S6E21 - The Germ Makers (Eugenics)

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No idiot knows that he is an idiot. As a rule, those of small intellectual equipment are so sure of themselves that they are eager to make the race over in their own image.
-Clarence Darrow

 

Chris & Kayla enjoy dunking on one of history's worst ideas.

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*Search Categories*

Science / Pseudoscience; Anthropological; Destructive

 

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*Topic Spoiler*

Eugenics

 

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Further Reading

https://www.britannica.com/science/eugenics-genetics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_eugenics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_eugenics

https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/bio_facpubs/article/1001/&path_info=Eugenics__Annals_of_Eugenics_.pdf

The Deceptive Simplicity of Mendelian Genetics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton

https://galton.org/essays/1900-1911/galton-1904-am-journ-soc-eugenics-scope-aims.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pearson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Quetelet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Davenport

The American Eugenics Records Office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/cc/2e/cc2e84f2-126f-41a5-a24b-43e093c47b2c/210414-sanger-opposition-claims-p01.pdf

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/14/432080520/fact-check-was-planned-parenthood-started-to-control-the-black-population

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell

https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2020/10/14/why-buck-v-bell-still-matters/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Darrow

The Eugenics Cult, by Clarence Darrow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Huxley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_evolution_(transhumanism)

https://www.seenandunseen.com/transhumanism-eugenics-digital-age

https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/silicon-valley-transhumanism-eugenics-information.html

https://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2023/01/19/transhumanism-is-eugenics-for-educated-white-liberals/

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