Elaine Burke
speaker
2,772 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3d ago
Elaine Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We have a discovery on DNA because of him, but my God did he have terrible ideas and Watson, his collaborator and another
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noted racist and had a reputation as a eugenics enthusiast.
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And the man we all love to quote from time to time, and I still do quote from time to time, George Bernard Shaw.
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Every quote is attributed to him, and this is a this is a doozy.
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A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.
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Now.
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That line of thinking for GB Shaw in particular
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comes through his association with this socialist group called the Fabian Society.
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It was particularly popular among progressive intellectuals that had deep, deep ties to the eugenics movement.
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And the eugenics that they brought into the Fabian Society, it seemed to give them this scientific basis for their vision of a rationally planned society.
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They didn't think the things they were saying were outright horrible.
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They thought this is rational because you just got to breed out the
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bad and go forward with the good.
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And it was all about this rationalized socialist state that they wanted to build that required the improvement of human stock to ensure social efficiency through the gradual elimination of undesirable elements.
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Sterilization, segregation, things like that.
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Easy blue.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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G B Shaw was a witty guy.
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Maybe this was his form of eat the rich, he was saying it as a tongue in cheek statement.
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