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Francis Galton pioneered scientific advances in many fields – but also founded the racist pseudoscience of eugenics – The Conversation US
Smart people can have really bad ideas – like selectively breeding human beings to improve the species. Put into practice, Galton’s concept proved discriminatory,…
A popular pseudoscience was leaving its mark on American culture a century ago in everything from massive reductions in quotas for immigration to the U.S., to thousands of fitter family contests at county fairs, to a growing acceptance of birth control by those who thought it could curtail the fertility of undesirables.
These are just a few examples of the influence of eugenics in the early 20th century. The idea of scientist Francis Galton, eugenics suggested that negative traits could be bred…
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