The Darwin family produced, developed, and lead the eugenics movement for nearly a century. This is not an opinion, it is a statement of fact.
Divorcing the Darwin family from the evils of eugenics and focusing on science would be like crediting Hitler for the Autobahn and ignoring the Holocaust.
Don’t forget the Huxleys.
I don’t know. They all kept cats as pets? They all enjoyed ice cream?
That should be reason enough to kill all cats and outlaw ice cream. /sarcasm
The Darwin family produced, developed, and lead (I think you meant “led” here, unless you are really blaming Charles Darwin for “lead poisoning¨ too) the eugenics movement for nearly a century. This is not an opinion, it is a statement of fact.
Divorcing the Darwin family from the evils of eugenics and focusing on science would be like crediting Hitler for the Autobahn and ignoring the Holocaust.
Well Hitler did build some very good roads that are still in use today by many Germans who still drive on them in their VW’s.
And two out of four of Ronald Regan’s kids are stark raving lunatic leftists. Just saying.
I would divorce the theory of evolution from the Darwin family. There was no ownership of the theory any more than by Wallace or Huxley. All made observations and made a hypothesis that became a theory that has and will change in many aspects. All of the men made mistakes and had their own set of values. Interesting history but not central to today’s science.
Eugenics was and is a horrible set of ideas and practices. Like AGW today, men twisted science to justify their politics. Their experimentation was ill informed and twisted by racial and ethnic hatreds. Much of what Sanger did fit with her racial and class bigotry. Like others she used and twisted the science of the day to fit. Good grief, so called scientists counted bumps on people’s heads and measured skulls to support preconceived prejudices.
Today’s science is in danger of similar misuse. Only good science will out bad science. Already the politicized “scientists” are moving to climate change over global warming which is a move in the right direction. I’d like to see a well controlled study of just what happens to the co2 we are putting out but as long as worshipers of Gaia prevail, that isn’t likely.
Today’s moves toward euthanasia and population control by abortion have more to do with utilitarianism than science. Stalin and Mao produced their own perverted religions to justify their killing and we are moving closer to that religion — Marxism.