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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread

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To: maceng2 who wrote (7654)10/14/2006 2:56:40 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (1) of 36921
 
Crichton was certainly spot on about a respected member of your so called Royal Society Francis Galton who got the ball rolling for Hitler's Nazi Germany.

royalsoc.ac.uk

"The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The best human beings were not breeding as rapidly as the inferior ones --- the foreigners, immigrants, Jews, degenerates, the unfit, and the "feeble minded." Francis Galton, a respected British scientist, first speculated..."

en.wikipedia.org

BTW - I'm applying for a grant from the Royal Society - the purpose of the grant will be to come with new ideas designed to scare the bejesus out of people. It seems like a very popular and modern thing to do.

e-gap.royalsoc.ac.uk
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