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Sure, but he's not being called out for being one of many intellectuals subscribing to the once fashionable proto/pseudoscience of eugenics, he's being called o
by notahacker 5y ago
Sure, but he's not being called out for being one of many intellectuals subscribing to the once fashionable proto/pseudoscience of eugenics, he's being called out for enthusing about the Nazis desire to improve their stock in a postwar defence of a scientist charged with being a Nazi, which many more nuanced takes on his contribution to science acknowledge paint his views on "defectives" in an unflattering light even if we assume he was somewhat naive with that comment and certainly not as problematic as, say, Spearman.
I have no idea what Fisher's wider politics were, but I have a pretty good idea of what the politics of the publication are.
- Veen 5y agoYes, but we don’t hear much from Cambridge about plans to remove the memorials of left-wing heroes who were eugenics supporters like Bertrand Russell. Just conservatives like Fisher.