1)Without eugenics, no Holocaust? Seriously? Keep in mind that for the purposes of eugenics, all they needed to do was sterilize people, not kill them.
2)So, abortions being more prevalent among the poor is supposed to work against them?
3)There was no theory for Mengele's experiment to come from. A theory means an tested explanation that makes predictions, but I didn't see that for Mengele's work.
1) Essentially. "All they need to do" was sterilize but euthanasia was one means suggested for "applied eugenics" in America. * Eugenic experiments on mental patients supplied the means to carry out the holocaust. **
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The eugenicists hoped to neutralize the viability of 10 percent of the population at a sweep, until none were left except themselves.
Eighteen solutions were explored in a Carnegie-supported 1911 "Preliminary Report of the Committee of the Eugenic Section of the American Breeder's Association to Study and to Report on the Best Practical Means for Cutting Off the Defective Germ-Plasm in the Human Population." Point eight was euthanasia.
The most commonly suggested method of eugenicide in America was a "lethal chamber" or public locally operated gas chambers. In 1918, Popenoe, the Army venereal disease specialist during World War I, co-wrote the widely used textbook, Applied Eugenics, which argued, "From an historical point of view, the first method which presents itself is execution… Its value in keeping up the standard of the race should not be underestimated." Applied Eugenics also devoted a chapter to "Lethal Selection," which operated "through the destruction of the individual by some adverse feature of the environment, such as excessive cold, or bacteria, or by bodily deficiency."
Eugenic breeders believed American society was not ready to implement an organized lethal solution. But many mental institutions and doctors practiced improvised medical lethality and passive euthanasia on their own. One institution in Lincoln, Illinois fed its incoming patients milk from tubercular cows believing a eugenically strong individual would be immune. Thirty to forty percent annual death rates resulted at Lincoln. Some doctors practiced passive eugenicide one newborn infant at a time. Others doctors at mental institutions engaged in lethal neglect.
** In 1941 German psychiatrists train the Nazi SS on mass murder techniques they learned from experimenting on mental patients.
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2) I count abortions towards the deaths that can be attributed to eugenics. I thought race was the key quality that worked against it, but how could you think it was fine to kill off children because their parents were poor? Some of the most brilliant people this world has to offer were born into poverty.
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3) Your definition of a “scientific” theory is inaccurate or incomplete because prophecies predict the future and are “tested“ when they do or do not come to fruition.
Eugenics theory: The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The best human beings were not breeding as rapidly as the inferior ones --- the foreigners, immigrants, Jews, degenerates, the unfit, and the "feeble minded."
Let me make myself clear. I’m not saying eugenics is actually science, I’m saying the scientific community and/or “science minded” individuals embraced it as science so I called it consensus “science.”
Here are some of the definitions that bares this out:
Francis Galton…Darwin’s cousin (pioneer of the new scientific study of eugenics…social Darwinism.): “The study of all the agencies under social control which may improve or impair the inborn qualities of future generation of man physically or mentally.”
Davenport: “A branch of applied biology which looks toward improvement of racial qualities.”
Victor C. Vaugh: “ The generation and reproduction of good and referring to the human race.”
Dr. Morris Siefel: “The science of race.”
