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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Taro who wrote (1010052)4/6/2017 12:32:49 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 1572594
 
Eugenics was stupid and global warming is not. And to use the former to dispute the latter is stupid and not worth debate. 150 years ago science was not as disciplined, or knowledgeable as it is today.

Eugenics was formulated a long time ago when our thinking was still quite primitive e.g. we had just abolished slavery, women could not vote because they were thought to be too stupid, and we still had ignorant things like segregation.

Modern science, knows that we know very little about the human mind and its myriad capabilities and manifestations.

Global warming is quite simple. To modern science figuring out anthropogenic global warming is no more difficult than people in the 15th century figuring out that the earth is round. Actually the ancient Greeks figured it out to within 25 miles. But that information was lost for a 1,000 years.

Using eugenics as an argument against global warming is just more silliness that the right wing engages in all the time trying to disprove basic science for God only knows what reason?

I don't understand why you and I node don't just try to understand modern basic science and quit all this esoteric nonsense simply for the purposes of arguing.

Modern science knows that the primary cause of poverty is lack of education. Modern science also knows that the average human is capable of learning much much more than people think. Modern science knows that the primary difference between people who are ignorant and people who are not, is nothing more than simple education and has little to do with genetics. And the small degree to which it has to do with genetics is not understood at all.
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