Pioneer Fund - Current funding - Encyclopedia II

Most of the Pioneer Fund's grants go to scientific research, including to researchers at 38 universities, and a smaller amount has gone to political or legal organizations, mostly to immigration reform/reduction organizations. This section's figures are from 1971-1996 and are adjusted to 1997 USD. (Complete listing, 1971-1996)

Many of the researchers supporting the partially-hereditary hypothesis of the racial IQ disparity found in intelligence research have received grants of varying sizes from the Pioneer Fund.[8]. Large grantees, in order of amount received, are Thomas J. Bouchard at the University of Minnesota, Arthur Jensen at the Institute for the Study of Educational Differences, J. Phillipe Rushton at the U of Western Ontario, Roger Pearson at the Institute for the Study of Man, Richard Lynn at Ulster Institute for Social Research, and Linda Gottfredson at the U of Delaware. Lynn is also on the editorial board of Mankind Quarterly. Other notable recipients of funding include: Hans Eysenck, Lloyd Humphreys, Joseph M. Horn, Robert Gordon, Garrett Hardin, R. Travis Osborne, Audrey M. Shuey, and Philip A. Vernon.

As compiled in 1997, the recipient of the largest amount of funding ($2.3 million USD) was Thomas J. Bouchard's landmark twin study, the Minnesota Study of Identical Twins Reared Apart (MISTRA), better known as the Minnesota Twins Project. The Minnesota Twins Project compared identical and fraternal twins who had been brought up in different families. Another notable twin study that was partially funded by the fund is the Texas Adoption Project, which compared adopted children to their birth and adopted families. The studies, along with similar studies, have demonstrated that as much as half of intelligence and personality are inherited (See Intelligence quotient#Genetics vs environment).

Rushton is a central advocate of genetic differences between races in race and intelligence research and the current head of the fund since 2002. In 1999, Rushton used some of his grant money from the Pioneer fund to send out tens of thousands of copies of his controversial book Race, Evolution, and Behavior to social scientists in anthropology, psychology, and sociology, causing a great controversy [9]. The book advocates Rushton's controversial differential K theory.

Eugenicist and anthropologist Roger Pearson, founder of the Journal of Indo-European Studies[10], received over a million dollars in grants in the eighties and the nineties.[11][12] Using the pseudonym of Stephan Langton, Pearson was the editor of The New Patriot, a short-lived magazine published in 1966-67 to conduct "a responsible but penetrating inquiry into every aspect of the Jewish Question," which included articles such as "Zionists and the Plot Against South Africa," "Early Jews and the Rise of Jewish Money Power," and "Swindlers of the Crematoria." [13]. The Northern League, an organization founded in England in 1958 Pearson supported Nazi ideologies and included former members of the Nazi Party [14].

William Shockley, winner of the Nobel prize in physics in 1956, received a series of grants In the 1970s. Shockley became famous in his later career for supporting the controversial genetic hypothesis of race and intelligence research and for being a proponent of eugenics.

The Fund has given significant support to immigration reductionist organizations, primarily to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), but also to the American Immigration Control Foundation (AICF), and ProjectUSA. During the campaign over California's Proposition 187 critics noted that the Pioneer Fund was channeling money in favor of the initiative through contributions to the FAIR. [15]

A controversial minor grantee is the paleoconservative and white nationalist journalist Jared Taylor, the editor of American Renaissance and a member the advisory board of the white nationalist publication the Occidental Quarterly. [16] Many of the key academic white nationalists in both Right Now! and American Renaissance have been funded by the Pioneer and the Pioneer was directly involved in funding the parent organization of American Renaissance, the New Century Foundation. [17]

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