To be fair, I took a step back from saying Hitler, and I said Nazis, I was one step removed from invoking Godwin's law in its formal definition. More seriously

To be fair, I took a step back from saying Hitler, and I said Nazis, I was one step removed from invoking Godwin's law in its formal definition. More seriously, it wasn't just this group that believed in this stuff, it was the many many institutions in the western world, as emodendroket points out. Certain departments at Yale, most notably, supported eugenics. https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/american-eugenics-society-1926-1972 https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/american-eugenics-society-1926-... edited portion in case people think I meant all of Yale, bad generalization, my bad.