Comment by SoftTalker
Comment by SoftTalker a day ago
It's evidence that people can hold opinions that while perhaps mainstream at the time, in retrospect decide they are not well founded, and reconsider them.
I have no idea about Fisher specifically. I hadn't really heard of him until this was posted. Eugenics was popular among a lot of academics in the early 20th century however.
Could be. Maybe it happened!
The question here is about whether there is any shred of evidence that it did happen.