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Those things were not done by awful people though - they all thought they were serving the public good. We only judge it as awful now because of the results. Ne
by systemstops 1y ago
Those things were not done by awful people though - they all thought they were serving the public good. We only judge it as awful now because of the results. Nearly of these ideas (Lysenkoism I think was always fringe) were embraced by the educated elites of the time.
- feoren 1y agoLysenkoism! That's the one. Thank you for reminding me of the name (and for knowing what I was grasping at). I think some "bad people" used eugenics and phrenology to justify prior hate, but they were also effective tools at convincing otherwise "good people" to join them.
- daoboy 1y agoYou are absolutely right. Another interesting example: The man who invented the lobotomy won a Nobel Prize for it.