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His work has been heavily criticised by the scientific community, and it has been widely described as racist, as has the Pioneer Fund, the research foundation he has been head of since 2002.
However, many of these researchers are controversial in their own right, and all of them have also received money from the Pioneer Fund, which had already funded much of Rushton's work when these reviews were written.
Since 2002, Rushton has been the president of the Pioneer Fund.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, an American civil rights organization, characterizes the Pioneer Fund as a hate group .< ref >
Many of the leading hereditarians, mostly psychologists, have received funding from the Pioneer Fund with Rushton as its current head.
The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the Pioneer Fund as a hate group, citing the fund's history, its funding of race and intelligence research, and its connections with racist individuals.
" Other sources and researches have criticized the Pioneer Fund for promoting scientific racism, eugenics and white supremacy.
The intentionally small business district includes a few restaurants ( Buck's, Woodside Bakery & Cafe, and The Village Pub ), a grocery store ( Roberts Market ), a saloon ( the historic Pioneer Saloon ), a hardware and horse tack store ( Roberts Hardware and Tack ), an art gallery and picture framing store ( Woodside Gallery ), a home and garden store ( Emily Joubert ), realtors ( Carey Realty, Coldwell Banker, Alain Pinel, Remax ), a few venture capital funds ( including Crosspoint Ventures, Tenaya Capital, and The Photonics Fund ), a cleaner, a post office, and an educational consulting and tutoring company ( Cardinal Education ).
Morgan III, Morgan family heir, Pioneer Fund director, grandson / namesake of the NY governor and U. S. Senator
On October 2007, Hyperlink Investments Group sold its stock in Jaleco Holding to Game Yarou ( an online game company ) and to two different Korean companies: STIC Pioneer Fund and A2i Co Ltd.
The J. Mack Gamble Fund of the Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen and the Friends and Descendants of the Sultana sponsored a mural by Louisiana artist Robert Dafford and his crew entitled The Sultana Departs from Vicksburg as one of the Vicksburg Riverfront Murals.
In 1937, Harlan was one of five founders of the controversial Pioneer Fund, a group associated with eugenics advocacy, and served on its board for long time.
The Pioneer Fund is an American non-profit foundation established in 1937 " to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences.
Two of the most notable studies funded by the Pioneer Fund are the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart and the Texas Adoption Project, which studied the similarities and differences of identical twins and other children adopted into non-biological families.
The Pioneer Fund has also been an important source of funding for research on the partly genetic hypothesis of IQ variation among races.
The Pioneer Fund was incorporated on March 11, 1937.
He founded the Pioneer Fund after having acquired an interest in the Eugenics movement, which was strengthened by his 1935 visit to Nazi Germany, where he met with the leading eugenicists of the Third Reich who used the inspiration from the American movement as a basis for the Nuremberg Laws.
Psychology professor and Pioneer Fund critic William H. Tucker, however, describes Draper as someone who " aside from his brief periods of military service ... never pursued a profession or held a job of any kind.
He served as the president of the Pioneer Fund from its inception until 1941.
Harlan's firm had done legal work for the Pioneer Fund.
The 1937 incorporation documents of the Pioneer Fund list two purposes.
The Pioneer Fund argues the " race betterment " has always referred to the " human race " referred to earlier in the sentence, and critics argue it referred to racial groups.
The Pioneer Fund supported the distribution of a eugenics film titled Erbkrank (" Hereditary Defective " or " Hereditary Illness ") which was published by the pre-war 1930s Nazi Party.
William Draper obtained the film from the predecessor to the Nazi Office of Racial Policy ( Rassenpolitisches Amt ) prior to the founding of the Pioneer Fund.
According to the Pioneer Fund site, all founders capable of doing so participated in the war against the Nazis.

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Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.
Pioneer Hi-Bred has marketed corn hybrids with tolerance to imidazoline herbicides under the trademark " Clearfield "-though in these hybrids, the herbicide-tolerance trait was bred using tissue culture selection and the chemical mutagen ethyl methanesulfonate not genetic engineering.
Originally called the Pioneer Mill, it was built by John R. Yale.
Sagan assembled the first physical message that was sent into space: a gold-anodized plaque, attached to the space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972.
Pioneer 11, also carrying another copy of the plaque, was launched the following year.
Its organization was subdivided into communist parties of the constituent Soviet republics as well as the mass youth organisation, the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League ( Komsomol ) and, for children, the Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union.
This highly publicized tournament included hula hoops as holes, published, rules, hole lengths, pars, penalties, Wham-O prizes and, an event in which Fred Morrison, the Frisbee inventor was in attendance ( see article published in the fall issue of Discgolfer Magazine " Disc Golf's Unknown Pioneer " www. omagdigital. com / display_article. php? id = 835174 ).
The design of the instrument was based on that of an instrument flown on the Pioneer Venus spacecraft.
PTP made US news in August 2002 when their hotspot at Pioneer Courthouse Square was blocked by a for-fee hotspot at a nearby Starbucks coffee shop.
In 1963 Jacques-André Istel from Pioneer Parachute Company bought a license from Lemoigne to manufacture and sell the 24-gore ascending-gliding parachute which was trade-named " parasail ".
A new production, with a revised libretto by David Rambo, was produced by the Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, Utah and ran from September 28, 2007, through October 13, 2007.
The Pioneer program is a series of United States unmanned space missions that was designed for planetary exploration.
He suggested " Pioneer " as the name of the probe since " the Army had already launched and orbited the Explorer satellite and their Public Information Office was identifying the Army as ' Pioneers in Space ,'" and by adopting the name the Air Force would " make a ' quantum jump ' as to who really the ' Pioneers in space.
In 2007 he was posthumously awarded the Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award by the Academy of Country Music.
On June 20, 2007, Jennings was posthumously awarded the Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award by the Academy of Country Music.
NATO's deployment of these missiles was a response to the Soviet deployment of the SS-20 Pioneer, which could hit most European NATO bases within minutes of launch.
Following a private service, a public memorial was held on June 1, in Pioneer Park, in Nevada City.
In October 2006, Gabriel was given the first Pioneer Award at the BT Digital Music Awards, an award presented in recognition of his " profound and lasting influence on the development of digital music.
Pioneers Palace-After it was banned, the Pioneer organization had its property confiscated.
* Cuba ( José Martí Pioneer Organization ) Established in 1961 ; in 2001 it was elected to the Global 500 Roll of Honour of the United Nations Environment Programme for its environmental activities.
As the test was successful, the Fast Patrol Boats Bold Pioneer and Bold Pathfinder built in 1953 were the first ships created specifically for gas turbine propulsion.
The US Navy bought the AAI Pioneer UAV that was jointly developed by American AAI Corporation and Israeli Mazlat, this type of drone is still in use.
The trapped radiation was first mapped out by Explorer 4, Pioneer 3 and Luna 1.

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