Category: Science
Darwinian Racism: How Evolutionary Theory Shaped Nazi Thinking
It was the spring 1999, a Denver suburb. The day, April 20 — Hitler’s birthday. An 18-year-old white nationalist donned a shirt emblazoned “Natural Selection.”
Whoopi Goldberg: Ignorant about Darwinian Racism
Hitler was clear that he deplored the mistake of basing anti-Semitism on “religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.”
Royal Society: Don’t Censor Misinformation; It Makes Things Worse
While others demand crackdowns on “fake news,” the Society reminds us that the history of science is one of error correction.
New Book Explores Darwinian Racism, Then and Now
To hear some tell it, Adolf Hitler was a Christian creationist who rejected Darwinian evolution.
John Bloom on the Match that Lit the Scientific Revolution
Babylonians and Greeks contributed some discoveries and insights that would eventually play into the rise of science.