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[โ€“] yesman@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Eugenics is still wildly popular, they just don't call it that. A short list of modern things founded in Eugenics.

  • Stanford University
  • IQ testing
  • Idiocracy (2006)
[โ€“] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Don't forget psychology. Turns out a lot of its like 90% of it is founded on a mix of religious dogma and eugenics. Remember that infamous Canadia Nazi Jordan Peterson who nearly killed himself with a paleo diet and then went on a ketamine bender in Russia? Psychologist.

[โ€“] mzesumzira@leminal.space 1 points 8 months ago

That's like saying medical research is a scam and citing Andrew Wakefield as a prominent exemple