Comments on: Book review – Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity/2018/10/17/book-review-genetics-in-the-madhouse-the-unknown-history-of-human-heredity/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Mon, 22 May 2023 17:46:45 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Rage Inside The Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/10/17/book-review-genetics-in-the-madhouse-the-unknown-history-of-human-heredity/comment-page-1/#comment-11958Wed, 12 Aug 2020 18:51:31 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2354#comment-11958[…] that other statistical tools had equally less salubrious origins, with links to both eugenics and mental asylums (the name Karl Pearson might ring a bell from your statistics […]

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]]>By: Book review – Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/10/17/book-review-genetics-in-the-madhouse-the-unknown-history-of-human-heredity/comment-page-1/#comment-8604Sun, 22 Mar 2020 15:40:03 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2354#comment-8604[…] One of the most notorious tools that came out of this form of social Darwinism, which is still with us today, is the intelligence quotient (IQ) test. It has been used to prop up racism and sexism for decades (see also my review of Superior: The Return of Race Science). Less well-known is that other statistical tools had equally less salubrious origins, with links to both eugenics and mental asylums (the name Karl Pearson might ring a bell from your statistics classes, see also my review of Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity). […]

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]]>By: Book review – Rage Inside The Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/10/17/book-review-genetics-in-the-madhouse-the-unknown-history-of-human-heredity/comment-page-1/#comment-7105Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:38:16 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2354#comment-7105[…] One of the most notorious tools that came out of this form of social Darwinism, which is still with us today, is the intelligence quotient (IQ) test. It has been used to prop up racism and sexism for decades (see also my review of Superior: The Return of Race Science). Less well-known is that other statistical tools had equally less salubrious origins, with links to both eugenics and mental asylums (the name Karl Pearson might ring a bell from your statistics classes, see also my review of Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity). […]

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]]>By: Book review – Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/10/17/book-review-genetics-in-the-madhouse-the-unknown-history-of-human-heredity/comment-page-1/#comment-5345Fri, 16 Aug 2019 08:08:04 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2354#comment-5345[…] you enjoyed other chunky books on the history of genetics such as She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity, or The Gene: An Intimate History, this book is a […]

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]]>By: Book review – Superior: The Return of Race Science | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/10/17/book-review-genetics-in-the-madhouse-the-unknown-history-of-human-heredity/comment-page-1/#comment-4764Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:01:40 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2354#comment-4764[…] reviews of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity and Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity). These ideas fed into the atrocities committed during World War II, and Saini chillingly reminds […]

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]]>By: Book review – She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/10/17/book-review-genetics-in-the-madhouse-the-unknown-history-of-human-heredity/comment-page-1/#comment-1498Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:22:04 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2354#comment-1498[…] contribution mental institutes have made to our understanding of heredity (see Porter’s book Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity), the subsequent rise of the eugenics movement that hoped to improve the human race through forced […]

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