An American Racist in Berlin
Summary
Host Molly Conger traces the origins of modern "race realist" pseudoscience to the Pioneer Fund, established by wealthy eugenicist Wickliffe Draper. The episode details Draper’s networking at a 1935 Nazi-sponsored conference and his collaboration with Harry Laughlin to fund research justifying white supremacy. Conger argues that influential works like *The Bell Curve* rely on this tainted, Draper-funded lineage to legitimize racist ideologies under the guise of science.
Topics discussed
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1935 Berlin eugenics conference and Nazi ties
Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund origins
Load-bearing posts and race realist rhetoric
Critique of The Bell Curve and scientific racism
Pioneer Fund citations in The Bell Curve
Andrew Sullivan and mainstreaming racist science
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Wickliffe Draper's background and wealth
Draper's funding of eugenics and Nazi propaganda
Harry Laughlin, sterilization laws, and Nazi films
US medical abuses and Pioneer Fund's anti-integration goals
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