Um, Literally rides on a Nazi tank, into the city of Bilbao, uh, at the time when Franco's army is laying seeds to the place, uh, only a few weeks after the infamous bombing of the, of the city of Akaka in the Basque region. But if you want to go complain to your Dean, you go ahead. I mean, I wish that some of the millions of people who watch that video would, like, learn about his work, his life's work. Lisa:Ah, the classic he who smelt it, dealt it maneuver. 7 (July, 1991), Cross-Port InnerView, Vol. Associate Producer: Padmini Ragunath Rigo:Yeah. This We're not making progress here. That's what it was all about, they wanted to resurrect their movement to come after my son. Lisa:Okay. So when things got hot, you wanted to make sure everything was locked down. I mean, that's some classic, "Oh, at least these guys tell it how it is." 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. Rigo:Exactly, and they develop a playbook to ensure their survival. Lisa:Wow. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. The book has 57 pages of bibliography, many from mainstream scientific journals, but some of them are far from reputable. 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. Phillip John Donahue (born December 21, 1935) is an American media personality, writer, film producer, and the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. His television program, later known as Donahue, was the first talk show format that included audience participation. The show had a 29-year run on national television in America I had a subscription to all these, you know, Nazi newspapers. He wants us to mention that he has throat cancer, and that his voice is strained. And here the relationship was reversed, in which Pioneer or Draper would contact these people and say, "Oh, I see you're doing things. 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. Rigo:Right. However, The Pioneer Fund and the Mankind Quarterly are not just any other source. Mehler connected the dots. He's a psychologist and a professor who's won a bunch of awards. Rigo:Yeah, and it claimed that Black people were a threat to civilization, and that they should be repatriated back to Africa. If you were less than one quarter Jewish then you could be considered, uh, to be Aryan, which was much more lenient than the one drop rule in the United States. 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. Even though his show was running, Phil also appeared as a contributor Lisa:Chapter Two: The Mankind Quarterly. 7 No. Germany modeled its involuntary sterilization laws on ours. 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. Television programsTelecommunications industry, MCI Communications CorporationLuce Press ClippingsAT & T (Firm), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, MCI Communications Corporation records (Accession 2225). Lisa: Okay. 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. There are somebody who's at the top. He called it The Case of Barry Mehler. News archive:Some of the ideas found in the book, the bell curve are not new. Uh, the Harvard Educational Review article that he wrote, How Much Can We Boost IQ, you know, there was At the time, I was working at little Head Start in Spanish Harlem, and we would feed the children breakfast, and Arthur Jensen was argued, "It really isn't gonna change their IQ whether you feed them breakfast or not.". Eventually, the popularity of this approach proved to be his downfall, See production, box office & company info. Now, for better or worse, these are all facts. Rigo:Right, and Murray and his coauthor also credited Richard Lynn for providing expertise on the book. And I couldn't give a flying any longer and to the administration and no limit of an administrator is going to tell me how to teach my classes because I'm a tenured professor. Ironically, the Third Reich thought that this was too extreme for them, and so they didn't use the one drop of Jewish blood made you Jewish. And I decided I wanted to become a rabbi, and my father thought that was a terrific idea, and, and I transferred to a Jewish parochial school, and I began to wear the kippah on my head. Lisa:There's no resolution. 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. I was a minor academic in a tiny little institution, and Rushton was a Simon Guggenheim Fellow. So this is essentially what Arthur Jensen is arguing, you know, why serve breakfast to school kids if it's not going to improve their performance? Barry:Here was, uh, a guy who subscribed to The Thunderbolt. Rigo:Even though his work was only in left leaning publications, the TV appearances were a big platform for Mehler to refute their ideas, but he says that might have been for nothing. Hope it will be revived. Published through Distillations, the Science History Institutes highly acclaimed digital content platform, the project examines the scientific origins of support for racist theories, practices, and policies. Donohue:if you're going to present a thesis, which places uh, places are race at the bottom of the IQ. If there was one drop of quote, "negro blood" then you were automatically a negro. 5 (May, 1992) Improving Our Image Powerpoint Our Sorority Issue 15 (April 1987) Phyllis Frye and Phil Donahue TV Guise Vol. It was as if one person had finally realized what was going on, and he was sending out the warning signal. Lisa:Why does Phil Donahue have so many race scientists on his show? Is there anything that can get you cut off? Bill:The Mankind Quarterly is a very interesting publication. 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. In 1936, Draper paid to reprint 1,000 copies of the book called White America to send to politicians. Lisa:So what happened to The Pioneer Fund? Innate Themecomposed by Jonathan Pfeffer. Rigo: This is a clip of the film itself translated in English. Used with permission. Is it because the Mankind Quarterly wasn't as known, like you kind of had to, like, know what it was? Rigo:Yeah. Lisa:In a way, this kind of makes sense for how academia works. Some say, it's just part of his teaching style. Find thousands of books, manuscripts, visual materials and unpublished archives from our collections, 8 No. To check on you officers. 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. You'd, you'd just hope you didn't cross over with him on any committees. Donahue:and a big and larger genitals mean more promiscuity. 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. Lisa:Give me a taste of who we're talking about there. He was in deep. He's unorthodox, and he points out how Rushton's ideas are kind of ridiculous. It's like Rushton wants to dress it up in jargon so you don't notice how hateful the premise is, but Mehler just cuts right to the chase. Actually, this brings something up for me. Bill:And this was the first instance of what became Draper's trademark, um, maneuver throughout the rest of his life. I would imagine that some opinions are changing as the war drags on. That is the foundation for the claims that African-American people on average are intellectually inferior to whites. There are no reviews yet. 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. Lisa:Wickliffe Preston Draper. So they could see it. 7 No. Barry:I really got under their skin. Lisa:The quote that everyone remembers from that trial is when Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Lisa:I can only imagine what a book with that title is gonna be about. February 5, 2022 by . That is that your genes, your genetics, determine not only your biological makeup but your character, personality, intelligence level, and so on. 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. 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