 19 Draper funded advocacy of repatriation of black people to Africa 20 21 Founding members edit Harry Laughlin was the director of the Eugenics Record Office at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island New York He served as the president of Pioneer Fund from its inception until 1941 He opposed miscegenation and had proposed a research agenda to assist in the enforcement of Southern race integrity laws by developing techniques for identifying the pass for white person who might successfully hide all of his black blood 3 He singled out Jews and fought efforts to allow entry into the United States to Jewish refugees fleeing from Nazi Germany 17 Eleven months after the enactment of the Nuremberg Laws Laughlin wrote to an official at the University of Heidelberg which had awarded him an honorary doctorate that the United States and the Third Reich shared a common understanding of the practical application of eugenic principles to racial endowments and racial health 3 Frederick Osborn wrote in 1937 that the Nazi Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring was the most exciting experiment that had ever been tried 22 16 Osborn was the secretary of the American Eugenics Society which was part of an accepted and active field at the time the chairman of the Advisory Committee on Selective Service during World War II and later the deputy US representative to the UN Atomic Energy Commission Malcolm Donald was the Draper family lawyer and trustee of the Draper estate He was a former editor of the Harvard Law Review and a brigadier general during World War II John Marshall Harlan II whose firm had done legal work for the Pioneer Fund He was the only director whose name did not appear on the incorporation papers He was director of operational analysis for the Eighth Air Force in World War II and was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States by President Dwight D Eisenhower He voted for the decision in Brown v Board of Education as a member of the Supreme Court and his grandfather was the only dissent in Plessy v Ferguson reversed by the decision He dissented in Swain v Alabama and Miranda v Arizona History after 1945 edit Corporate lawyer Harry F Weyher Jr was president of the Pioneer Fund from 1958 until his death in 2002 23 Following Jesse Helms s 1984 Senate re election bid The Washington Post journalists Thomas B Edsall and David A Vise reported that both Helms and Thomas F Ellis were linked to the Pioneer Fund which was described as having financed research into racial betterment by scientists seeking to prove that blacks are genetically inferior to whites 24 A16 1 Later directors included Marion A Parrott 1973 2000 25 J Philippe Rushton Richard Lynn and Gerhard Meisenberg as of 2019 26 Rushton who headed Pioneer until 2012 spoke at conferences of the American Renaissance AR magazine in which he has also published articles 27 Anti racist Searchlight magazine described one such AR conference as a veritable who s who of American white supremacy 28 Political publishing and legal funding editThe Pioneer Fund was described by the London Sunday Telegraph March 12 1989 as a neo Nazi organization closely integrated with the far right in American politics 29 The Pioneer Fund supported the distribution of a eugenics film titled Erbkrank Hereditary Defective or Hereditary Illness which was published by the pre war 1930s Nazi Party William Draper obtained the film from the predecessor to the Nazi Office of Racial Policy Rassenpolitisches Amt prior to the founding of the Pioneer Fund 3 According to the Pioneer Fund site all founders capable of doing so participated in the war against the Nazis 30 In the 1950s and 1960s the fund supported two government committees that gave grants for both anti immigration and genetics research The committee members included Representative Francis E Walter chair of the House Un American Activities Committee and head of the Draper Immigration Committee Henry E Garrett a White Citizens Council member 31 and educator known for his belief in the genetic inferiority of blacks and Senator James O Eastland of Mississippi head of the Draper Genetics Committee 32 Draper also made large financial contributions to efforts to oppose