# Pioneer fund president is dead

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**Created:** [October 6, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pioneer-fund-president-is-dead/636907 "2012-10-06T15:30:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pioneer-fund-president-is-dead/636907/1 "2012-10-06T15:30:50Z")

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> Jean Philippe Rushton, a psychology professor and probably the most important race scientist in North America, died of cancer Tuesday night in Canada. The man who sparked a firestorm of controversy and protest in the late 1980s with his theories about the correlation between genital size and intelligence, and in later years was the head of a right-wing fund that has long supported the research projects of academic racists from around the world, was 68.

]([http://www.salon.com/2012/10/06/leading\_race\_scientist\_dies\_in\_canada/singleton/](http://www.salon.com/2012/10/06/leading_race_scientist_dies_in_canada/singleton/))Out of all the dwindling academic racialists that are left I thought either [Lynn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn) or [Vanhanen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatu_Vanhanen) would be the first to go. [How](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Brand)[ever](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Cochran) [there](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Sarich)’s [no](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Gottfredson) “[spring](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Miele) [chickens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Jensen)” [in](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Murray_(author)) [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Travis_Osborne) [camp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intelligence#Signatories).