The Body Mass Index
Maintenance Phase
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The History of the BMI
Psinasy: Any scientific effort to boil a complex phenomenon such as health or intelligence down to one number is just like, pre doomed. Psinasy: What white people were functionally doing was looking for reasons to prove that we were genetically superior. And it's an extra fucking bad idea when we only ever put white people in charge. The inventor of the b m i was the head of the eugenic movement. He says he doesn't know much about the history of the bm i but has read some books on race and ic.
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