
Psychologists Have Identified The Creatures We Find Most Scary And Revolting
26 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
Need help on how to dumb down this information request for @mfe_news. Previous responses suggest that they have never heard of Nordhous
25 Jun 2019 Leave a comment

Many on the left are genuinely surprised to learn that the spiritually certain are more socially conservative
23 Jun 2019 Leave a comment

Note for @AOC on the importance of being morally right than factually correct
22 Jun 2019 Leave a comment

An American Dilemma and Eugenics
19 Jun 2019 Leave a comment

The word “eugenic” is an unquestionably negative adjective –tagging something eugenic is to disparage it, except in the rare case of someone who attempts to resuscitate some aspect of the vilified American eugenics movement. However, if asked, it is doubtful that those who employ the term to vilify something they object to can give an accurate definition of the term. Those who turn to the history of science to define the term are likely to be frustrated. The American eugenics movement was in fact so broad and historical scholarship on it has been so profuse that by the end of the twentieth century the word “eugenics” was applied to so many different activities that it was of little use in describing much of anything. And, since every industrialized country in the world had some kind of program under the rubric “eugenics” the problem becomes more acute if we move beyond…
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