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The Science of Alcoholism and Degeneracy
i'm going to start the series with a rendua two parter on, i think, one of the worst dbockls in twentieth century american science. The story of a research psychologist named henry herbert goddard thought that he had cracked the code about why alcoholism and degeneracy existed. He got a lot of stuff wrong, like he got the genealogy wrong. And then it led to really disastrous impacts on the most vulnerable people. Gather round, kids, learn about eugenics. Yell, yes.