Galton, Ehrlich, Buck - An exploding generational bomb
May 19, 2023•33 min
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Episode description
Adam Mastroianni has a great review of Memories Of My Life, the autobiography of Francis Galton. Mastroianni centers his piece around the question: how could a brilliant scientist like Galton be so devoted to an evil idea like eugenics?
This sparked the usual eugenics discussion. In case you haven’t heard it before:
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/galton-ehrlich-buck
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