The Pioneer Fund (1937- ) is an American foundation that has poured millions into scientific racism. The fund started as part of the eugenics movement of the early 1900s and is still with us.
Much of the science that underlies Herrnstein and Murray’s “The Bell Curve” (1994) was paid for, at least in part, by the Pioneer Fund. The same goes for most of the science that underlies HBD (human biodiversity), the sort of scientific racism that Steve Sailer and others push on the Internet.
Some who have received money:
- Audrey Shuey, who wrote “The Testing of Negro Intelligence” (1958, 2nd ed., 1966).
- Arthur Jensen, a professor of psychology at Berkeley, who said in the Harvard Education Review in 1969 that Head Start was a waste of money because black children have an average IQ of only 85 and nothing much would ever change that. Instead “eugenic foresight” was the answer.
- William Shockley, an American physicist and an inventor of the transistor, who used the money to spread his racist views in the American press in the 1970s.
- Philip E. Vernon, who wrote “The Abilities and Achievements of Orientals in North America” (1982). Vernon said they are more intelligent and quieter. The fund uses this book to prove they are not white supremacists.
- Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr, who used the money to do the Minnesota Study of Identical Twins Reared Apart. In the words of the fund, the study showed that “heredity plays a major role in almost every type of human behavior, accounting for 40 to 80% of individual differences.”
- The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which in 1994 fought for Proposition 187, a California law that would bar undocumented immigrants from hospitals and schools. The Southern Poverty Law Center calls it a “racist hate group”.
- J. Philippe Rushton, the current head of the fund, is a professor of psychology. He wrote “Race, Evolution and Behavior” (1995), which says that whites and especially Orientals (his word) have better brains and societies because of the challenges of living through cold winters. He has a table showing that Orientals have smaller “sex characteristics”, less sex drive and bigger brains than blacks, with whites in between.
- Richard Lynn, who wrote “IQ and the Wealth of Nations” (2002) with Tatu Vanhanen. This is where “Africa has an IQ of 70” comes from. He says countries are rich or poor mainly due to IQ. Lynn has argued that blacks have a “psychopathic” personality.
- Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance, a white supremacist magazine and website.
The fund on its website admits:
- Not enough intelligence testing has been done in Africa, Latin America and most of Asia to get solid numbers – meaning that Rushton and Lynn’s books are not based on solid fact.
- Science is a long way from finding the “IQ gene” and the “crime gene”.
- It mostly gives money to race realists, people who see race as a fact of nature that needs to be studied by science.
– Abagond, 2010.
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J. Philippe Rushton is my fave! This is the man who went to the Eaton Centre in Toronto and asked random men their genital size and how far they could ejaculate!:
Zack Cernovsky, in the Journal of Black Studies, claims “some of Rushton’s references to scientific literature with respects to racial differences in sexual characteristics turned out to be references to a nonscientific semipornographic book and to an article in the Penthouse magazine’s Forum.”[30]
Articles in the Canadian press based on interviews with Rushton’s first-year psychology students reported that Rushton had surveyed students in 1988 by asking “such questions as how large their penises are, how many sex partners they have had, and how far they can ejaculate.”[31] First-year psychology students at UWO are required “to participate in approved surveys as a condition of their studies. If they choose not to, they must write one research paper. Also, many students feel subtle pressure to participate in order not to offend professors who may later be grading their work. However, if a study is not approved, these requirements do not apply at all.”[31] For not telling them they had the option to not participate without incurring additional work, Rushton was barred by the university where he is tenured from using students as research subjects for two years.[31]
Also in 1988, Rushton conducted a survey at the Eaton Centre mall in Toronto where 50 whites, 50 blacks, and 50 Asians were paid to answer questions about their sexual habits. For not receiving permission of the university committee where he is employed, the administration at the University of Western Ontario reprimanded Rushton, calling his transgression “a serious breach of scholarly procedure,” said University President, George Pederson.[31]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Philippe_Rushton
If the above wasn’t documented, this would sound like a comedy skit or something out of a satire magazine! I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when he was conducting these ‘scientific’ interviews in the mall! The look on the interviewee’s faces would have been priceless, hahahahaha!!!!!!
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Millions of dollars for lies, sounds like the American mainstream media.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center is a private fund-raising organization. It has no authority, legal, moral or otherwise, to designate anyone as anything.
The SPLC has no more authority to designate “hate groups” than does the SPCA.
There is no legal definition of the term “hate group,” which is why even the FBI doesn’t use it. The term is meaningless.
The SPLC’s subjective and spurious definition of the term states that “…a “hate group” has nothing to do with criminality… [or] potential for violence…It’s all about ideology.”
Not criminal, not violent, just “wrong thinking.” In short, if you disagree with the SPLC’s ideology, or have “wrong thoughts” you are a “hater”.
FAIR meets all 20 of the Better Business Bureau’s “Standards for Charity Accountability,” whereas the SPLC has not done so for years, due to “…a lack of commitment to transparency.” (http://www.bbb.org/)
Since 2005, the SPLC has accepted nearly $3 million dollars from Jeffry Picower, who pocketed nearly $7 BILLION dollars from his friend Bernard Madoff’s $65 BILLION dollar ponzi scheme. Madoff’s swindle bankrupted thousands of investors, Jewish philanthropies and Holocaust survivors. Money doesn’t get much dirtier than this.