the American Civil Rights Movement and the racial desegregation mandated by Brown v Board of Education such as 215 000 to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission in 1963 3 As of 1994 the Pioneer Fund distributed more than 1 million per year to academics 31 Hampton University sociology professor Steven J Rosenthal described the fund in 1995 as a Nazi endowment specializing in production of justifications for eugenics since 1937 the Pioneer Fund is embedded in a network of right wing foundations think tanks religious fundamentalists and global anti Communist coalitions 33 In 2002 William H Tucker criticized the fund s grant funding techniques Pioneer s administrative procedures are as unusual as its charter Although the fund typically gives away more than half a million dollars per year there is no application form or set of guidelines Instead according to Weyher an applicant merely submits a letter containing a brief description of the nature of the research and the amount of the grant requested There is no requirement for peer review of any kind Pioneer s board of directors two attorneys two engineers and an investment broker decides sometimes within a day whether a particular research proposal merits funding Once the grant has been made there is no requirement for an interim or final report or even for an acknowledgment by a grantee that Pioneer has been the source of support all atypical practices in comparison to other organizations that support scientific research 3 In accord with the tax regulations governing nonprofit corporations Pioneer does not fund individuals under the law only other nonprofit organizations are appropriate grantees As a consequence many of the fund s awards go not to the researchers themselves but to the universities that employ them a standard procedure for supporting work by scientists affiliated to academic institutions In addition to these awards to the universities where its grantees are based Pioneer has made a number of grants to other nonprofit organizations and corporations that have been created to channel resources to a particular academic recipient while circumventing the institution where the researcher is employed 3 34 The Southern Poverty Law Center listed the Pioneer Fund as a hate group in 2003 citing the fund s history its funding of race and intelligence research and its connections with racist individuals 6 7 In 2006 the Center for New Community a human rights advocacy organization characterize the Pioneer Fund as a white supremacist foundation that specializes in funding science dedicated to demonstrating white intellectual and moral superiority They draw particular attention to Rushton s theories about differences between races as evidence of the racial slant which they claim accompanies much of the research which is backed by the Fund 35 Recipients of funding editPioneer Fund s figures are from 1971 to 1996 and are adjusted to 1997 USD 36 Many of the researchers whose findings support the hereditarian hypothesis of racial IQ disparity have received grants of varying sizes from the Pioneer Fund 37 Large grantees in order of amount received are Thomas J Bouchard at the University of Minnesota 38 Arthur Jensen at the University of California Berkeley 1 096 094 as of 1994 31 J Philippe Rushton at the University of Western Ontario was head of the fund from 2002 to his death in 2012 In 1999 Rushton used some of his grant money from the Pioneer Fund to send out tens of thousands of copies of an abridged version of his book Race Evolution and Behavior to social scientists in anthropology psychology and sociology causing a controversy 39 Tax records from 2000 show that his Charles Darwin Institute received 473 835 73 of that year s grants 40 Roger Pearson at the Institute for the Study of Man eugenicist citation needed and anthropologist founder of the Journal of Indo European Studies 41 received over a million dollars in grants in the 1980s and 1990s 3 37 Using the pseudonym of Stephan Langton Pearson was the editor of The New Patriot a short lived magazine published in 1966 67 to conduct a responsible but penetrating inquiry into every aspect of the Jewish Question which included articles such as Zionists and the Plot