Before the Third Reich: America’s Darwinist Eugenics Crusade

Episode 1579 March 25, 2022 00:22:38
Before the Third Reich: America’s Darwinist Eugenics Crusade
Intelligent Design the Future
Before the Third Reich: America’s Darwinist Eugenics Crusade

Mar 25 2022 | 00:22:38

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Show Notes

On this classic ID the Future, John West, managing director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, explains the Darwinian basis for getting rid of the “unfit.” One way this manifested itself in the twentieth century was in the eugenics movement’s disturbing push for compulsory sterilization, right here in the United States. One of the most famous such instances was Carrie Buck (to the left in the picture accompanying this episode), sterilized as “feeble minded” despite going on to live a normal productive life. Her case went to the Supreme Court, where the court, in an opinion written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., ruled against Buck. She was sterilized five months later. Listen in to learn about prominent scientists Read More ›

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