From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Thu Jun 17 2004 - 05:20:53 BST
Hi all,
The single link provided by Vogel in support of his claim that there
is a scientific basis for judging some "races" inferior to others is
to a heavily abridged version of J. Phillipe Ruston's book "Race,
Evolution, and Behavior," first published in 1995. If Ruston is the
best Vogel has to offer then his position is sorry indeed.
Ruston is (or was) a professor of psychology at the University of
Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. He has NO training in
genetics or biology, or any other hard science. Most important, his
"research" is bought and paid for by the Pioneer Fund, which I know a
little about, and which was described by the London Sunday Telegraph
(3/12/89) as a "neo-Nazi organization closely integrated with the far
right in American politics." The fund's mission is to promote
eugenics, a philosophy that maintains that "genetically unfit"
individuals or races are a threat to society.
According to FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) the Pioneer
Fund was set up in 1937 by Wickliffe Draper, a millionaire who
advocated sending blacks back to Africa. The foundation's charter set
forth the group's missions as "racial betterment" and aid for people
"deemed to be descended primarily from white persons who settled in
the original 13 states prior to the adoption of the Constitution of
the United States." (In 1985, after Pioneer Fund grant recipients
began receiving political heat, the charter was slightly amended to
play down the race angle--GQ, 11/94.)
The fund's first president, Harry Laughlin, was an influential
advocate of sterilization for those he considered genetically unfit.
In successfully advocating laws that would restrict immigrants from
Southern and Eastern Europe, Laughlin testified before Congress that
83 percent of Jewish immigrants were innately feeble-minded (Rolling
Stone, 10/20/94). Another founder, Frederick Osborn, described Nazi
Germany's sterilization law as "a most exciting experiment."
(Discovery Journal, 7/9/94)
The fund's president as of 1995, Harry Weyher, denounced the Supreme
Court decision that desegregated schools, saying, "All Brown did was
wreck the school system." (GQ, 11/94) The fund's treasurer, John
Trevor, formerly served as treasurer for the crypto-fascist Coalition
of Patriotic Societies, when it called in 1962 for the release of
Nazi war criminals and praised South Africa's "well-reasoned racial
policies." (Rolling Stone, 10/20/94)
One of the Pioneer Fund's largest current grantees (as of 1995) was
Roger Pearson, an activist and publisher who has been associated with
international fascist currents. Pearson has written: "If a nation
with a more advanced, more specialized, or in any way superior set of
genes mingles with, instead of exterminating, an inferior tribe, then
it commits racial suicide." (Russ Bellant, Old Nazis, the New Right
and the Republican Party).
Rushton (who's gotten more than $770,000 from Pioneer, as of 1995,
considerably more by now, I would think) has transformed the
Victorian science of cranial measurement into a sexual fetish--
measuring not only head and brain size, but also the size of breasts,
buttocks and genitals. "It's a trade-off: More brain or more penis.
You can't have everything," he told Rolling Stone's Adam Miller
(10/20/94), explaining his philosophy of evolution.
Rushton was reprimanded by his school, the University of Western
Ontario, for accosting people in a local shopping mall and asking
them how big their penises were and how far they could ejaculate. "A
zoologist doesn't need permission to study squirrels in his
backyard," he groused (Rolling Stone, 10/20/94).
Rushton's creepy obsessions intersect with the ugliest sides of
politics: A 1986 article by Rushton suggested that the Nazi war
machine owed its prowess to racial purity, and worried that
demographic shifts were endangering our "Northern European"
civilization. Rushton co-authored a paper that argued that blacks
have a genetic propensity to contract AIDS because of their
"reproductive strategy" of promiscuous sex (cited in Newsday,
11/9/94).
http://www.fair.org/extra/9501/bell.html
Thanks to all,
Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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