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### Pioneer Fund and the Race-Science Network
Lynn received Pioneer Fund money over many years, and on the death of the psychologist [[J. Philippe Rushton]] in 2012 he became the fund's president. His Ulster Institute publishes Mankind Quarterly, and his contributors and associates overlapped with those of the secret [[London Conference on Intelligence]] held at [[University College London]] from 2014 to 2017, including [[Emil Kirkegaard]], who ran the non-peer-reviewed [[OpenPsych]] repository. His hereditarian framework belongs to the literature popularized by [[Charles Murray]] and [[Richard Herrnstein]]'s *The Bell Curve* and circulated through the [[Human Biodiversity|human-biodiversity]] current associated with [[Steve Sailer]], and his "national IQ" figures were widely reproduced in the [[Neoreaction|neoreactionary]] and [[Curtis Yarvin|Yarvin]]-adjacent online right.[^2][^5]
Lynn received Pioneer Fund money over many years, and on the death of the psychologist [[J. Philippe Rushton]] in 2012 he became the fund's president. His Ulster Institute publishes Mankind Quarterly, and his contributors and associates overlapped with those of the secret [[London Conference on Intelligence]] held at [[University College London]] from 2014 to 2017, including [[Emil Kirkegaard]], who ran the non-peer-reviewed [[OpenPsych]] repository. His hereditarian framework belongs to the literature popularized by [[Charles Murray]] and [[Richard Herrnstein]]'s *[[The Bell Curve]]* and circulated through the [[Human Biodiversity|human-biodiversity]] current associated with [[Steve Sailer]], and his "national IQ" figures were widely reproduced in the [[Neoreaction|neoreactionary]] and [[Curtis Yarvin|Yarvin]]-adjacent online right.[^2][^5]
Lynn's stated aims went beyond research into explicit advocacy. Reviewing [[Raymond Cattell]]'s 1972 tract *A New Morality from Science: Beyondism* in 1974, he wrote that "what is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the populations of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of the 'phasing out' of such peoples." In *Eugenics: A Reassessment* (2001) he argued that the postwar condemnation of eugenics had gone too far and that selective breeding and biotechnology should be used to raise intelligence and reduce genetic disease. The Southern Poverty Law Center quoted these passages in classifying him as among the most unapologetic of self-described scientific racists.[^9]