Rushton and Pioneer Fund

Below are excerpts of a review I wrote of "The Bell Curve" with 
information about the Pioneer Fund, Rushton's benefactor.  The 
full text of the review can be found at:

http://www.shss.montclair.edu/english/furr/steverbc.html

Steve Rosenthal
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Because there is no scientific basis for the claims they make in The
Bell Curve, HM rely primarily on some highly "tainted" sources for
most of their arguments. In "The Tainted Sources of The Bell Curve,"
an article in the New York Review of Books, (12/1/94), Charles Lane
painstakingly analyzes the sources of HM's claims of inherited racial
and class differences in intelligence. Lane demonstrates that the
authors of The Bell Curve are closely tied to a group of writers who
have edited and contributed to a journal called The Mankind Quarterly
and received research money from the Pioneer Fund. What are The
Mankind Quarterly and the Pioneer Fund? 

The Mankind Quarterly is a journal founded in the late 1950's by
opponents of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement to publish articles
asserting the inferiority of Blacks. Its authors defended the racial
policies of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, championed apartheid in
South Africa and opposed independence for African countries. Since
1978 the editor of the journal has been Roger Pearson, an organizer of
neo-Nazi groups both in Europe and the U.S. In 1982 President Reagan
wrote a letter to Pearson to thank him for publishing the works of
"scholars" who uphold the "ideals and principles that we value at home
and abroad." (The letter is reproduced in Old Nazis, the New Right,
and the Republican Party, by Russ Bellant. 

"HE WHO PAYS THE PIPER CALLS THE TUNE"

The Pioneer Fund, as Lane points out in "The Tainted Sources of The
Bell Curve," is a New York foundation established in 1937 with the
money of Wycliffe Draper, a textile magnate who admired Nazi Germany
and favored sending U.S. Blacks back to Africa. The Pioneer Fund is
committed to eugenics, that is, policies of selective breeding for
purposes of "race betterment." In the late 1930's the Pioneer Fund
gave financial support to both U.S. and German "scientists" who
advocated and carried out forced sterilization and later outright
genocide against populations deemed to be genetically inferior. 

The Pioneer Fund bankrolls the journal The Mankind Quarterly. Even
more importantly, it has provided millions of dollars in research
grants to all the "scholars" in the U.S. since the 1930's who have
asserted that there are inherited racial differences in intelligence
and who have called for "eugenics" policies to decrease the numbers of
"inferior" groups and increase the numbers of "superior" groups.
Recent and current recipients of Pioneer Fund grants include Arthur
Jensen and William Shockley who a quarter century ago revived racist
arguments against Black intelligence; Philippe Rushton, South African
born Canadian racist who claims that Blacks have smaller brains and
larger penises than whites in order to breed larger numbers of
inferior children; Thomas Bouchard, U. of Minnesota professor who
studies twins in order to claim that IQ is mainly inherited; Richard
Lynn, from Northern Ireland, who asserts that Africans have lower
intelligence than African Americans; Robert Gordon, Johns Hopkins
sociologist who blames low IQ Blacks for crime; and Linda Gottfredson,
U. of Delaware professor who opposes affirmative action for low IQ
Blacks. (For further information on the Pioneer Fund, see Adolph
Reed's column in the Progressive (December, 1994), and Stefan Kuhl's
The Nazi Connection. 

HM cite no fewer than thirteen such "scholars" supported by the
Pioneer Fund. Lynn's work alone is cited twenty-four times in the
Bibliography of The Bell Curve. Virtually every important claim HM
make is based on citations of works by Pioneer Fund supported, Mankind
Quarterly published authors. What this means is that The Bell Curve is
a vehicle of Nazi propaganda wrapped in a cover of pseudo-scientific
respectability. It is an academic version of Adolph Hitler's Mein
Kampf.