Against South Africa Early Jews and the Rise of Jewish Money Power and Swindlers of the Crematoria 37 The Northern League an organization founded in England in 1958 by Pearson supported Nazi ideologies and included former members of the Nazi Party 3 Michael Levin of the City College of New York 124 500 as of 1994 31 Richard Lynn at Ulster Institute for Social Research 325 000 as of 1994 31 Linda Gottfredson at the University of Delaware 267 000 as of 1994 31 Other notable recipients of funding include Hans Eysenck the most cited living psychologist at the time of his death 1997 known for fraudulent work financed by the tobacco industry 42 43 and also believing in parapsychology and astrology 44 Lloyd Humphreys Joseph M Horn Robert A Gordon 214 000 as of 1994 31 Garrett Hardin author who in 1968 re popularized the 1833 phrase tragedy of the commons 29 000 as of 1994 31 R Travis Osborne 386 900 as of 1994 31 Audrey M Shuey author of The Testing of Negro Intelligence 1958 Philip A Vernon William Shockley winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956 received a series of grants in the 1970s Shockley had become notorious in his later career for promoting the controversial genetic hypothesis of racial intelligence differences and for being a proponent of eugenics 188 900 31 Aurelio Jose Figueredo as of 2018 the only academic researcher receiving funding from the Pioneer Fund According to the Associated Press from 2003 to 2016 Figueredo received 458 000 Figueredo received between 8 000 and 30 000 for the 2017 2018 academic year his research assistant Michael Woodley is also involved with the Pioneer Fund 10 45 46 Seymour Itzkoff the Pioneer Fund approved a 12 000 grant to Smith College to assist in the publication of a series of educational books in support of Itzkoff s Evolution of Intelligence series It also approved a 12 000 grant to be distributed in 1987 to assist in the publication of the series 47 The fund gave the Federation for American Immigration Reform FAIR a total of 1 3 million between 1985 and 1994 48 Among the grants was 150 000 for studies in connection with immigration policies 17 Funding was dropped after negative publicity during the campaign for California s Proposition 187 linked the Pioneer Fund to ads purchased by FAIR 49 50 Other immigration reduction groups that have received donations from the Pioneer Fund include ProjectUSA 51 and American Immigration Control Foundation 52 One of the grantees is the paleoconservative and white supremacist journalist Jared Taylor the editor of American Renaissance and a member the advisory board of the white nationalist publication the Occidental Quarterly Another is Roger Pearson s Institute for the Study of Man 6 Many of the key academic white nationalists in both Right Now and American Renaissance have been funded by the Pioneer Fund which was also directly involved in funding the parent organization of American Renaissance the New Century Foundation 37 Founder Wickliffe Draper secretly funded the 1960 launch of Mankind Quarterly to clandestinely serve as a publishing arm for its segregationist founders 53 See also editMainstream Science on Intelligence London Conference on IntelligenceNotes edit Pioneer Fund Southern Poverty Law Center Retrieved January 13 2023 John P Jackson Jr Winston Andrew S October 7 2020 The Mythical Taboo on Race and Intelligence Review of General Psychology 25 1 We refer to the five decades of careful archival investigations documenting the involvement of psychologists and the Pioneer Fund with the campaign to overturn the Brown decision and preserve segregation anti immigration activism and active involvement with neo Nazi groups a b c d e f g h i j Tucker William H 2007 The Funding of Scientific Racism Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund University of Illinois Press ISBN 978 0 252 07463 9 Diane B Paul Winter 2003 The Funding of Scientific Racism Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund review Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77 4 972 974 doi 10 1353 bhm 2003 0186 S2CID 58477478 Wroe Andrew 2008 The Republican party and immigration politics from Proposition 187 to George W Bush Springer p 81 ISBN 978 0 230 61108 5 Falk Avner 2008 