Elaine Burke

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2,772 appearances 23 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2d ago

Elaine Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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For Tech’s Sake · AI’s doomer cult · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

You're too good for that. matched

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But uh I'm gonna say some very, very smart and well educated people can collectively share bad ideas. matched

That is not unknown to us either. matched

I'm sure you've come across in your lifetime the concept of eugenics. matched

Mm-hmm. matched

Which is a set of beliefs and practices where people think that you c you like everything basically is matched

Determined by your genetics and that you can breed out bad qualities. matched

And this turns it very quickly racist, it turns very quickly fascistic. matched

That belief system, though, at its time in the early 20th century, was shared by a lot of the leading thinkers and scholars and leading people in the world. matched

Like Winston Churchill was in favor of the confinement segregation and sterilization of certain people that. matched

That he described as feeble minded. matched

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He actually wrote in a letter the unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble minded and insane classes constitutes a national and race danger, which it is impossible to exaggerate. matched

So he kind of saw this as a threat to the race of English people, British people, I guess. matched

Theodore Roosevelt created a national heredity commission matched

In his US government, and it was charged with investigating the genetic heritage of the country and to encourage the increase of families of good blood and discourage the vicious elements in the crossbred American civilization. matched

Really, really gross ideas came out of this. matched

Um British biologist Francis Crick, who's very famous for his work on DNA and discovering Rosalind Franklin's notes, he is quoted as saying in an attempt matched

attempt to solve the problem of irresponsible people and especially those who are poorly endowed genetically, having large numbers of unnecessary children, sterilization is the only answer. matched

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