This Day in History: Hans Asperger was born on this day in 1906. His studies on mental disorders led to Asperger Syndrome being named after him. He was also a eugenicist which he has now come under fire for. Twitter blew up this past weekend when popular evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins posted the following about Eugenics:
"It’s one thing to deplore eugenics on ideological, political, moral grounds. It’s quite another to conclude that it wouldn’t work in practice. Of course it would. It works for cows, horses, pigs, dogs & roses. Why on earth wouldn’t it work for humans? Facts ignore ideology."
For instance, Iceland encourages pregnant mothers to be pre-screened for down syndrome and then those expectant mothers are encouraged the eliminate the pregnancy if such is the case. Hence, we already use abortion as a form of eugenics.
See: 300 Books on Darwinism, Eugenics, Creation & Evolution on DVDrom
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2015/09/300-books-on-darwinism-eugenics.html
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