Sentences with word «eugenicists»

Don't let the Eugenicists get you down.
Biologists might no longer be eugenicists by default, but they would rather not dwell on the fact that they once were.
That's not to say «there's no such thing as climate», but that even scientists are vulnerable to ideology, and go looking to substantiate their prejudices, just as Murray — and countless eugenicists before him — did.
That the folly of the eugenicists would be joined to that of the global warming hysteria is little surprise; a convenient crisis is always helpful when you are looking for a reason to «systematically attempt to prune» the human race, and it does not really matter very much whether the looming disaster of the 1970s — a manmade Ice Age — is suddenly exchanged for another convenient prop.
The scientists whose name apparently must be unmentioned analogized environmentalists to eugenicists.
And by the same token, it could be argued just as easily that demands for acting on the best scientific evidence and scientific opinion makes bedfellows of greens and the eugenicists of the early - mid 20th century.
And again, just as I reject using analogies to Eugenicists in the climate debate, I reject using analogies to holocaust deniers in the climate debate.
I also categorically dismiss the viewpoint of those who regularly compare environmentalists and / or «believers» in AGW as analogous to Eugenicists — something that Lindzen has done, and indeed, something that we have seen stated very explicitly on these here Climate etc. threads.
Further — how do you feel about analogizing environmentalists and others who think that GW is 90 % likely to be more than 50» % A to Eugenicists — as we have seen Richard Linzen do, and as we have seen «skeptics» do many, many times on these thread?
If you feel compelled to defend analogizing people that think that GW is 90 % likely to be more than 50 % A to Eugenicists, please go ahead.
That would be matched by my objection to analogizing people who think that GW is 90 % likely to be more than 50 % A to Eugenicists.
Eugenicists and Warmists steeped in the Malthusian wet dream of preserving resources through selective depopulation.
Eugenicists and Warmists both to be eventually relegated to the ash heap of history we can only hope.
To put it very bluntly indeed, the eugenicists of mid 20th Century Europe and America had a moral responsibility, it would seem, to warn of the dangers of the contamination of superior races by inferior blood, through inter-racial marriages.
The globalists, the eugenicists, are in this for the long haul.
Horror novel, a sequel to Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism (2011), about American eugenicists, an inhuman species named Juke, and the synthesis of those horrors that threatens humanity.
Eugenicists believed that the human race must begin to take control not just of human reproduction, but of ethnic intermingling.
These were people, eugenicists argued, who threatened to dilute the White Anglo - Saxon genetic stock of America.
Ethnocentrics and eugenicists, who viewed intelligence and other social behaviors as being determined by biology and race, latched onto IQ tests.
Standardized tests first entered the public schools in the 1920s, pushed by eugenicists whose pseudoscience promoted the «natural superiority» of wealthy, white, U.S. - born males.
«The worldview that Palo Alto's early 20th - century IQ testers and eugenicists developed explains part of the basis for the American economy ECOLINE with IQ Module Simple, flexible and reliable.
Perhaps most chilling, though, were the ways in which American eugenicists influenced their German counterparts.
Certainly, American eugenicists gave the Nazis training and funding.
The Cold Spring eugenicists believed that the unfit had to be prevented from passing on their defective genes for blindness, criminality, insanity, and — of course — stupidity.
The Rockefeller Foundation and other philanthropic institutions in the United States funded the research of American - trained German eugenicists even after the Nazi Party had made its genocidal intentions clear.
In it Black traces the roots of eugenics back to the 19th century, when British scientist Francis Galton and fellow eugenicists latched onto the newly emerging science of genetics as a key to improving the human race through better breeding.
War on the Weak is filled with tale after tale of arrogance, ignorance, and cruelty — accounts that Black wisely allows the eugenicists to relate in their own words.
Some of the staunchest supporters of the act were eugenicists, who believed that the fecundity of poor people was reducing the overall health and intelligence of the nation.
The Carnegie and all the other major foundations that began modern philanthropy not only thought heredity important, they were, writes William Schambra in The New Atlantis, eugenicists when eugenicism was cool.
From around the 1910s through the end of World War II, eugenicists promoted not only involuntary sterilization of the so - called «unfit,» but also infanticide of disabled babies (which was not carried out beyond Germany).
That a lot of secular progressives are fierce supporters of the abortion license because they're eugenicists at heart shouldn't come as a surprise; one current member of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had a Gruberian moment some years ago when she admitted in an interview that legal activists promoting the abortion license prior to 1973 did so in part because they thought it would cut down the «growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.»
For to surrender, supinely, before the aggressors in the culture wars — including the eugenicists — is a betrayal of the Gospel and a betrayal of the Church's evangelical mission.
Often, these proposals and policies have little to do with the crimes of Hitler and his minions — and a great deal to do with the eugenicist movement that preceded them.
The doctors who committed these crimes had embraced the eugenicist ideology that views some lives as of lower «quality» and, hence, lower value than others.
Like the sugary treats fastened to the witch's cottage, the saccharine assurances from the ER staff that this doctor was keen to help OI patients had obscured his intentions: They had brought us to a eugenicist who wished to push any of my future OI - affected offspring into the oven.
Let us imagine Jessie fell under the spell of the coercive eugenicist my wife resisted and agreed to abort her three OI - affected offspring — Lloyd, Mabel, and Cyril — while retaining her firstborn Laura as her sole «genetically pure» child.
Grantly Dick - Read, the father of the natural childbirth philosophy, was a eugenicist who was quite honest about his goal of convincing women of the «better classes» to have more children and give up those pesky demands for political and economic equality.
But Fisher himself was a eugenicist who believed that upper - class people, because they are upper class, have a genetic predisposition to superior intelligence and «qualities of the moral character.»
9 In 1981 Shockley and eugenicist Robert Klark Graham cofounded the Repository for Germinal Choice in Southern California, a sperm bank dedicated to selling the seed of Nobel Prize winners and other men with a high I.Q.
Despite Pheramor's vaguely eugenicist vibe and creepily literal take on the concept of «chemistry,» it has still managed to attract some hype.
• Did you know the Singapore school system, the one widely lauded by some prominent education experts, was crafted on an expressly eugenicist platform?
Would assistant principal and dean of girls Julia Evangeline Brooks be described as a «cultural eugenicist» for mandating particular behavior for students, as KIPP leaders — who appear to ask for similar behavior — have been in the past?
Those of us who see value in standardized tests should not forget their eugenicist roots, nor should we forget that some people...
From New York Times» columnist David Brooks and Jason DePerle, to paleo - eugenicist Charles Murray, to Robert Putnam, and even otherwise thoughtful school reformers such as Thomas B. Fordham Institute's Michael Petrilli, there has been plenty of questioning about whether the economic mobility that has allowed America to bend the economic and social arc of history toward progress can continue.
Rather than measuring learning, they measure students» socio - economic and racial backgrounds, much like the eugenicist IQ tests of the past.
He later became a eugenicist, virologist and bioterrorist, and was a true force of reckoning until his death in Resident Evil 5.
It was sent by Herschel to Francis Galton, a London eugenicist and pioneer of identification technologies.
Is it, with its idealized couple, fascist or eugenicist?
Glen Back, on the other hand and on CNN Headline News, has compared global warming proponents to eugenicist Nazis.
Professor Happer would make a great pick for a senior scientific post in the Trump administration, perhaps replacing the dismal and somewhat terrifying eugenicist John Holdren as Director of the Office of Science and Technology.
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