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### Pioneer Fund Presidency
Rushton received more than a million dollars in Pioneer Fund grants over his career, money he used in part to buy out his teaching duties, and in 2002 he became president of the fund, the [[Wickliffe Draper|Draper]]-founded foundation that has financed race-and-intelligence research since 1937. He served until shortly before his death, when he nominated the psychologist [[Richard Lynn]] as his successor. His r/K framework and his collaborations with Lynn appeared in the journal [[Mankind Quarterly]], and his work supplied citations for [[Charles Murray]] and [[Richard Herrnstein]]'s *The Bell Curve* and for the [[Human Biodiversity|human-biodiversity]] network associated with [[Steve Sailer]].[^1][^5]
Rushton received more than a million dollars in Pioneer Fund grants over his career, money he used in part to buy out his teaching duties, and in 2002 he became president of the fund, the [[Wickliffe Draper|Draper]]-founded foundation that has financed race-and-intelligence research since 1937. He served until shortly before his death, when he nominated the psychologist [[Richard Lynn]] as his successor. His r/K framework and his collaborations with Lynn appeared in the journal [[Mankind Quarterly]], and his work supplied citations for [[Charles Murray]] and [[Richard Herrnstein]]'s *[[The Bell Curve]]* and for the [[Human Biodiversity|human-biodiversity]] network associated with [[Steve Sailer]].[^1][^5]
Born in Bournemouth, England in 1943, Rushton took a doctorate from the [[London School of Economics]] in 1973, taught at [[York University]] and the [[University of Toronto]], and moved to Western Ontario, where he was made full professor in 1985. After Harry Weyher's death he became Pioneer Fund president in 2002 and channeled much of the fund's money to his own Charles Darwin Research Institute in Port Huron, [[Michigan]]; tax records show that the institute received $473,835 in 2002, roughly 73 percent of the fund's grants that year. He died of cancer in London, Ontario, on October 2, 2012.[^1][^9]
Born in Bournemouth, England in 1943, Rushton took a doctorate from the [[London School of Economics]] in 1973, taught at [[York University]] and the [[University of Toronto]], and moved to Western Ontario, where he was made full professor in 1985. After [[Harry Weyher]]'s death he became Pioneer Fund president in 2002 and channeled much of the fund's money to his own Charles Darwin Research Institute in Port Huron, [[Michigan]]; tax records show that the institute received $473,835 in 2002, roughly 73 percent of the fund's grants that year. He died of cancer in London, Ontario, on October 2, 2012.[^1][^9]
### Scientific Condemnation
Reviewers across psychology and biology dismissed *Race, Evolution, and Behavior*. The University of Washington psychologist [[David Barash]] wrote that "bad science and virulent racial prejudice drip like pus from nearly every page" of the book. In 2020 the psychology department at the University of Western Ontario issued a statement saying much of Rushton's research "was racist," was "deeply flawed from a scientific standpoint," and showed how "the impact of flawed science lingers on." By 2021 several of his articles had been retracted as scientifically flawed, unethical, and not replicable.[^2][^6]
In June 2020 the journal *[[Personality and Individual Differences]]* retracted a 2012 paper Rushton coauthored with [[Donald Templer]] that linked skin pigmentation to aggression and sexuality, and in December 2020 the journal *Psychological Reports* retracted two further Rushton papers from 1990 and 1991 on race and brain size, with the notice citing a misunderstanding of human genetic variation, the inappropriate application of ecological theory to human populations, the misuse of heritability, and the failure to replicate his findings. The wave of retractions reflected a broader reckoning across psychology with hereditarian work funded by the Pioneer Fund.[^6][^10]
In June 2020 the journal *[[Personality and Individual Differences]]* retracted a 2012 paper Rushton coauthored with [[Donald Templer]] that linked skin pigmentation to aggression and sexuality, and in December 2020 the journal *[[Psychological Reports]]* retracted two further Rushton papers from 1990 and 1991 on race and brain size, with the notice citing a misunderstanding of human genetic variation, the inappropriate application of ecological theory to human populations, the misuse of heritability, and the failure to replicate his findings. The wave of retractions reflected a broader reckoning across psychology with hereditarian work funded by the Pioneer Fund.[^6][^10]
### Footnotes