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Roger Pearson (born 1927) is a British eugenics advocate and editor of several scholarly journals published by the Institute for the Study of Man.
Life and work
Originally from Great Britain, in 1958 Pearson founded the Northern League "to foster the interests, friendship and solidarity of all Teutonic nations." He recruited Hans Günther, who received awards under the National Socialist regime for his work on race, Ernest Cox of the Ku Klux Klan, and Dr. Wilhelm Kesserow, a former SS officer.
He joined the Eugenics Society in 1963 and became a fellow in 1977.
Pearson was brought to the United States in 1965 by Willis Carto, founder of the neo-fascist Institute for Historical Review (a Holocaust denial group) and the anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby, which publishes the weekly Spotlight newspaper.
In 1977, he joined the editorial board of Policy Review, the monthly Heritage Foundation publication in 1977. The Coors Connection notes in a caption under an illustration of Pearson's Eugenics And Race: "Dr. Roger Pearson's racialist theories are circulated worldwide by neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizations." (Bellant 1989)
Roger Pearson became chairman of the World Anti-Communist League and was responsible for flooding European chapters with Nazi sympathizers and former Nazi SS officers. In 1978 he organized the 11th Conference of the World Anti-Communist League, but he later resigned after being accused of membership in several Nazi groups. Pearson left the Heritage Foundation after a Washington Post expose of the racist/fascist orientation of the World Anti-Communist League. Pearson chaired the American branch, the Council on American Affairs from 1975-80, as well as the WACL from 1978-79.
Pearson also held the directorship of the Institute for the Study of Man, a group which received $869,500 between 1981 and 1996 from the Pioneer Fund (Mehler 1998) and which under Pearson acquired the peer-reviewed journal Mankind Quarterly in 1978. Pearson simultaneously took over as editor and has remained editor through to the present day, though his name has never appeared on the masthead. [http://www.ferris.edu/isar/archives/rushton Pearson has used diverse pseudonyms to contribute to the journal including, J.W. Jamieson. Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele's advisor, Otmar von Verschuer, was on the editorial advisory board of this journal before his death in 1970. The institute also prints the Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies and the Journal of Indo-European Studies and has the Scott-Townsend book imprint. In the editing of the Journal of Indo-European Studies he is assisted by JP Mallory.
Publications
- 1991 Race, Intelligence and Bias in Academe
- Essays on Eugenics and Race. 1958, Northern World, Coventry
- Mankind Quarterly 1960
- The Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans. 1966, 1967 Hans Gunther, trans. by Vivian Bird (See Oliver Bird Trust and George Cadbury) in collaboration with Roger Pearson
References
- Kelsey T, Howard T. "Academics were funded by racist American trust." The Independent on Sunday, 4 March 1990 Home section p. 4
- Mehler B. "The Funding of the Science" Searchlight July 1998:
- Russ Bellant, The Coors Connection (South End Press, 1989), p. 2; John Saloma, Ominous Politics (NY: Hill & Wang, 1984), p. 8.
External links
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