racism

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Multiethnic school kids using computer in classroom at elementary school. Portrait of arab boy looking at camera in a computer room. Smiling primary student in a row using desktop pc in class room.

Can an Algorithm Be Racist?

It’s tempting to assume that a villain lurks behind such a scene when the exact opposite is the problem: A system dominated by machines is all calculations, not thoughts, intentions, or choices. If the input is wrong, so is the output. Read More ›
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Hitler in model car
From a model shop in London.
Photo, "Who buys Hitler toys? by Liton Ali at Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Whether Hitler was a Darwinian

In his fifty-page essay, "Was Hitler a Darwinian?" published by the University of Chicago Press, aims primarily at refuting my works. He also snipes at David Berlinski, Stephen Jay Gould, Larry Arnhart, even Peter Bowler, along with unspecified "members of the Intelligent Design crowd." Read More ›
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The Second World War

Review of From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany

To most Germans, Hitler never appeared to be an evildoer, and thus subsequent attempts to portray him as a fanatical madman betray a misunderstanding of the epoch in which he ruled, Weikart argues. Instead, Hitler was very much a man of his age. The moral justifications for the evil he unleashed were developed long before he rose to power. Weikart Read More ›

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Tumbleweed On Road In Desert
Licensed from Adobe Stock

Facts to the Wind

Sunday, February 17 at 9:00 PBS viewers will be treated to an historical account of the famous Scopes Trial called Monkey Trial. According to the advance billing, “Monkey Trial explores the dramatic moment when a new fault line opened in society as scientific discoveries began to challenge the literal truth of the Bible. Often humorous and at times frightening, the Read More ›