The accusation that ‘X is a eugenicist’ is thrown around a lot on Twitter these days, as a way to try and cancel someone.
Read MoreA new biography has just been published of the Huxleys — Thomas, the great Victorian man of science, and his grandson Julian, the great 20th-century public scientist. The book, by Professor Alison Bashford, is quite sympathetic to Julian, who would be cancelled today for his lifelong support for eugenics, if anything besides a Wetherspoons pub had been named after him.
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