We were on the run. He accuses Mehler of character assassination, bias, and of being a left wing nut. He wants us to mention that he has throat cancer, and that his voice is strained. Lisa:But since this is Distillations, I'm guessing they're not. He travels to Spain. These things meant a lot to him, and he has a huge inheritance burning a hole in his pocket, so he's looking around for a great social cause to pour his money into, so he becomes drawn to what else but eugenics. 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. Using stories from sciences past to understand our world. Rigo:Right. Bill:Shockley was a very difficult person to work with, and eventually Pioneer ended his funding because he was just turning people off that Pioneer wanted to influence. Search the history of over 797 billion In April 2017, author and neuroscientist Sam Harris published an episode on his popular podcast called Waking Up with an alluring title, Forbidden Knowledge. Barry:One of the things that Roger Pearson writes about me in his chapter, The Strange Case of Barry Mehler, was that I mail out my stuff in envelopes and I sent them around surreptitiously to all kinds of people, which is, of course, not true. Rigo:Exactly. And I really don't think that that was a winning strategy. You know, so but that, you know, uh, ultimately, uh, I, I don't think I won anybody over with any of that. They printed and mail unsolicited propaganda to scientists, politicians, and other influential people. Here's money we'll send you. Paul: And while he's in Europe Draper quite literally pals around with Nazis. Talk about context and urgency, that is what people understood, and that's why they were so upset at what I was doing. Rigo:Honestly, you're not that far off. Stuff was pouring off the presses from him. Well, the idea of eugenics is basically a belief that the human race could or should be quote, unquote, "improved" by selective breeding. Photo credit to Steve Kagan. Lisa:The quote that everyone remembers from that trial is when Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Is it still around? Okay, I don't want to make fun of the name in case there's somebody out there who's totally harmless who shares it, but of course that's the name of our rich racist villain. Lisa, could you read this quote from him? What he's just been talking about. I've never mailed my stuff out, but that was exactly what The Pioneer Fund was doing, and, and it was a, a strategy that they had to disseminate their information. Rigo:And there's more. I mean, I was never anybody really important. He had a much more prestigious position than, than I had. ", And in a number of cases, it wasn't even money for the research, it was just money for the individuals, gifts, large gifts of personal checks to the people who carry on this research. Rigo:Orthodox Jewish men and boys wear a kippah, or a skullcap every day. Rigo:Yeah. Lisa:Because they don't want to take credit for their deeply held beliefs in public. WebThe Phil Donahue Show, also known as Donahue, is an American television talk show hosted by Phil Donahue that ran for 26 years on national television. The father is just driving along proud of his son. Barry:We had DEFCON levels at my house, levels of security. WebDescription: Talk show host of the 1980s. February 5, 2022 by . He was a legend in Silicon Valley. 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 Lisa: You can really tell from the clip that Mehler's getting under their skin. Rigo:Arthur Jensen in particular got more than a million dollars from them. You'd, you'd just hope you didn't cross over with him on any committees. And in one of the books that he was writing, he devoted an entire chapter to Barry Mehler. Lisa:I'm gonna pull my academic hat on for a second and say an impact score is basically something that measures the importance of a given journal, so the higher the impact score, the more influential it is, so you measure that by citations and references, who's used the journal and cited it in their work. Please tell me someone noticed that this was happening. All views expressed by interviewees are theirs alone and not necessarily those of the Television Academy. Rigo:Yeah. Uh, you know, I, I don't need to be credited, and if you want to discredit me, they were always able to discredit me. Rigo: The Spanish Civil War was used by the Nazi's as a military testing ground and Draper wanted to be part of it. The political implications of this is that if Black people are intellectually inferior, why bother having a social safety net? It's kind of an unfortunate reason for Barry Mehler to have gone viral, right? And so, Pioneer has been the keeper of the flame, in this case. James E. Woods Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Rigo:They're projecting, obviously. Rigo:To polite society, it looked like professor's doing some perhaps questionable work on the side, but nothing that would warrant negative attention, but most people weren't really reading The Thunderbolt. And apparently Draper was also kind of shy. So Cox, and Laughlin, and Draper all have a hand in this racist advocacy right up to the floor of, of the Senate, as well as over in Germany. He uncovers dozens of academics with double lives. 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. Essentially, it gave racists a cover story. You know, the only thing I had was the fact that I was able to articulate a context, and a vision that nobody else really had. 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. He knew exactly what they were up to. He was previously married to Marge Cooney. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. 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. 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.". If there was one drop of quote, "negro blood" then you were automatically a negro. Find thousands of books, manuscripts, visual materials and unpublished archives from our collections, You might get something, but raise that up to 25 million to a really public place where i- it's the same thing as w- wearing the kippah. It gets stranger. Rigo:Exactly. He was the great scholar, [laughs] and I was just this annoying fly who was, uh, pointing out things that were embarrassing and disturbing to them, and it was the nature of what I was pointing out that was embarrassing to them, not who I was. Lisa:Ah, the infamous William Shockley. Rigo:Bill Tucket says that when Shockley came out as a racist in the 1960s, The Pioneer Fund must have felt like they won the lottery without even buying a ticket. He ran the Phil Donahue show for almost 3 decades with nearly 7000 one-hour daily shows. They also share the same funding source. Library & Archives Newsletter. Lisa:Okay. It's standard journalism practice to reach out to people if you're gonna talk about them. Rigo:So I asked Barry Mehler about the video. And it was a dramatic transformation. Rigo: Now, Rushton tries to avoid mentioning the crux of the argument, but Donahue kind of does a translation. