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66 Alb. L. Rev. 207 (2002-2003)
The Pioneer Fund and the Scientific Study of Human Differences

handle is hein.journals/albany66 and id is 227 raw text is: COMMENTARY THE PIONEER FUND AND THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF HUMAN DIFFERENCES J. Philippe Rushton* IN TRODU CTION ................................................................................ 209 A. For the Record ...................................... 209 B. A Roster of Distinguished Americans ............................. 212 C. Pioneer's Contributions to the Science of Human D iversity .......................................................................... 2 17 I. ARE LOMBARDO'S CHARGES CREDIBLE? ................................ 223 A. Is the Bell Curve really Link(ed) to the Holocaust? .... 224 B. Was Laughlin Really Preoccupied With German E ugenics? ........................................................................ 226 C. Did Pioneer Grants Really Support White S up rem acy ? .................................................................... 228 D. Did Laughlin Really Define The American Breed to E xclude Jew s? .............................................................. 232 E. Is Truth About Race No Defense? A Personal Note ....... 233 II. PROVIDING THE NECESSARY CONTEXT .................................. 235 A . The Scientific Context ..................................................... 236 B. The Eugenics Context ..................................................... 238 C. The H istorical Context .................................................... 242 III. UNDERSTANDING THE ANIMUS AGAINST THE PIONEER F U N D ............................................................................... 243 A. The Nature-Nurture Wars .............................................. 244 *J. Philippe Rushton, B.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.B.Ps.S. is President of the Pioneer Fund Inc., a New York not-for-profit corporation supporting research into human variation. A professor of psychology at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, he received all his degrees from the University of London, including a Ph.D. in social psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of five books and 200 articles, and is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Psychological Association. He thanks Clare Bunche and the archivists at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island for access to their library holdings. The opinions presented, of course, are his own.