The Bandwagon of Perdition

PJ Media ^ | 6 Feb 2021 | Richard Fernandez

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Michael Crichton pointed out that two 20th century scientific theories, eugenics and Lysenkoism, were broadly accepted by the expert community not because they predicted anything accurately but as a result of becoming too politically prestigious to dispute. From michaelcrichton.com:

Imagine that there is a new scientific theory that warns of an impending crisis, and points to a way out.

This theory quickly draws support from leading scientists, politicians and celebrities around the world. Research is funded by distinguished philanthropies, and carried out at prestigious universities. The crisis is reported frequently in the media. The science is taught in college and high school classrooms.

I don’t mean global warming. I’m talking about another theory, which rose to prominence a century ago.

Its supporters included Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Winston Churchill. It was approved by Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis, who ruled in its favor. The famous names who supported it included Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; activist Margaret Sanger; botanist Luther Burbank; Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University; the novelist H. G. Wells; the playwright George Bernard Shaw; and hundreds of others. Nobel Prize winners gave support. Research was backed by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations. The Cold Springs Harbor Institute was built to carry out this research, but important work was also done at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Johns Hopkins. Legislation to address the crisis was passed in states from New York to California.

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Butcher...

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The history of eugenics was so embarrassing that by collective consent it was swept under the media rug. Crichton continues: “After World War II, nobody was a eugenicist, and nobody had ever been a eugenicist. Biographers of the celebrated and the powerful did not dwell on the attractions of this philosophy to their subjects, and sometimes did not mention it at all. Eugenics ceased to be a subject for college classrooms, although some argue that its ideas continue to have currency in disguised form.”

The Establishment protecting itself as it always does.

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The New World was not as Brave as the Eugenicists had hoped.

[Lisbon1940]

On the road again.The life they love is making music with their friends.

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On the road again.

I like being on the road making music with my friends...but not when there are two feet of "Global Warming" on the road! LOL!

[RicocheT]

The present big lie, apart from the coronavirus requiring us to surrender our freedoms of assembly, travel and gather our families together to pray are the bogus lies of Climate change, Global warming and Green energy from non-carbon sources.

Biden’s climate czar, John Kerry, admitted Jan.27, 2021 that the US reducing its emissions to zero wouldn’t make much of a difference in the global climate change fight. “Not when almost 90% of all of the planet’s emissions, CO2 emissions, come from outside of U.S. borders,” said Kerry.

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Bkmk

[AZJeep]

The eugenics lives in the abortion industry.

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Bump to the top.

Important reading at the link.