Desiree Burch
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 Jul
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You're Dead to Me · Francis Galton: Victorian scientist and pioneer of eugenics · 31 Jul 2026
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It's Desiree Burch.
How did we not get sideburns for this?
It's a visual medium now.
Surely we should have all been doing this.
So I actually, in a show that I did, one of my tour shows, Desiree's Coming Early, we talked about Francis Galton because he sort of pioneered the eugenics that went into this sort of IQ test.
Because I talked a lot about that and having grown up in sort of like gifted and talented education in California.
and how that was sort of predicated on an IQ test that both like limited the opportunities for a lot of black people in California at certain periods, but also allowed me to get into the kind of education that would get me into higher and higher places.
And also apparently was the only reason we figured out that lead was making people like dumber in America because there was lead in all the gas and everything.
And it was only the IQ test that was like, oh, lead go up, IQ go down.
And like, then they got rid of lead and everybody was like, oh, finally I can like remember anything or function.
Yeah.
So that was like the one good thing apparently that IQ tested.
The only good thing.
But yeah, it did like, you know, whatever Europe did with eugenics, America was like, all right, you know, and they just like blew it up to 10,000 and it was perfectly horrible.
That's a pretty good summary.
Except for the lead bit.
Except for the lead.
Because he was the cousin who wasn't as cool as Darwin, and Darwin came up, so he's like, well, I could do that, and I could do, like, ten times more, and made it way worse.
When they do this over some dust and they start judging everything.
Oh, not even those gloves?
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