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Rigo:Okay, here's one. Having said that, The Pioneer Fund succeeded in their eugenic ideas surviving. Additional musicbyBlue Dot Sessions. But what Barry Mehler did was to go deeper. Rigo:Right, exactly. How does he keep getting the chance to put these ideas forward? Boy, they must have hit it off right away. The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. Richard Lynn was the editor of the Mankind Quarterly at this time. TELEVISION ACADEMY and ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES are registered trademarks of ATAS. MSNBC canceled Phil Donahues talkshow after an internal memo (leaked to the All Your TV website, 2/25/03) argued that he would be a difficult public face for NBC in a time of war. Rigo:Yeah. Barry:They have their own printing presses, their own journals. And I wasn't just calling them Nazis, I was putting out a context to show that this was a fascist endeavor, and that these people were not only Neo Nazis, but they were just old fashioned Nazis, and I think that it was one of the reasons why they hated me so much. Don Grady (of "My Three Sons") composed the theme song for the Donahue show. Barry:I really got under their skin. 8 No. 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. Okay, so how did he get involved? Lisa:Ah, the pseudonym journal strikes again. He's an academic like Rushton, but less prestigious. The group behind it bombed a synagogue in 1958, just to give you a sense of who they were. 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. 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Here's $100. 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. They understood that tides were turning but they weren't ready to go away. You know, he's a brilliant guy, and he's got these ideas, and after all, he's probably right. And by now, it's 1930s, and guess who else likes the idea of sterilizing people they deem to be inferior? He fired almost all of the current faculty, and made openings for other neo Nazi scientists. His hugely popular show aired from 1967 to 1996, and Donahue won nine Daytime Emmy Awards (197780, 198283, 198586, and 1988) as That's an entirely other level of bad. 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. Actually, this brings something up for me. What's going on with him? 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. They would boo, they would hiss, they would clap for me, and then boo for him. Lisa:Welcome to Innate: How science invented the Myth of Race: This is episode three: Keepers of the Flame. Lisa:Sorry, Rigo, we haven't gotten to the really crazy part yet? 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. Their last known grant was in 2019 to an organization based in Ohio whose president has written extensively about racial differences. Lisa:They just have to keep at it 'til the temperature changes. The thesis advanced by authors, Charles Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein in the bell curve is that I Q is the best predictor of a person's success. Jensen was a renowned psychologist at UC Berkeley. This is why the book claims blacks are disproportionately living in poverty and also more likely to commit crime. I mean, it sort of falls under the category of yikes. Actually, this brings something up for me. Rigo:Yes. It brought together two different groups, those American scientists who were opposed to the civil rights movement, and who wanted to emphasize the inferiority of Blacks, and European scientists who were still promoting the kind of racial hygiene that had been at the core of the policies instituted by the Third Reich. So, what it suggested was that Draper and Pioneer really took the initiative in every case, and reached out to these people, and tried to subsidize them once it realized that these were people who were doing things that would be of interest to Pioneer's agenda. Barry:And Ron said to Issac, "Isaac, there are some people who might want to harm your father. He recalled one instance when his grade school son, Isaac, wanted to go play in the woods with his friend, but his volunteer body guard stopped him from going. They had to have two talking heads, and, and somebody had to speak for the other side for them to get their message out, and not only did I understand that, but I don't think that we run this. 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. The opposite, in fact. He had his own moment on the Phil Donahue Show in 1980. I mean, he was a Guggenheim Fellow, so this guy's very prestigious, and he's come to Donahue to mouth off theories about biological differences between racial groups. Lisa:And in the case of Pearson, if someone did try to attack him, he'd use the idea of academic freedom to fight against it, you know, and, and certainly it seems like he was keeping his Mankind Quarterly work more on the down low and using his other academic work to build a shield around himself. But unfortunately for Mehler, this was not the end of it. There's a load of absolute rubish. His final episode was aired on September 13, 1996. Jensen was willing to take a stand, and he knew what he was doing. 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 Read allThe precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. 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. He seemed to be enamored of his Army experience, and that was his primary identification all his life, especially since he never really had a job of any sort. It goes on so prominently that, uh, when this book arrives on the desk of members of Congress, Theodore, uh, Bilbo, infamous Mississippi senator known by his biographer as the arch angel of white supremacy, he praises the book, and he actually takes it to the floor of Congress and reads it while the filibuster is going on to prevent federal law against lynching being passed. Rigo:Something that a lot of people don't know is that the Nazis got the ideas about eugenics from the United States. Rigo:So method three was the most important and consistent. Rigo:Right. It makes me think of the Donahue interview with Rushton. And then he has a long and thorough correspondence and involvement with people in Germany both before and after the Nazi ascendancy. 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