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By the 1920s, three major efforts pushed the eugenic agenda in the United States and subsequently throughout Europe: (1) The Eugenics Research Association with Laughlin and Davenport as leaders and in affiliation with the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS). (2) The American Eugenics Society founded by Laughlin, Harry Crampton, Madison Grant, and Henry Fairfield Osborn with the purpose of promoting the eugenical movement at both the scientific and popular level. (3) The Eugenics Records Office, directed by Davenport and run by Laughlin with the express purpose of providing the scientific data to support the eugenics movement.
Yup, the AAAS, the same organization that NASA touts in their website regarding consensus on climate change. These very same organizations, along with others, promoted eugenics as fact, which led to forced sterilizations of blacks, and it also led the Nazis to adopt the same principles which led to the Holocaust.A concerted effort of this magnitude with the expressed support of the mainstream scientific establishment (e.g., AAAS as operator of the journal Science; the American Breeders' Association, which later became the American Genetics Association; and the Carnegie Institution) had an effect throughout both the scientific and governmental establishments worldwide.
What's the moral of this story? Scientists are not infallible, and proof is required to believe in what they say. The climate cult mantra of fanatical appeal to authority completely fails in this regard.