Aug 15, 2009

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The Last Sane Nation

Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in Chinaby Frank DiKötterNew York: Columbia University Press, 1998Francis Galton said that the first country to undertake a dedicated program of eugenics would conquer the world.  It shouldn’t be surprising that a country ruled by the most intelligent race in the world would realize that he was right. ...

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Jul 2, 2009

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The Coming Chinese Superstate: Richard Lynn’s Eugenics

Eugenics: A Reassessmentby Richard LynnWestport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers 2001One of the only valid points made by the critics of The Bell Curve was that if the science was accepted, then eugenics, which Hernstein and Murray refused to endorse, becomes the rational solution to society’s ills. Steven Pinker, the next major public thinker associated with the hereditarian...

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