‍"How is it possible for institutions to be shocked at having racists on their staff or for journals to plead innocence when racists write for them when these individuals make no effort to hide their views?"

Impressionante ricostruzione di Angela Saini di tutti quegli psicologi che, al soldo del Pioneer Fund, hanno portato avanti (e continuano a farlo) ideologie razziste. Per radicarsi nella comunità scientifica (spalleggiati da movimenti di estrema destra) hanno profondamente corrotto i metodi di valutazione dell'intelligenza, creando degli indici confezionati agli scopi ma che non hanno niente a che fare con l'esame standardizzato che porta al quoziente intellettivo.
L'articolo fa parte di una preziosa serie pubblicata su Undark di Deborah Blum e curata proprio da Angela Saini con Ashley Smart

"Both Elsevier journals, Intelligence and Personality and Individual Differences, have become clearing houses for those closely connected to The Mankind Quarterly and the Pioneer Fund, routinely publishing articles about psychological and behavioral differences between races."

"Publishing is one side of the research coin. The other is funding. And following a temporary hiatus, Wickliffe Draper’s Pioneer Fund is still in business. [...]By 2020, though, they had risen again to almost $300,000 — suggesting that money was coming in from somewhere."

"In the meantime, politically motivated work continues to be published by journal groups that are supposed to maintain the highest ethical standards for the sake of public trust in science."

The Philanthropic Wellspring of Modern Race Science https://race.undark.org/articles/drapers-millions-the-philanthropic-wellspring-of-modern-race-science