How Eugenics Shaped Statistics
racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted, and that the place of racism in imperial ideology has now been replaced by ‘culturism’. There is no such word, but it
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Science may be the pursuit of truth, but scientific language is adept at dressing up insidious ideologies as fundamental truths.
Elan Ullendorff • A brief history of creativity (and power)
a judgmental science that categorized and ranked some humans as biologically better than others.
Jonathan Mooney • Normal Sucks
As an official of the American Eugenics Society observed: “Americans take more care over the breeding of cattle and horses than of their own children.” Eugenics was used to justify enforced deportations, the introduction of restrictive covenants on where people could live, the suspension of civil liberties, and the involuntary sterilization of tens
... See moreBill Bryson • One Summer
The irony is, many of the most prominent eugenicists were extremely odd and strange, the very type of people targeted for elimination.