Reply #28: Here's some info on the groups that provided the data for much of the Bell Curve's findings

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Much of the Bell Curve's evidence was http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/019.html">based on the "research" from the publication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankind_Quarterly">Mankind Quarterly, which has been often charged with being pseudo-scientific publication that provides "scientific" evidence for white supremacist ideology. One of its founders is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Pearson">Roger Pearson, a "racialist" from Europe brought over to the US by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Carto">Willis Carto of the far-Right http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Lobby">Liberty Lobby. Pearson was both an editor of the Heritage Foundation's Policy Review publication in the 70's and ran the US branch of Reverend Moon's World Anti-Communist League (WACL) around this same time (Pearson had to step down Policy Review when the WaPo reported on all the fascists infesting WACL).

Mankind Quarterly is funded by the rather http://www.pioneerfund.org/Controversies.html">controversial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Fund">Pioneer Fund, which Pearson is also http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/047.html">closely affiliated with. Some other notable figures from the Pioneer Fund include Tom Ellis (here's http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=3142435&mesg_id=3150201">more on him) and J. Phillip Rushton, who http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=3142435&mesg_id=3142435">recently made an appearance on CNN discussing research that showed males are, on average, more intelligence the females. This is all part of the larger and http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=173120&mesg_id=173120">older history of far-Right groups promoting fascistic agendas.