In a 1997 piece for Slate, Nicholas Lemann noted that Murray took the unusual step of sending them only to people handpicked by him and his publisher: http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/articles/1997/01/the_bell_curve_flattened.html
“first wave of publicity was either credulous or angry, but short on evidence, because nobody had had time to digest and evaluate the book carefully.”
“Another handpicked group was flown to Washington at the expense of the American Enterprise Institute and given a weekend-long personal briefing on the book’s contents by Murray himself (Herrnstein had died very recently), just before publication.”
Murray and Herrnstein relied on research from some of the world’s most prominent academic racists. In the December 1, 1994 issue of The New York Review of Books, Charles Lane dissected Murray and Herrnstein’s sources: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1994/12/01/the-tainted-sources-of-the-bell-curve/
“most curious of the sources [Murray] and Herrnstein consulted” was a journal of anthropology called Mankind Quarterly. He pointed out that no fewer than five articles from Mankind Quarterly were cited in the book’s bibliography, and 17 researchers cited by The Bell Curve contributed to the journal.
From Mankind Quarterly‘s white supremacist origins Lane wrote:
Mankind Quarterly was established during decolonization and the US civil rights movement. Defenders of the old order were eager to brush a patina of science on their efforts. Thus Mankind Quarterly‘s avowed purpose was to counter the “Communist” and “egalitarian” influences that were allegedly causing anthropology to neglect the fact of racial differences. “The crimes of the Nazis,” wrote Robert Gayre, Mankind Quarterly’s founder and editor-in-chief until 1978, “did not, however, justify the enthronement of a doctrine of a-racialism as fact, nor of egalitarianism as ethnically and ethically demonstrable.”
Gayre was a champion of apartheid in South Africa, and belonged to the ultra-right Candour League of white-ruled Rhodesia. In 1968, he testified for the defense at the hate speech trial of five members of the British Racial Preservation Society, offering his expert opinion that blacks are “worthless.” The founders of Mankind Quarterly also included Henry E. Garrett of Columbia University, a one-time pamphleteer for the White Citizens’ Councils who provided expert testimony for the defense in Brown v. Board of Education; and Corrado Gini, leader of fascist Italy’s eugenics movement and author of a 1927 Mussolini apologia called “The Scientific Basis of Fascism.”
ABC News in 1994 ran a story about Murray and Herrnstein’s sources who were recipients of grant money from the Pioneer Fund — a eugenicist think tank founded by multimillionaire and white supremacist Wickliffe Draper (1891-1972): http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/049.html
A lot of the Pioneer Fund's donations have gone towards individuals
with a eugenicist slant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Fund
The Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) pointed out in a 1995 report that Richard Lynn, who Murray and Herrnstein used for their conclusions on the IQs of East Asians received $325,000 from the Pioneer Fund. Lynn’s work had been featured in Mankind Quarterly and he had made cryptic statements about “phasing out” what he called “incompetent cultures.”: http://fair.org/extra/racism-resurgent/
Murray and Herrnstein describe Lynn as “a leading scholar of racial and ethnic differences.” Here’s a sample of Lynn’s thinking on such differences (cited in Newsday, 11/9/94): “What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the population of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of the ‘phasing out’ of such peoples…. Evolutionary progress means the extinction of the less competent. To think otherwise is mere sentimentality.”
Another source named Arthur Jensen (1923-2012) received $1,000,000 from the Pioneer Fund, and once said that eugenics “isn’t a crime.” Jensen also worried that “current welfare policies, unaided by genetic foresight, could lead to the genetic enslavement of a substantial portion of our population.” Murray and Herrnstein praised Jensen, claiming that they “benefited especially from” his work, and called him a “giant in the profession.” http://fair.org/extra/racism-resurgent/
Another person whose advice Murray and Herrnstein “benefitted especially from”—and who shows up constantly in their footnotes—is Arthur Jensen, whose very similar claims about blacks having innately lower IQs were widely discredited in the 1970s. The Pioneer Fund has given more than $1 million to this “giant in the profession,” as Pioneer chief Weyher describes him (GQ, 11/94). And it’s easy to see why: “Eugenics isn’t a crime,” Jensen has said (Newsday, 11/9/94). “Which is worse, to deprive someone of having a child, or to deprive the child of having a decent set of parents?”
Elsewhere, Jensen (cited in Counterpunch, 11/1/94) has worried “that current welfare policies, unaided by genetic foresight, could lead to the genetic enslavement of a substantial portion of our population.”
Richard Lynn also has ties to both the Pioneer Fund AND Murray: http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2011/08/devastating-criticism-of-richard-lynn.html
Lynn also comes to the defense of Murray several times to deflect from accusations of academic racism: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/02/02/the-bell-curve-and-its-sources-2/
Additionally Lynn has himself advocated for a white ethnostate in a right-wing magazine:
I think the only solution lies in the breakup of the United States. Blacks and Hispanics are concentrated in the Southwest, the Southeast and the East, but the Northwest and the far Northeast, Maine, Vermont and upstate New York have a large predominance of whites. I believe these predominantly white states should declare independence and secede from the Union. They would then enforce strict border controls and provide minimum welfare, which would be limited to citizens. If this were done, white civilization would survive within this handful of states."
and on, and on, and on.
At no point have I ever seen this mentioned in any of these numerous discussions
This poisons the entire "sincerity" hacks like Murray have managed to skate by on.
ここには何もないようです