Eugenics: a toxic history
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Eugenics
Eugenics is fundamentally not a scientific movement, but an ideological and political one. It's an attempt to bring science into a long standing political idea, which is population control. I think it, i argue in the book thas, it becomes, ultimately its pseudo scientific it's bad science. So we got a highly stratified, highlystr society that a philosopher king can have o of directional control overtha.
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