"The Day Eugenics Died"

''The Day Eugenics Died

posted by Ronald Ladouceur on 2009.07.03'' [source]

''I was not taught much of the history eugenics in school, but I somehow absorbed that it was an “old” idea, one that had been thoroughly discredited once the horrors of the Nazis were exposed.

So it came as a bit of a surprise to find that many American high school and college biology textbooks continued to discuss eugenics as if it were a non-controversial idea well into the rock-and-roll era. In fact, the most popular textbook published in 1960, Moon, Otto and Towle’s Modern Biology, referred to eugenics “a young science,” (648) and suggested its methods would surely begin to see application once a few more properly studied human generations had passed.''

A very interesting discussion on eugenetics and how it was finally abandoned.


It is my belief that we must honestly and openly confront past ideas, to learn from the past. A kind of meme vaccination.