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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 432: Eugenics -- a legacy of progressive experts and the intelligensia
Description: The boys drink and review Pigweed's Seal Team 6 -- a homebrewed Black IPA -- then discuss eugenics.
Humans have been breeding animals and plants for a very long time. Most of the foods we eat are the result of thousands of years of careful breeding by farmers, and "man's best friend" was bred from wild dogs.
Why shouldn't we do the same with humans?
Sir Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin who was very influenced by The Origin of Species, proposed just such...