He became so detested because of his eugenics theories and his obsession with eugenics theories.
The Carnegie Institution and Rockefeller Foundation supported eugenics programmes in Germany into the 1930s, for example.
This would be modern eugenics, albeit with the individual, rather than the state, making the choices.
He also dismisses the notion that sex selection would lead to a more sinister form of eugenics.
They went back to the Pauper Pedigree Project of the Eugenics Society, which ran from 1910 to 1933.
The occasions on which both conditions are met are so rare that only one example from the last century comes to mind: eugenics.
Last Friday, the great blogger Matt Novak (who you should read often) uncovered evidence that Nikola Tesla, writing in 1935, had expressed his support for Eugenics.
Invoking the specter of eugenics, as CGS does, is unpersuasive.
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Craniology, phrenology and eugenics, once-respectable fields of endeavour that are now regarded with a shudder, may shriek from time to time, but few sane people pay attention to them.
We prefer to avoid awkward scientific findings on the biology of violence that question our concepts of free will and punishment and harken back to the bad old days of eugenics and brain lobectomies.
Eugenics, the pseudo-science of racial pecking orders, was so much the rage in academic circles from the late 19th century through the 1930s that even a towering liberal figure like Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes believed in it.
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