Anti semitism a history and psychoanalysis of contemporary hatred ABC CLIO p 18 ISBN 978 0 313 35384 0 a b c Berlet Chip August 14 2003 Into the Mainstream An array of right wing foundations and think tanks support efforts to make bigoted and discredited ideas respectable Southern Poverty Law Center a b Southern Poverty Law Center Race and Reason Academic ideas a pillar of racist thought Retrieved March 7 2017 Saini Angela 2019 Superior The Return of Race Science Beacon Press p 64 ISBN 9780807076910 Beirich Heidi Pioneer Fund Assets Divided New Leadership Appointed Hatewatch Southern Poverty Law Center Retrieved February 9 2014 a b Flaherty Colleen September 10 2018 Arizona psychologist faces scrutiny for grants from organization founded to support research in eugenics Inside Higher Ed Retrieved October 9 2018 Segal Nancy L 2012 Born Together Reared Apart Cambridge MA Harvard University Press ISBN 978 0 674 05546 9 Bryan Caplan June 20 2012 O Brother Who Art Thou Wall Street Journal a b The Bell Curve and the Pioneer Fund ABC World News Tonight Retrieved August 28 2019 via Hartford HWP com Lane Charles December 1 1994 The Tainted Sources of The Bell Curve The New York Review of Books Lombardo Paul A 2002 The American Breed Nazi eugenics and the origins of the Pioneer Fund Albany Law Rev 65 3 743 830 PMID 11998853 Rushton J Philippe 2002 The Pioneer Fund and the Scientific Study of Human Differences PDF Albany Law Rev 66 209 Archived from the original PDF on March 27 2013 Lombardo Paul A 2002 Pioneer s Big Lie Albany Law Rev 66 1125 Tucker William H 2002 A Closer Look at the Pioneer Fund Response to Rushton Albany Law Rev 66 1145 Crawford James 1993 Hold Your Tongue Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only Addison Wesley ISBN 978 0 201 62479 3 a b Mehler Barry 1989 Foundation for Fascism the New Eugenics Movement in the United States Patterns of Prejudice 23 4 17 doi 10 1080 0031322x 1989 9970026 a b c Lombardo Paul A 2002 The American Breed Nazi Eugenics and the Origins of the Pioneer Fund Albany Law Review 65 3 743 830 PMID 11998853 SSRN 313820 Begos Kevin December 11 2002 Benefactor With a Racist Bent Wealthy recluse apparently liked the looks and potential of Bowman Gray s new medical genetics department Winston Salem Journal May R W May 14 1960 Genetics and Subversion The Nation 190 421 Jackson J P 2005 Science for segregation Race law and the case againstBrown v Board of Education New York University Press p 34 ISBN 978 0 8147 4271 6 Hashaw T 2007 Children of Perdition Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America Mercer University Press p 158 ISBN 978 0 88146 074 2 Osborn Frederick February 24 1937 Summary of the Proceedings of the Conference on Eugenics in Relation to Nursing American Eugenics Society Archives Saini Angela 2019 Superior The Return of Race Science Beacon Press pp 83 84 ISBN 978 0 8070 7691 0 Retrieved May 6 2020 Edsall Thomas B Vise David A March 31 1985 CBS Fight a Litmus Test for Conservatives Helms Group Faces Legal Hurdles in Ideological Takeover Bid Helms Connected Money Machine Bankrolling Fairness in Media The Washington Post Pioneer Fund Founders and Former Directors Archived November 30 2012 at the Wayback Machine Van der Merwe Ben February 19 2018 It might be a pseudo science but students take the threat of eugenics seriously New Statesman Archived from the original on May 5 2019 Retrieved July 25 2018 40 to Watch www splcenter org Archived from the original on December 31 2006 gt gt Searchlight Magazine lt lt Archived from the original on February 9 2007 Retrieved February 13 2007 MacIntyre B March 13 1989 The new eugenics The Sunday Telegraph London cited in E M Kramer 2003 The emerging monoculture assimilation and the model minority Praeger pp 118 302 ISBN 978 0 275 97312 4 Pioneer Fund Founders and Former Directors Archived November 30 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved July 16 2006 a b c d e f g h i j Miller Adam 1994 The Pioneer Fund Bankrolling the Professors of Hate The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 6 58 61 doi 10 2307 2962466 JSTOR 2962466 Lichtenstein Grace December 11 1977 Fund Backs Controversial Study of Racial Betterment The New York Times Rosenthal Steven J