Re: Comment on Social Mobility as Slow Today as It Was in Medieval Europe: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:21:52 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > wanda says eugenics ok?

Interesting.  I guess The Final Solution is just hunky-dory for her.

 >  > Wanda Tinasky wrote, in response to Noelle:
 >  > The principal problem with Eugenics was its political application, not the 
 >  > scientific process behind it (although, of course, it was certainly immature)
 >  > . Indeed, Prof. Clark's data bolsters this notion.
 >  > 
 >  > Certainly science isn't immune to error. Its error rate is simply lower and 
 >  > more self-correcting does than that of any other institution humans have 
 >  > ever been able to construct.
 >  > 
 >  > Link to comment: 
 >  > http://redirect.disqus.com/url?impression=11ee6838-d7e7-11e4-981f-002590f37afe&experiment=digests&behavior=click&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fa%2Fforum%2FR201503311000%23comment-1938694497%3ApUOBJ0yi_uXyGySSCzA0nPIlM24&type=notification.post.registered&variant=active&event=email
 >  > 
 >  > Noelle wrote:
 >  > 
 >  > Eugenics was popular in academia too for a little too long. I would believe 
 >  > a professor's findings more than a politician's rhetoric, but academics aren'
 >  > t immune from bad ideas  as well.