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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Science Eugenics and You

posted by Jonathan Golob on March 27 at 18:16 PM

In unrelated news, the new Dear Science podcast, on eugenics, is up.

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Charles Darwin was not a eugenicist. And the "Darwin Awards" are bad and wrong. Which is off topic but it's something I have this need to say so bear with me OK? Thanks.

Posted by elenchos | March 27, 2008 6:39 PM
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The inhumane arrogance expressed by proponents of eugeneics is the quality against which we as a human earth species should abhor the most.

Posted by Sasha | March 27, 2008 9:06 PM
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Do their tests screen for Unitarian Universalists?

Posted by NapoleonXIV | March 27, 2008 9:18 PM
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Pretty good

Posted by matching pants | March 27, 2008 9:23 PM
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You're perfectly correct, elenchos. It might be fair to say, though, that Darwin had as much to do with the early 20th century eugenics movement as Jesus had to do with Christianity.

Posted by Stolia | March 28, 2008 12:51 PM

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