Show Notes
In 1937, the heir to a textile manufacturing fortune established a charitable foundation to funnel money into disseminating propaganda produced in Nazi Germany. Since then, that fund has subsidized the overwhelming majority of research in the pseudoscientific field of 'race science.'
Sources & Further Reading:
Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press.
Saini, Angela (2019). Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press.
Gould, Stephen Jay (1996). The Mismeasure of a Man. Penguin Books.
Lusane, Clarence (2003). Hitler’s Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans in the Nazi Era. Routledge.
Kühl, Stefan (1994). The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism. Oxford University Press.
Barry Mehler, “The New Eugenics,” Science for the People (May/June 1983)
Lorimer, Frank, et al. “The Role of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.” The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 4, 1971, pp. 86–105. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3349466.
“Current Topics.” The Economic Journal, vol. 45, no. 178, 1935, pp. 406–09. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2224670.
“116. International Congress for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems.” Man, vol. 35, 1935, pp. 109–109. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2790721.
“Medical News.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 3890, 1935, pp. 192–93. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25344986.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1994/12/01/the-tainted-sources-of-the-bell-curve/
1994 publication of excerpt from The Bell Curve: https://newrepublic.com/article/120887/race-genes-and-iq-new-republics-bell-curve-excerpt
Rebuttals published in the same issue: https://newrepublic.com/article/120890/responses-new-republics-bell-curve-excerpt
Andrew Sullivan’s 2022 article https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/03/denying-genetics-isnt-shutting-down-racism-its-fueling-it.html
https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science-inc/
https://x.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1050391663552671744
https://www.ub.edu/personal/docencia/infocomp/bell.htm
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,748954-1,00.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1956/06/17/archives/dr-cg-campbell-88-expert-on-eugenic.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/136100c0
https://newrepublic.com/article/147960/charles-murray-marketing-genius
Herrnstein 1971 article in the atlantic https://gwern.net/doc/iq/1971-herrnstein.pdf
https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/the-bell-curve/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2757926/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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