(http://wp.me/pCLYZ-1y)
Of the $30 million donor dollars the SPLC took in for 2008, it spent far more on fund-raising postage than it did on “legal case costs.” ($1.8 versus $1.3 million dollars). It spent nearly as much, $1.2 million, just on office supplies. (http://wp.me/pCLYZ-34)
SPLC founder Morris Dees brags on page 85 his autobiography, “A Season for Justice,” about accepting thousands of dollars from the Montgomery KKK to keep one of its main thugs out of federal prison.
That thug, Claude Henley, was charged by Bobby Kennedy’s DOJ with leading a violent mob against a bus load of Freedom Riders. While Dr. King was facing down Bull Connor’s attack dogs, Mr. Dees was cashing the Klan’s dirty checks.
Dees, who has kept more Klansmen OUT of prison than he’s ever sent there, meets every one of his own organization’s criteria for a Klan lawyer. (http://wp.me/pCLYZ-F)
The most ironic (read: “hypocritical”) thing about the Southern Poverty Law Center is that NOT ONE of its top ten, highest paid executives is a minority.
http://wp.me/pCLYZ-67
In fact, according to the SPLC’s hometown newspaper, the Montgomery Advertiser, despite being located LITERALLY in the back yard of Dr. Martin Luther King’s home church, the SPLC has NEVER hired a person of color to a highly paid position of power.
Some “experts”
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ohohoh .. this looks like a text ready to be copied and pasted.
If i “google” one of the sentences, will i get some result ?
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don’t these testing of black iQ makes them ignorant. what the hell is IQ.wouldn’t a person have to receive a certain level of educational study . so what if black average a IQ of 85 and. i still don’t get it. it makes absolutely no sense for these people to waste money on nonesense. how about a common sense test. for their stupid a@#
think they god
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http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/htimes/helsinki/business-hub/12880-parliament-requests-police-inquiry-into-vanhanens-actions.html
Hey, that Tatu Vanhanen guy of the Lynns study is actually our former prime ministers father :D. This study raised some questions in Finland too when this old senile dumsky went on to say in public that african blacks are dumber. And now, finally, his son is under investigation!! 😀
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and heres the dumbsky himself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatu_Vanhanen
This goes to show, that even high education and those marvelous IQ*s do not mean diddy in some cases, like his 😀
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Abagond, you have really done your homework and I am soo thankful for it! I had no idea that such writings could be published, much less funded. I am somewhat familiar with eugenics and estimated that remnants of it would be floating around in America (ie Planned Parenthood) but to know that there are widely respected professors and other scientist living today with such ideologies is breath-taking.
I am an African American female who has been debating with herself whether or not to pursue medicine (I just graduated with a B.S. in Biology). I am def going. I’m so taken back by each of the individuals listed and have done further research on a couple that I am amazed are as accomplished as they are. Thank you for your blog and the topic to relate to the laymen.
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Abagond,
Are rkeefe’s links spam?
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Jessica,
I assume you think the black woman who ran Planed Parenthood is an eugenicist too. I know many think of abortion only and that clenching the legs is an answer to birth control or somehow birth control is genocide, but the organization has allowed many women to get out poverty or in other words “not be barefoot and pregnant” all of their lives. It has given affordable access to non-hormonal birth control which some women tolerate better.
The founders ideology and agenda is of little relevance a century later and the organization has benefited many more white middle class women.
Abagond, I am not trying to get off topic, but I think that she brings up a similar issue; that of the previous post of Thomas Jefferson ideas of Black folks and slavery.
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Thanks for this string of “IQ” posts. This is fascinating stuff and I didn’t know any of it. I recall when “Bell Curve” came out. I didn’t read it, instead dismissing it as a bunch of racist hooey, and thus I didn’t realize that this train of thought was still occupying the minds of some people.
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Yes, I remember Phillip Rushton from my heady days as a York University student.
But what does it say that despite all of these “racist scientists” that Blacks are progressing (as are other racial groups) and racism is not acceptable? Doesn’t it show that they are losing the battle?
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“J. Philippe Rushton is my fave! This is the man who went to the Eaton Centre in Toronto and asked random men their genital size and how far they could ejaculate!:”
Haha! That’s awesome! Morgan Spurlock or Michael Moore needs to do a documentary on the life and work of this man.
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and heres the dumbsky himself:
The look on his face says it all; “I have a small pecker, but at least I am smarter than those men with big ones”. For these weirdos, that is what it boils down to, mens’s sexuality, their own, other groups, and their feelings of inferiority. It really has nothing to do with intelligence deep down, The asian me are the smartest, hence they have the smallest peckers. The white men are next, but have slightly bigger peckers than the smartest asians. They are just right! The blacks have the biggest peckers, thus the smallest brains. On yeah, Jews are up there with the asians, so they also have small peckers!
