It's standard journalism practice to reach out to people if you're gonna talk about them. Enjoy! Rigo:Yes, and here's an example of that. 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. The result: Donahue, the longest running syndicated talk show in television history with its 29 year on-air reign. Donahue - Phil Donahue : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Volume 90% 00:00 44:06 44:06 1 Donahue - 1972 - Gladys Knight 45:36 2 This We're not making progress here. web pages 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. on May 24, 2022, https://mytvlog.blogspot.com/2010/03/phil-donahue-show-1970-tv-series-1970.html, There are no reviews yet. It gets stranger. Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez If it is your nonprofit, add a problem Americans were getting spooked by what they saw in Germany. Bill:Usually people wanting their research to be funded take the initiative to contact funding agency and say, "Hey, look. Lisa:Welcome to Innate: How science invented the Myth of Race: This is episode three: Keepers of the Flame. Rigo: Barry Mehler's TV appearances made Roger Pearson furious. 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. The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. I mean, I was never anybody really. Rigo:It was a journal for racists by racists, a home for race scientists who had been rejected by other more mainstream journals. WebDonahue is joined by the cast of "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert", as well as the Family Research Institute's founder, Paul Cameron, and drag performer CoCo Lisa:Give me a taste of who we're talking about there. Some are big name academics at big name universities. It's kind of an unfortunate reason for Barry Mehler to have gone viral, right? Rigo:Yeah, and he got cover stories in the New York Times magazine, Newsweek, and The New Republic. 7 No. Even though, to be frank, it's also bad science. Mehler's the underdog, and his style was very direct. He's, he's got this letter from the president saying that, you know, he's a terrific guy and you should support his publication. Rigo:So Laughlin comes up with their first endeavor. And so, Pioneer has been the keeper of the flame, in this case. This season we're going to talk about how racism and white supremacy have been baked into science , and how it's not about individual racists, or it's not about individual bad people, but in this story, there actually are individual bad people funding bad things. on the Internet. Lisa:They just have to keep at it 'til the temperature changes. Rigo:Something that a lot of people don't know is that the Nazis got the ideas about eugenics from the United States. There's like, an intellectual continuity, so that theory Mehler had as a 13 year old boy, that the Nazis didn't just suddenly disappear, he was right. 5 (May, 1992), Counseling, Crossdressers, Gender dysphoria, Gender studies, LGBTQ+ relationships, Sexology, Transsexual people, American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), Ari Kane, Institute for Sexology, KDPR, Outreach Institute of Gender Studies (OIGS), The David Susskind Program, The Geraldo Show, The Phil Donahue Show, Theseus Counseling Service, WBUR Boston, WEEI Boston, WHDH Boston, WICE Providence, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag, Families, Finances, Gender realignment surgery, Jewelry, Law, Prisons, Transsexual people, Be All You Want to Be, Carlo Seta, Chillecothe Correctional Institute, Christine Jorgensen, Diane Kendall, Indiana Crossdresser Society, Sally Jessie Raphael Show, The Phil Donahue Show, Magazine name changed from "Cross-Port" starting with Vol. So the short story is that for Barry Mehler, all of this is personal, so when I ask him how he fell into this work, he took me back to his childhood in 1960s New York, where he was just a regular Jewish kid. They understood that tides were turning but they weren't ready to go away. And I really don't think that that was a winning strategy. Barry:He is eventually recognized by the Nazi government in 1936, both because of his work in the sterilization area, but also because he was a major proponent of the so called Racial Integrity Laws, the laws that prohibited people from being married if they were from different races. The real scientists. Rigo:So this incident sent Mehler on a path. This is an episode from the spring of 1990. He wanted to understand their philosophy. The opposite, in fact. Then the black population in the United States on the average. They also share the same funding source. I have a position at Ferris State University. Murray told the New York Times that, quote, "Some of the things we read to do this work, we literally had to hide when we were on planes and trains.". Paul: And then writes about it in an, a newspaper article that is syndicated and sent to a number of places around the country. Nobody wants to know that stuff, and nobody is really offended by it. on the Internet. When I looked at that, I said, "Here, finally, is a Nazi I don't have to worry about. In 1971, he became the chair of the Department of Anthropology and Comparative Religious Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi. So which is bigger, long or fat. There were some consequences, though. Lisa, could you read this quote from him? So a '90s race scientist has come to the Phil Donahue Show. 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. He ran the Phil Donahue show for almost 3 decades with nearly 7000 one-hour daily shows. Unquote. Lisa:Yeah. He seems to delight in presenting guests who are anti-war, anti-Bush and skeptical of the administrations motives. it's an offer that, uh, for $9,999, I can go with him on a tour of Antarctica to tour the Nazi's secret flying saucer base, or for $9.99, I could get a replica, a model of the Of the Nazi flying saucer which was a Frisbee with a swastika on it. 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. Um, but most of the money that Shockley got Well, in fact, really all of the money that Shockley got had nothing to do with research. He knows there must be more there, and sure enough, he was right. Lisa:In a way, this kind of makes sense for how academia works. I would send in a membership. 