#RaceScience

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People (6)

Arthur Jensen Berkeley educational psychologist whose 1969 Harvard Educational Review article on IQ and race was inserted in the Congressional Record and who is named on the Pioneer Fund's own list of grantees.
Charles Murray Charles Murray is an American political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute whose 1994 book The Bell Curve argued that intelligence is largely hereditary and varies by race, a thesis widely condemned as scientific racism that became foundational to the human-biodiversity current in the rationalist and tech-right milieus.
J. Philippe Rushton J. Philippe Rushton was a British-Canadian psychologist at the University of Western Ontario and president of the Pioneer Fund whose book Race, Evolution, and Behavior applied r/K selection theory to claim a racial hierarchy of intelligence and behavior, work the scientific community condemned as racist and methodologically flawed.
Richard Lynn Richard Lynn was a British psychologist who promoted hereditarian claims about racial and national differences in intelligence and 'dysgenics,' ran the Pioneer Fund and the Ulster Institute for Social Research, and whose national-IQ data was repudiated as fundamentally flawed.
Sam Harris Sam Harris is an American neuroscientist, New Atheist author, and host of the Making Sense podcast, a registrant of Peter Thiel's Dialog society whose 2017 Forbidden Knowledge episode platformed Charles Murray's race-and-IQ claims and provoked a public dispute with Ezra Klein over race science.
Steve Sailer Steve Sailer is an American journalist and blogger who popularized the term human biodiversity, founded its discussion network in the late 1990s, and originated the white-turnout 'Sailer Strategy,' becoming a connective figure between hereditarian race science and the alt-right.

Organizations (3)

Mankind Quarterly Mankind Quarterly is a journal founded in 1960-1961 with Pioneer Fund money to publish hereditarian race-and-intelligence research that mainstream journals rejected, widely described as a cornerstone of the scientific-racism establishment.
Pioneer Fund New York foundation created in 1937 by Wickliffe Draper to promote eugenics, which became the main financier of race and intelligence research in the United States and of many scholars cited in The Bell Curve.
Ulster Institute for Social Research London publisher and research sponsor founded by Richard Lynn, paid 609,000 dollars by the Pioneer Fund from 1990 to 1996 and the publisher of Mankind Quarterly from January 2015.

Events (1)

London Conference on Intelligence The London Conference on Intelligence was a secret invitation-only eugenics conference held at University College London from 2014 to 2017, organized by James Thompson and dominated by figures tied to the Pioneer Fund and Mankind Quarterly, exposed in 2018 in a scandal that ended several academic careers.

Concepts (2)

Eugenics Eugenics is the project of improving the human species through controlled reproduction, named by Francis Galton in 1883, which drove sterilization and immigration laws and the Holocaust, was repackaged after the war as race-and-intelligence research, and is identified by critics as a root of the transhumanist and longtermist worldview.
Human Biodiversity Human biodiversity (HBD) is a euphemism for hereditarian race science, popularized by Steve Sailer in the late 1990s, asserting genetically rooted differences in intelligence and behavior between racial groups, that became a connective doctrine linking the rationalist community, neoreaction, and the alt-right.