Tag: scientific racism
West, Metaxas: Face It, Darwinian Theory Is Itself Racist
This malign record is no mere inexplicable aberration from an otherwise innocent scientific theory. The legacy is not a mistake.
Watch: For July 4th, an Intelligent Design-Themed Tour of Washington, DC
The whole city is a memorial to the ideas that inspired the American Founding. One of those is intelligent design.
Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More
Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal,” perhaps Morganucodon.
Maura: The Woman Whose Brain Was Stolen and Stored by the Smithsonian
Maura was brought from the Philippines to the U.S. in 1904 to take part in one of the public displays of indigenous people at the St. Louis World’s Fair.
Cambridge UP Book Airbrushes Darwin’s Contribution to Scientific Racism
Darwin’s racist and pro-eugenics thinking, combined with some implications of his theory that he expressed, laid the groundwork for Hitler’s diabolical outlook.