As Tucker (2002, 143) has summarized: “The fact that Shockley had done no research on genetic differences was of no consequence; he was a Nobel laureate, saying what the Draper clique wanted desperately to hear and eager to proselytize, and they quickly set out to exploit the opportunity presented by Shockley’s prestige through a public relations campaign in which the physicist was not only an enthusiastic participant but often the chief strategist.”
