Rigo:Yeah. McNeil/Leher Report:Race remains one of this country's most divisive topics and a controversial book with racially charged findings hasn't helped the debate. Its run was Rigo:In 1961, he co founded a journal called the Mankind Quarterly, and guess who's funding the journal? Barry:Here was, uh, a guy who subscribed to The Thunderbolt. [laughs] You'd probably groan and hope you, like, you could avoid him at a faculty mixer, right? Rigo: In 1935, before the Pioneer Fund is official, Laughlin sends Wycliffe Draper to a eugenics academic conference in Berlin. Barry:Jerry Hirsch sued Roger Pearson, so we were able to get a deposition under oath, and I prepared a list for Jerry's attorney to simply ask, uh, Pearson, "Have you published under this name, this name, this name, this name?" Bill:And this was the first instance of what became Draper's trademark, um, maneuver throughout the rest of his life. 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EMMY, EMMYS, and the Emmy Statuette are registered trademarks and/or copyrights Of ATAS and NATAS. He recalls how his success hosting the call-in radio talk show, "Conversation Piece," in Dayton, Ohio sparked the interest of the local television station's general manager. I would imagine that some opinions are changing as the war drags on. 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. Rigo:Barry Mehler is 75 years old now, and he's retired from teaching. The Hagley Digital Archives provides online access to selected items from the Hagley Library's collection of images, documents, and publications related to the history of business, technology, and society. You know? Lisa:Sorry, Rigo, we haven't gotten to the really crazy part yet? ". He really started to feel their wrath. 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:Somebody painted a swastika on his mailbox. 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. The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. MOO32 He had his own moment on the Phil Donahue Show in 1980. Mehler connected the dots. So I'm gonna go back to that book in a bit. I mean, uh, there's a lot of skepticism, he's getting a lot of dirty looks from people in the audience. I think it's important to acknowledge that what they're gonna say is intellectually dishonest, and therefor it doesn't provide a better understanding of them or their ideas. Bill:Usually people wanting their research to be funded take the initiative to contact funding agency and say, "Hey, look. We were the leaders in the field. Wow, William Shockley. Lisa:So they really do move underground. One were actual scientists working on projects that Pioneer though w- would have results that could be exploited for their political agenda. Senior Producer: Mariel Carr Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez Uploaded by Sometimes he goes through The Pioneer Fund, and sometimes he just gives money directly. You'd, you'd just hope you didn't cross over with him on any committees. Here's the work I'm doing. What's going on with him? Lisa:So on one hand, you have a very bored, uh, very racist wealthy boy, and on the other, you have a rising American Nazi. American media personality Phil Donahue is famous for pioneering and hosting "The Phil Donahue Show," later known as "Donahue." Essentially, it gave racists a cover story. Rigo:Why do you think that is? Hosts: Alexis Pedrick and Elisabeth Berry Drago If there was one drop of quote, "negro blood" then you were automatically a negro. Rigo:So instead of going to the police, Barry asked his friends who used to be Marines to come live in his house with their guns and their 125 pound rottweiler. And it's a label they pin on people and then you don't even attend to what the person said. WebAn icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Rigo:No one has proven that these threats came from The Pioneer Fund, but what we do know is that The Pioneer Fund actually hired a private investigation firm. I mean, I was never anybody really important. 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. Search the history of over 797 billion Barry:When I was 13, you know, we have a bar mitzvah and, you know, a Jewish boy becomes a man, and there's a big party, and, you know, I have five brothers so I'm in middle, and so this was the first time they made a big fuss over me and I was the center of everybody's attention. This episode examines a much more overt kind of scientific racism: by telling the story of a racist, wealthy, underground confederacythat has funded nearly every race scientist out there. 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. 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