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Roger Pearson (born 21 August 1927〔(ISAR. Transcript )〕) is a British anthropologist, soldier, businessman, eugenics advocate, political organiser for the extreme right, and publisher of political and academic journals. He has been on the faculty of the Queens College, Charlotte and University of Southern Mississippi, and Montana Tech, and is now retired. It has been noted that Pearson has been surprisingly successful in combining a career in academics with political activities on the far right.〔"Pearson has succeeded in combining such right-wing politics with a conventional academic career." – Kühl, Stefan (2001). ''The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism''. Oxford University Press, p. 4.〕 He served in the British Army after World War II, and was a businessman in South Asia. In the late 1950s he founded the Northern League. In the 1960s he established himself in the United States for a while working together with Willis Carto publishing white supremacist and anti-Semitic literature.〔Winston, A. S. (1996). The context of correctness: A comment on Rushton. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 5(2), 231-250.〕 Pearson's anthropological work is based in an evolutionary and racialist approach, of the kind that was common in anthropology in the early 20th century, based on the idea that the progress of humankind depends on making sure that "favorable" genes are segregated out from amongst "unfavorable" genetic formulae".〔"Evolution cannot occur unless 'favorable' genes are segregated out from amongst 'unfavorable" genetic formulae' () any population that adopts a perverted or dysgenic form of altruism – one which encourages a breeding community to breed disproportionately those of its members who are genetically handicapped rather than from those who are genetically favored, or which aids rival breeding populations to expand while restricting its own birthrate – is unlikely to survive into the definite future." – Pearson, Roger (1995b). ("The Concept of Heredity in Western Thought: Part Three, the Revival of Interest in Genetics," ) ''The Mankind Quarterly'', 36, pp. 96, 98."〕 He has consistently advocated that the human species consists of biologically distinct races which he defines as "rival breeding populations",〔 some of which are intrinsically better fit than others, and which competes against each other in a struggle for survival, but which all too frequently intermingle to the detriment of the superior races.〔Pearson, Roger (1966). ''Eugenics and Race''. London: Clair Press, p. 33.〕 He argues that the future of the human species depends on political and scientific steps to replace the "genetic formulae" and populations that he consider to be inferior with better ones, through "humane and benevolent eugenics policies".〔Kohn, M. (1995). The race gallery: The return of racial science. London: Jonathan Cape. pp. 52-54〕〔Tucker, W. H. (2002). Closer Look at the Pioneer Fund: Response to Rushton, A. Alb. L. Rev., 66, 1145.〕〔Tucker, W. H. (2003). The Leading Academic Racists of the Twentieth Century. Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 90-95.〕〔Shared Eugenic Visions: Raymond B. Cattell and Roger Pearson. Andrew S. Winston, University of Guelph ()〕 Pearson also published two popular textbooks in anthropology, but his anthropological views on the race question have been widely rejected as unsupported by contemporary anthropology. Consequently, Pearson faced difficulties in publishing his work. For this reason he founded several journals dedicated to publicising research that was otherwise excluded from mainstream journals: ''Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies'' as well as ''Journal of Indo-European Studies'', which would become the most influential journal of Indo-European linguistics. In 1978 he took over the editorship of the journal ''Mankind Quarterly'' founded by Robert Gayre and Henry Garrett, widely considered a right wing journal. Most of Pearson's publishing ventures have been managed through the Institute for the Study of Man, and the Pioneer Fund, with which Pearson is closely associated, having received $568,000 in the period form 1981-1991.〔("ROGER PEARSON" ISAR )〕〔Rosenthal, S. J. (1995). The Pioneer Fund Financier of Fascist Research. American Behavioral Scientist, 39(1), 44-61.〕〔Winston, A. S. (1998). Science in the service of the far right: Henry E. Garrett, the IAAEE, and the Liberty Lobby. Journal of Social Issues, 54(1), 179-210.〕 Pearson's strict stance against racial and political egalitarianism also manifested in a consistent opposition to Marxism and socialism. In the 1980s he was a political organiser for the American far-right; he established the Council for American Affairs, was the American representative in the World Anti-Communist League. Pearson was World Chairman of the WACL, and in that capacity collaborated closely with the US government during the cold war, and he collaborated with international many anti-communist groups in the organisation, including followers of Reverend Moon and former German Nazis.〔Kuhl, S. (1994). The Nazi connection: eugenics, American racism, and German national socialism. Oxford University Press.〕〔Jackson, J. P. (2006). Argumentum ad hominem in the science of race. Argumentation and Advocacy, 43(1), 14.〕 On his website Pearson rebuts some of the claims in the literature about him, rejecting specific accusations of race-hate, of anti-semitism, of arguing in favor of genocide, involuntary eugenics, forced repatriation of legal immigrants, subjugation or exploitation by one group of another, extreme or fascist politics including National Socialism or any totalitarian system, as well as denying accusations of impropriety. ==Background== Originally from Great Britain, Pearson joined the British Army Queen's Royal Regiment in England, April 1945, was commissioned in 1946 from British Indian Army Officers Training School Kakul, North-West Frontier Province (today the Pakistan Military Academy). Served with the British Indian Army in Meerut, (1946) before the Partition of India: with the British Indian Division in the Occupation of Japan, and with the British Army in Singapore (1948), before returning to University in England. Pearson later directed various British-controlled companies in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). From the University of London, he gained a master's degree in economics and sociology and a PhD in anthropology. Pearson grew up in England during World War II and his only sibling, a Battle of Britain fighter pilot (238 Squadron), four cousins (three pilots/aircrew) and two school friends, died in that war. Later, Pearson would frequently describe World War II as a senseless "fratricidal war", in which the mutual destruction of Germanic peoples contributed to the gradual downfall of the Nordic race.〔Tucker 2002:160〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roger Pearson (anthropologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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