> Take eugenics, has suppressing that idea made the belief in eugenics worse? Ideas like eugenics clearly have something to them that resonates with people, at

> Take eugenics, has suppressing that idea made the belief in eugenics worse? Ideas like eugenics clearly have something to them that resonates with people, at least until they think hard enough about the ethics or logistics involved. There's a reason eugenics cropped up in the first place. So yes, insofar as you suppress a dangerously seductive idea, you do make it worse, because it takes actually explaining what the flaws were with the idea to shake people out of it.