Pioneer Fund (foundation)

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The Pioneer Fund is an American foundation founded in 1937 "to promote the scientific study of heredity and human differences."

The declared aim of the fund is to support projects that have difficulties in finding other funding because of the controversial research topic. Scientists have criticized the find as racist , assigned it to the white supremacy ideology and categorized it as a hate group .

Psychology professor John Philippe Rushton headed the fund from 2002 until his death in 2012 . Richard Lynn has been running the Pioneer Fund together with Gerhard Meisenberg since 2013 .

Studies funded include the Minnesota Twin Family Study and the Texas Adoption Project, as well as research that went into The Bell Curve , published in 1994 .

The find is also criticized for its proximity to eugenics when it was founded .

literature

  • Stefan Kühl : The Nazi Connection Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism . Oxford University Press, Oxford Oxfordshire 1994, ISBN 0-19-514978-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/pioneer-fund
  2. ^ Avner Falk: Anti-semitism. A history and psychoanalysis of contemporary hatred. Abc-Clio, 2008, p. 18.
  3. ^ William H. Tucker: The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund . University of Illinois Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-252-07463-9 (English, muse.jhu.edu [accessed July 26, 2013] review by Diane B. Paul).
  4. ^ Andrew Wroe: The Republican party and immigration politics: from Proposition 187 to George W. Bush. University of Illinois Press, 2008, p. 81.
  5. ^ Southern Poverty Law Center: Active White Nationalist Groups (accessed 2014).
  6. ^ Heidi Beirich: Pioneer Fund Assets Divided; New Leadership Appointed . In: Hatewatch . Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
  7. ↑ It might be a pseudo science, but students take the threat of eugenics seriously. May 5, 2019, accessed August 1, 2019 .
  8. ^ Nancy L. Segal: Born together - reared apart: the landmark Minnesota twin study . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass 2012, ISBN 978-0-674-05546-9 . - Bryan Caplan: O Brother, Who Art Thou? In: The Wall Street Journal. June 20, 2012. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .
  9. ^ Paul A. Lombardo: "The American Breed": Nazi eugenics and the origins of the Pioneer Fund . In: Albany Law Rev . 65, No. 3, 2002, pp. 743-830. PMID 11998853 .
    J. Philippe Rushton: The Pioneer Fund and the Scientific Study of Human Differences Archived from the original on March 27, 2013. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF): Albany Law Rev . 66, 2002, p. 209. Retrieved October 26, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / psychology.uwo.ca
    Paul A. Lombardo: Pioneer's Big Lie . In: Albany Law Rev . 66, 2002, p. 1125.
    William H. Tucker: A Closer Look at the Pioneer Fund: Response to Rushton . In: Albany Law Rev . 66, 2002, p. 1145.