Tag: heredity
In the Footsteps of Social Darwinist Cesare Lombroso
Lombroso’s ideas were quack science. But they were taken seriously by criminologists and public officials around the world until they were debunked.
The Dawkinsian Mythology
Philosopher Mary Midgely pointed out the fatuousness of the “meme” hypothesis in painfully direct terms.
Wikipedia on Hunter’s Civic Biology
Of course, there’s a page on the subject, and you guessed it, they deceptively minimize the theme of eugenics and racism in the book.