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Originally posted by Colin@Aug 27 2003, 05:38 AM
Why should it be considered the worst kind of social and scientific faux pas to write papers on such subjects and ask such questions? Seems to me that science reacted so negatively to eugenics - and it pretty much had to considering it's culmination in 1930s Germany - that now we can't even ask tough (and otherwise interesting) questions.
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Very interesting question. There are some who would respond by rote with Certified Answer #3 - political correctness (said, of course, with the requisite sneer).
My personal opinion is that the majority of allegedly scientific/intellectual papers posing such questions have been found to be based on underlying assumptionsquite acceptable to the folks who ruined the science of eugenics. Like "creation science" it seems to be a "science" of the past, only a little more modern that treating headaches with leeches.