[flevit]

is citing the United States Holocaust Museum Memorial OK?


"Following Germany’s defeat in World War I and during the ensuing political and economic crises of the Weimar Republic, ideas known as racial hygiene or eugenics began to inform population policy, public health education, and government-funded research. By keeping the “unfit” alive to reproduce and multiply, eugenics proponents argued, modern medicine and costly welfare programs interfered with natural selection –the concept Charles Darwin applied to the “survival of the fittest” in the animal and plant world. In addition, members of the “fit,” educated classes were marrying later and using birth control methods to limit family size. The result, eugenics advocates believed, was an overall biological “degeneration” of the population. As a solution, they proposed “positive” government policies such as tax credits to foster large, “valuable” families, and “negative” measures, mainly the sterilization of genetic “inferiors.”

[js1138]

Your quote credits Darwin with the invention of a term and goes on to cite an abberant political policy that employes the term.

That is like crediting newton for the behavior raelians.

[balrog666]

You want to post another non-sequitur?

Go ahead.

[Dimensio]

By keeping the “unfit” alive to reproduce and multiply, eugenics proponents argued, modern medicine and costly welfare programs interfered with natural selection –the concept Charles Darwin applied to the “survival of the fittest” in the animal and plant world.

As human inventions, modern medicine and welfare programs are themselves natural. They do not "interfere" with natural selection, they simply alter the environment variables in which natural selection operates.