Richard Lindzen

If you're not going with the flow, you can get rejected.

And that's a lot of things structurally need to be, I think, rethought a little bit.

The physicists have done pretty well with archive, where they have a publication vehicle using the internet.

that bypasses reviews and lets people read it and see what's up on it.

But all sorts of things like that need to happen.

I mean, what Will is saying is true, I'm sure.

Science of climate has been set back at least two generations by this.

They also gave an honorary degree to the leading eugenicist in America, a man called Laughlin.

Oh, my goodness.

No, I mean –

What Will is saying, I mean it had a practical consequence by the way.

It actually led to the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which held that America was going to restrict immigrants to percentages based on the population in the 19th century.

So there would be a quota for England and Scotland, which was fine.

a little bit less for Germany, almost nothing for Eastern Europe, almost nothing for Italy, and so on.

And that was used in the run-up to World War II to allow Roosevelt to prevent Jews from escaping Europe.

Wow.

And it was only changed in 1960.

So essentially, you were keeping out Jews, Eastern Europeans, Chinese until then because of eugenics in 1924.

Well, the trouble is.

You know, when something like eugenics comes around, the population is told that this is science.