
How Eugenics Shaped Statistics

BBC Four documentary Eugenics: Science's Greatest Scandal
Large language models propagate race-based medicine - Nature
I mean “means of manufacturing and distributing poison gas in urban spaces” might be an area of research, but I’m going guess that anyone who spends their time deeply... See more
TracingWoodgrains • Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges Into the Public Record
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racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted, and that the place of racism in imperial ideology has now been replaced by ‘culturism’.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
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This sort of discrimination and even dehumanization was already widespread, but, in Europe and its colonies, a few key differences lead to a unique analysis. Firstly, the concept of race was not consistently connected to heritability in Europe until the sixteenth century. Before then, it was generally assumed that traits like skin color were
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