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. And it's a label they pin on people and then you don't even attend to what the person said. Sam Harris:People don't want to hear that intelligence is a real thing, and that some people have more of it than others, and they certainly don't want to hear the average IQ differs across races and ethnic groups. 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. Our agenda to port bill Blakemore has been looking into a fairly obscure research fund that has drawn attention because of this book, the bell curve, a fund. Used with permission. People were throwing money at him. I went to the police about the swastika on the mailbox and they said, "Yeah, you know, that's just kids, you know, and look, they didn't even do it right. Now, while the video, the language in that video is profane. Listen to this. With Pioneer funding, he produced one of these strange extremist publication after another. Okay, so how did he get involved? Rigo:One of Barry Mehler's racist subscriptions was a newspaper called The Thunderbolt. Donahue's guests are two middle aged men who could really pass as accountants. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents. Barry:And Ron said to Issac, "Isaac, there are some people who might want to harm your father. Rigo:One way that the Mankind Quarterly differs from other journals is their use of pseudonyms, which I'm guessing is it not normal in academia? Rigo:They named it The Pioneer Fund, but sometimes people called it the Draper Fund because it was all of his money, and they funded whatever he wanted. Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter for the latest WebEmployment at the Library & Archives. Uploaded by Actually, this brings something up for me. You know, so but that, you know, uh, ultimately, uh, I, I don't think I won anybody over with any of that. Digitized material in this online archive may document imagery or language that reflects racist, ableist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise offensive and harmful beliefs and actions in history. The Bell Curve was one of The Pioneer Fund's greatest hits for two reasons. You've got You have something wrong with that? Barry:The word pioneer has a real meaning to these people. He's a psychologist and a professor who's won a bunch of awards. There would've been no 'Donahue' show without that studio audience.". Phil Donahue Book Barry:This kind of propaganda, and this kind of advocacy goes on for some time. Now, for better or worse, these are all facts. 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. If a white supremacist wanted to discredit what you have to say, they, they might say, "Barry Mehler is a unreliable narrator because look at what happened." 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. The more citations, the more funding, the more chances to become tenured. In his four-and-a-half hour Archive interview, Phil Donahue describes the meandering path that led to hosting his long-running talk show, The Phil Donahue Show aka Donahue. TVRepeater Family (2) Trade Mark (3) His deep, smooth, authoritative voice. The Pioneer paid for it, but the Harvard Educational Review published it. He had his own moment on the Phil Donahue Show in 1980. Having said that, The Pioneer Fund succeeded in their eugenic ideas surviving. He stumbles his way into Harvard but he has very mediocre grades, and he eventually joins the Army, where he works his way up to the rank of Colonel. Lisa: Okay. Web10 A.M., Phil Donahue, CH.5 Biographical Sketch of Ari Kane Cross-Port InnerView, Vol. 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. 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. Search the history of over 797 billion And since these race scientists all knew each other, the journal became kind of like an echo chamber, and they all praised and cited each other's work to give it the veneer of legitimate science. 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. Rigo:Right, and Murray and his coauthor also credited Richard Lynn for providing expertise on the book. Remove constraint Subject: The Phil Donahue Show, American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), East Coast FTM Group Organizational Records, International Foundation for Gender Education Publications and Documents, Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000), Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan, Cross-Port InnerView, Vol. 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. 8 No. Rigo:Right. It was part of his insecurity, but the data for this was so stupid. Barry:Here was, uh, a guy who subscribed to The Thunderbolt. Lisa:So is The Pioneer Fund involved with Murray and The Bell Curve? The user assumes responsibility for obtaining permission from the copyright holder to publish or distribute this image. 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. Rigo:In 1961, he co founded a journal called the Mankind Quarterly, and guess who's funding the journal? The Price is Right? If there was one drop of quote, "negro blood" then you were automatically a negro. Bill:In general, Pioneer funded two different groups of recipients. They're on the frontier, you know, beating back the wilderness, um, killing off the Natives. It makes me think of the Donahue interview with Rushton. Rigo:Right, exactly. 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. WBBM-TV - 630 N. McClurg Court, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Lisa:So what happened to The Pioneer Fund? Lisa:Okay. So about the third or fourth show, Iwent out in the audience and it saved us. 5639 episodes The precursor to all the daytime talk shows that arose during the 1980's and 90's. Phil Donahue's show started off similar to other shows of its day, featuring celebrities and musical acts, web pages Lisa:All pretty common accusations that anyone who is coming against neo Nazis, even today. 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