Science Abuse Quotes
Eugenics was an intellectual movement of the first half of the 20th century that was mostly junk science and was debunked. While the analogy is clever and makes her political point about climate change science, there are actually several major differences. Eugenics was never a set of scientific laws that had near unanimous support of all the scientists in that and related fields while climate science is. Eugenics was not an experimental science where its principles were subject to refutation with data. So called Eugenic scientists did no experiments, analyzed almost no data, and were more philosophical and political than scientific. Most of the Eugenics advocates were not scientists at all and had little or no training in science.
The population control and views of contraception of Castro, a left wing radical, was ironically that of the most conservative elements of America and some of the organized religions such as Roman Catholics. Data has shown time and time again, that if the average number of children of the average poor family were the same as the number of children in the average non-poor family, most of the poverty in that country of area would be eliminated. This is true within the United States and without.