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I didn't give it any thought before you mentioned it, but Freud is pretty dated as the face of psychology. Featuring different faces would be a fun idea.
Well, now that I've been a member for abut two weeks, I guess that gives me the right (or nerve?) to enquire why the poster child for this site is Freud. Is it possible to have a different photo each month, for example? Wolpe? Lazarus? Adler? Jung? Genet? and others? Just asking.
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The idea that anything could be "weeded out" from the human genome is ridiculous. To quote Edison "we know one-thousandth of one percent" and trying to fiddle around with something so complex while being so ignorant is REALLY playing God.
On top of that, the idea that humans "need putting right" is Nazism, pure and simple.
Early Social Darwinism had primitive notions of fitness and that biology was destiny. Interestingly, the word "eugenics" was coined in 1883 by Darwin cousin scientist Francis Galton. Galton wanted to promote the ideal of perfecting the human race by, as it is often put, weeding out "undesirables" while promoting "desirables." This may have seen simpler in Galton's day before we knew the mechanics of genetics, although there were efforts to study identical twins to see how much intelligence is inherited. If you take an Intro Psych course today you might learn about how the early English studies actually fabricated data. We know a lot more today about the essentially interactive nature of intelligence emerging in the environment.
But there seems to be a new version of Social Darwinism disguised "as deficit-reduction plan, it’s really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country. It’s nothing but thinly veiled Social Darwinism. It’s antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everyone who’s willing to work for it"
See "Social Darwinism Version 3.2" at
http://secularhumanist.blogspot.com/2012/04/social-darwinism-32.html
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