Eugenics no more a "pseudo" Science than bacteria are living "fossils"

We don't permit history profs - on their way to granting our kid an expensive university degree - to teach only the successes of the Nazis and never their failures.

So why in the name of truth and beauty do we permit science profs to do just that about science's many failures ?

Why do we let them get away with the nonsense that eugenics was only a pseudo science and never a real science - when we know it was taught in thousands of universities and colleges around the world for over half a century ?

In 1940, far more people around the world had earned their way into professional status in part by passing such eugenics courses than had by passing courses in sub pseudo-atomic physics.

Orwell would have learned much more about doublespeak by ignoring Hitler and Stalin and devoting himself to the tabletalk of any number of Nobel Prize winning scientists.

Consider the powerful if deadly poetic phrase 'living fossil' : how on earth could something be both living and lost since dead ?

The Romas were considered thus - along with any number of other 'primitive' tribes also destined for the SS bath facilities in the event of total victory.

The term 'living fossils' was actually just a clever way to evade Dr Dawson's probing question : if the bacteria actually are that stupid and weak and simple and primitively primeval - why in the name of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer are they still here ?

Or could it be that about the only thing a lab scientist won't reduce down to its basic basics in his beakers and burners is his own profession's mis-practises ??

All climate-deniers are equal but some are more equal than others...

Bloody in-fighting among the tiny tots in the climate deniers camp this week recalls similar infighting among the farm animals after the Glorious Revolution in Orwell's Animal Farm.

You remember, when Napoleon's killer-dogs tore the throats out of the pigs and hens, in a very public execution.

Sou from Bundangawoolarangeera has a nice post on  all
throat-tearing here.

 She credits WTD (Watching the Deniers) as being an excellent news source and SVE can only agree with that assessment : required daily reading --- from the 99%, for the 99%.

Great fun, but a bit pathetic too , because these poor denier nobodies have long been used by libertarian think tanks / newspaper chains / political parties as very public, easily ridiculed , stalking horses for the libertarians' own sinister ends.

the real paymasters of the tiny tots deniers are the sinister libertarians

But when the public ridicule gets too loud - as it is now over the Galileo Movement's managing director Malcolm Roberts saying climate change is all a Jewish bankster conspiracy, the libertarian powers-to-be remain silent in the deep shadows, unwilling to come to the defence of their embattled dupes.

Just as Napoleon's real paymasters were the human bosses , who were content to remain in the shadows when the killings were being done....