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[โ€“] yesman@lemmy.world 46 points 8 months ago (4 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 -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 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 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Except JP is actually a reputable psychologist. He's only disgraced on the internet because of his overly fascist radicalizing side gig. In the real world he's seen as little more than a highly educated professional. Which is exactly the point i'm trying to make, his nazi pseudoscience isn't a dealbreaker for the job and that's pretty revealing to the field as a whole.

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