Eugenics: a toxic history
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Eugenics and the Institutions
Eugenics is one of the defining conversationsof our time now, isn't it? And scientists are falling into that as well. So we've got golton who was never actualy at l, but bequeathed moneyand and buildings and staff,. A professorship too, u c l. Then his primary disciple, karl pierson, probably, i think, legitimately the founder of modern statistics. The next golton professor was ronald fisher, truly a leviathan scientific mind. They were all passionate, enthusiastic eugenesists.
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