Simon Whitten

It is also claimed that this group evolutionary strategy also manifests itself in the over-representation of Jews in the leadership of cultural, academic and political fields that have been tainted by cultural Marxism. 3/100

This “theory” is, obviously, the nothing more than the delusions of a neo-Nazi crank. Originating with open White Nationalist Kevin MacDonald, it’s basically every anti-Semitic conspiracy theory you’ve ever heard dressed up in pseudo-Darwinian clothes. 4/100

If this surprises you, it probably shouldn’t. Semi-mainstream scientific journals a littered with bogus race science just like this. 6/100

So how did we get to this point where mainstream scientific journals are hosting a debate on the finer details of the Jewish Question? In this thread, we’ll see how this is the result of a concerted effort at entryism into academia by a network of far-right activists. 8/100

This is the story of how Nazi money continued to corrupt the sciences long after the Second World War by funding fringe scholars and selectively funding semi-mainstream research. 9/100

It is the story of how former members and active supporters of the NSDAP, along with their ideological successors, infiltrated academia and set up fake scientific institutions to advance their racist ideology; institutions which still exist to this day. 10/100

The story starts with an eccentric American millionaire named Wickliffe Draper who, having inherited his father’s textile empire and more money than he knew how to spend, became a kind of anti-philanthropist, throwing vast sums of money at various bad causes. 11/100

He became a major donor to the American Eugenics Society and funded the publication of white supremacist literature out of his own pocket. 12/100

His involvement in the cause became more direct after travelling to Nazi Germany to attend the International Congress for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems, presided over b Wilhelm Frick Any guesses as to which populations were the problem? 13/100

Together in 1937, the two men founded the Pioneer Fund, whose purpose was described as that of “race betterment,” a goal they intended to promote by arranging screenings of Nazi propaganda films in the United States. 15/100 http://ferris-pages.org/ISAR/bios/Laughlin/nazifilm.htm …

After the war the appetite for Nazi-style eugenics rapidly faded, and Draper contented retreated to funding the Back to Africa movement, which offered financial incentives for African Americans to leave the United States, alongside a range of pro-segregationist causes. 16/100

In his effort to oppose desegregation, Draper funded Henry Garrett and Carleton Putnam. Garrett, a former President of the American Psychological Association, testified as an expert witness in Brown v. Board of Education and other court cases in support of segregation. 17/100

Putnam was a leading segregationist and populariser of scientific racism as espoused by Garrett and by his cousin, Carleton Coon who was then President of the AAPA, and who was one of the last big names in the old guard of scientific racism. 18/100

The battles over segregation in the fifties had demonstrated the powerful role that science could play in the propaganda war (on both sides) however the scientific consensus was fast turning against the racialist agenda. 19/100

But what if Draper and his allies could make their own, alternative science? And so the Pioneer Fund was reinvented as a private research council, issuing grants to sympathetic researchers and to projects whose results could likely be abused for propaganda purposes. 20/100

Over the decades the Pioneer Fund would issue millions of dollars in grants in the fields of genetics, anthropology and psychology. Some of these recipients were creatures of the Pioneer Fund, often independent “scholars” who were outright neo-Nazis.21/100 http://ferris-pages.org/ISAR/Institut/pioneer/pfspread/homepage.htm …

Others worked within mainstream academia. The factor which united them was that the research being funded was useful in opposing racial equality. And their influence was considerable. 22/100

Among the recipients of their grants was Arthur Jensen, whose research brought the race/IQ controversy back into the mainstream. 23/100

It funded the side projects of the prestigious psychologist Hans Eysenck, who develop an obsession with comparing the IQs of various ethnic groups. At the height of his career, Eysenck was the most widely cited living psychologist. 24/100

It also funded, alongside the Koch foundation, the Minnesota study of twins reared apart, at the time one of the largest adoption studies, which found IQ to be highly heritable. 25/100

Whenever 20th century psychology as a discipline indulged, as it often would, in misguided efforts to weigh the influence nature against nurture, the well-financed Pioneer Fund would be there with its thumb on the scales. 26/100

But even with these successes, getting some of their more outrageous claims published was an uphill battle. Luckily for Draper, and unluckily for the integrity of science, a solution to this problem would be found by one of his young grant recipients from across the pond. 27/100

As a young man Roger Pearson lost much of his family to the war. Such a tragedy would weigh heavily on any young man, but the way in which this affected Pearson was not to leave him with a lasting hatred of the Nazis or of war in general. 28/100

Instead of seeking out a good therapist, he set up the Northern League, a pan-Germanic neo-Nazi group. And began writing articles on the merits of killing the disabled for magazines with subtle names like White Power: The Revolutionary Voice of National Socialism. 30/100

Alongside his British following, which included future British National Party founded John Tyndall, Pearson was joined in the league by many former Nazi party members, including former officers on Heinrich Himmler’s personal staff, and prominent Nazi racial theorists. 31/100