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Survey: Americans Favor Education on Scientific Racism; Call for Famed Zoo, Museum to Apologize
“Most Americans realize we need to learn from the past,” said John West, writer and director of the new documentary Human Zoos. “But we can’t learn from the past if we cover it up.”
Totalitarian Science: Past, Present, and Future?
When science is considered the only route to knowledge, scientific experts are given the right to rule, and science becomes totalitarian.
On Human and Animal Rights, the Twisted Course of Evolutionary “Philosophy”
Wesley Smith commented earlier on the struggle, via litigation by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP), to grant human-like “rights” to an elephant in the Bronx Zoo.
Understatement: According to Current Zoo Director, Caging Man “Shouldn’t Have Happened”
Hammering home the lesson about “our own evolutionary history” was exactly the purpose behind displaying and humiliating an African man with monkeys.
New Documentary Human Zoos Isn’t Ancient History
Evolution, the New York Times lectured, is “No more debatable than the multiplication table.” Sound familiar?