The Pioneer Fund Financier of Fascist Research American Behavioral Scientist 39 no 1 September 1995 44 61 Pioneer Fund Grants 1971 1996 Defend Colorado Now Lamm amp FAIR Archived September 10 2008 at the Wayback Machine Mehler Barry Pioneer Fund Grant Totals 1971 1996 Retrieved July 16 2006 a b c d Mehler Barry July 7 1998 Race Science and the Pioneer Fund Originally published as The Funding of the Science in Searchlight No 277 Segal Nancy L June 18 2012 Born Together Reared Apart The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study Harvard University Press pp 315 317 ISBN 9780674065154 Tucker William H Conclusion Pioneer or Pamphleteer Archived December 21 2005 at the Wayback Machine The Funding of Scientific Racism Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund Academic Racism Intelligence Report Winter 2002 Archived from the original on February 2 2010 The Journal of Indo European Studies Archived October 25 2005 at the Wayback Machine via A Richard Diebold Center for Indo European Language and Culture https en wikipedia org wiki Hans Eysenck 2019 King s College London enquiry https retractionwatch com 2020 02 12 journals retract three papers by hans eysenck flag 18 some 60 years old https en wikipedia org wiki Hans Eysenck Parapsychology and astrology Kunzelman Michael August 25 2018 APNewsBreak University accepted 458K from eugenics fund AP News Retrieved October 9 2018 Figueredo Aurelio Jose Cabeza de Baca Tomas Woodley Michael Anthony July 2013 The Measurement of Human Life History Strategy Personality and Individual Differences 55 3 251 255 doi 10 1016 j paid 2012 04 033 ISSN 0191 8869 ISAR Bibliography Seymour W Itzkoff ferris pages org Retrieved December 9 2019 The Anti immigration Movement From Shovels to Suits Solana Larsen NACLA Report on the Americas New York May June 2007 Vol 40 No 3 p 14 Pro Prop 187 group admits it bought ads FAIR says it only attempted to clear its name Marilyn Kalfus The Orange County Register Orange County Register Santa Ana California October 26 1994 p A 12 White Supremacist Link Trips Prop 187 Pamela Burdman San Francisco Chronicle October 13 1994 p A 4 Cannon critics sidestep FEC lists Deborah Bulkeley Deseret News Salt Lake City Utah July 17 2004 p B 01 Workers go home David L Ostendorf The Christian Century Chicago December 19 26 2001 Vol 118 No 35 pp 8 Racial Science and British Society 1930 62 by G Schaffer Springer 2008 pages 142 3 Retrieved October 8 2020 ISBN 9780230582446References editLynn Richard 2001 Preface My Years with the Pioneer Fund PDF The Science of Human Diversity A History of the Pioneer Fund Harry F Weyher Preface Lanham MD University Press of America ISBN 978 0 7618 2040 6 Bouchard T J Lykken D T McGue M Segal NL Tellegen A October 1990 Sources of human psychological differences the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart Science 250 4978 223 228 Bibcode 1990Sci 250 223B CiteSeerX 10 1 1 225 1769 doi 10 1126 science 2218526 PMID 2218526 S2CID 11794689 Graves Joseph L 2002 What a tangled web he weaves Race reproductive strategies and Rushton s life history theory Anthropological Theory 2 2 131 154 doi 10 1177 1469962002002002627 S2CID 144377864 Lieberman Leonard 2001 How Caucasoids Got Such Big Crania and Why They Shrank Current Anthropology 42 1 69 95 doi 10 1086 318434 PMID 14992214 S2CID 224794908 Cernovsky Zack 1995 On the similarities of American blacks and whites A reply to J P Rushton Journal of Black Studies 25 6 672 doi 10 1177 002193479502500602 S2CID 59065836 Archived from the original on December 13 2004 Neisser Ulric 2004 Serious Scientists or Disgusting Racists Contemporary Psychology APA Review of Books 49 1 5 7 doi 10 1037 004224 Pioneer Fund Inc Form 990 ERI Economic Research Institute Inc 2011 Retrieved January 9 2010 Further reading editKuhl Stefan 1994 The Nazi Connection Eugenics American Racism and German National Socialism Oxford Oxfordshire Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0 19 514978 4 External links editThe Pioneer Fund Official website Historic website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Pioneer Fund amp oldid 1206929019, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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