Most of us here know this now, but eugenics never went away. After World War II, eugenicists simply rebranded themselves. Groups such as the Pioneer Fund (founded by a Nazi) have promoted disproven racial science for decades. The Bell Curve drew heavily from “research” financed by the Pioneer Fund.

The Pioneer Fund was founded by Wickliffe Draper, an American Nazi. One of its first projects was to fund the distribution of Erbkrank, a Nazi propaganda film about eugenics, in American schools and churches in the late 1930s. The film was meant to drum up support for Aktion T4 in Germany. In the mid-1960s, Draper also contributed $255,000 (over $2.26 million in 2025) to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, a Neo-Confederate group dedicated to resisting desegregation.