Now on an anecdotal note, The biggest peckered man I have ever seen, was a Jewish man(no I didn’t hump him, he was just a friend who had it so he flaunted it, besides which, I enjoy being mobile). Now this big peckered Jewish man must have been retarded as he had a big schlong. At the time when I visited him in Berekely, he was working on his PH.D. So that put paid to the notion that big peckers = small brains.
Another anomaly I find in their arguments, is that Jews are a ‘race’, not just a religion. What about ‘racially’ mixed people? I guess they are just right! Their peckers aren’t to big or too small! They ain’t that dumb either! Since that describes the present day black American(Most have at least 12% admixture), that also puts paid to many notion of their theories.
How can you conceivably test millions of people? Who will decide which test will be the most viable. Testing a handful of a certain populace just doesn’t cut it. Basing it on school test/scores without context doesn’t cut it. You can’t test people’s intelligence with any viability, as intelligence is too complex a thing and the forms are seemingly endless. However, you can measure a man’s pecker, and by extension his level of confidence based upon his pecker size, as these ‘scientist’ do. It really has nothing to do with how smart or dumb anyone is. Rather, it has to do with these jacka**es feeling of sexual inferiority.
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The original story was that negroes were inferior, BODY and brains. In the 1936 Olympics Hitler was still confident that his Aryan athletes would dominate the Black American sprinters.
But it didn’t quite work out that way:
There were a few other setbacks to that idea along the way.
So the White Supremacists pretended that they had never believed that White people were physically superior to Black people and that their ideas had not been embarrassingly refuted. They just figured that brains were more important, so if Black people were to be sold to the world as inferior, it would have to be based on them being genetically stupid.
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So the White Supremacists pretended that they had never believed that White people were physically superior to Black people and that their ideas had not been embarrassingly refuted.
Now the trade off is between being dumb, with a big pecker, and a superb athlete versus being a geeky ‘genius’.
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@king, herneith: 😀 right on!
the stereotypes live on among the whites: braniacs are still physically loosers and the physical athletes are academically dumb. My uncle somehow ran marathon on national level in 1970’s (among Lasse Viren and those guys, if you want to know what kind of competition it was). Maybe he was stupid and smart, he did well in marathon AND academics. Now he is a professor of nuclear physics 😀
Hitler was really pissed off by Jesse Owens who snuffed their best one Luz Lang and also he was almost at uncontrollable rage because Lang was friendly with Owens. Scheisse sweinehund!! 😀
And then about dicks. I’ve met some guys who have been total dicks completely so how that effects on statistics?? Also I have met some really stupid guys with small ones and smart guys with huge trunks. I have met guys with big dicks who have no idea they have a huge ones and vice versa. I think this whole dick thing is really confusing.
Mine is not that long but thick enuff so am I stupid or smart?? I’m confused. My IQ test results in the military were dissapointing, considering that I went to university after the service and came out from there with papers. I managed to get some children too, even though I am not yer typical sex athlete. And even when I was part of very traditional intelligentsia with its poets, artists and other hippie freaks, I played american football, trained judo and boxing, did some powerlifting etc.
How I am in this dick-IQ-race thing? I’m totally confused 😀
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Now he is a professor of nuclear physics 😀
It must have been the cold climate! I haven’t heard Lasse Viren’s name in years, I forgot he was Finnish.
sweinehund!
Haven’t heard that in years! My father used to jokingly say that when we were children. My grandmother used to say scheisse all the time.
I have met guys with big dicks who have no idea they have a huge ones and vice versa. I think this whole dick thing is really confusing.
You sure do a lot of pecker gazing, what line of work are you in again?
How I am in this dick-IQ-race thing? I’m totally confused
You’re f*cked, as are most men who obsess on this(90% of the male populace)! Perhaps you should talk to Phillipe Rushton. Maybe he can clarify matter for you!
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Studying size and length of ejaculations, instead of skills?
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@ JGreyden and Hathor:
Rkeefe57’s comment is neither plagiarized nor are its links spam.
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@hathor: 😀 LOL!!
Yeah, it is really confusing! 😀 all these dicks going on and on about dicks. I mean, there was Tricky Dick Nixon, Dick Cavett, Dick van Dyke and these dicks in this fund!
I, personally, took the advice of my first REAL GF to the heart. She said, with a clear experienced mind, that it is the skill that really counts! 😀 clearly one of the best advices ever in my life.
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***Hey, that Tatu Vanhanen guy of the Lynns study is actually our former prime ministers father . ***
@ Sam,
Vanhanen & Lynn’s work on iq and the economic performance of nations holds up pretty well. The relationship is quite robust.
For more on the topic, I’d recommmend:
Weede, E. (2004). “Does Human Capital Strongly Affect Economic Growth Rates? Yes, but only If Assessed Properly.” Comparative Sociology, 3, 2, 115-134.
Jones, G. & Schneider, W. J. (2006). “Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach,”
Journal of Economic Growth, 11:71-93.
Ram, R. (2007). “IQ and economic growth: Further augmentation of Mankiw-Romer- Weil model.’ Economics Letters, 94:1, pages 7-11.
Rindermann, H. (2008a). Relevance of education and
intelligence at the national level for the
economic welfare of people. Intelligence, 36,
127-142.
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