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Re:How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R. A. Fi... by recursive on Thursday January 16, 2025 @04:12PM (#42730967)
Do believe that's evidence that Fisher changed his mind on eugenics? Why do you bring that up?
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Re:How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R. A. Fi... by SoftTalker on Thursday January 16, 2025 @08:20PM (#42733019)
It's evidence that people can hold opinions that while perhaps mainstream at the time, in retrospect decide they are not well founded, and reconsider them.

I have no idea about Fisher specifically. I hadn't really heard of him until this was posted. Eugenics was popular among a lot of academics in the early 20th century however.

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Re:How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R. A. Fi... by recursive on Thursday January 16, 2025 @08:48PM (#42733194)
Could be. Maybe it happened!

The question here is about whether there is any shred of evidence that it did happen.

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Re:How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R. A. Fi... by throwaway112996 on Friday January 17, 2025 @03:38AM (#42735325)
Or maybe ur weakass comment degrades the forum, dang
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Re:How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R. A. Fi... by recursive on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:49AM (#42740091)
Again, if you can provide some kind of comprehensible reasoning why that's actually the case, your insightful comment would be more persuasive.
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