Monday, October 13, 2003
Danish call for selective breeding to boost IQs
Intelligent women should be given time off from their careers to have children and less intelligent ones should be paid not to have them, says a leading Danish psychologist. In remarks which sparked a huge controversy, Professor Helmuth Nyborg, the dean of the Psychology Institute at Aarhus University, said that he wanted to turn around the declining figures for average intelligence in Denmark. "Intelligence is hereditary," he said. "The 15 to 20 per cent of those at the lower levels of society -- those who are not
able to manage even the simplest tasks and often not their children -- should be dissuaded from having children." Professor Nyborg insisted that his eugenics proposals were altogether different from Nazi ideologies. "Hitler didn't believe in eugenics," he said. "He just wanted to exterminate individual groups, and in fact exterminated the most intelligent among them." Full article from The Washington Post.
Intelligent women should be given time off from their careers to have children and less intelligent ones should be paid not to have them, says a leading Danish psychologist. In remarks which sparked a huge controversy, Professor Helmuth Nyborg, the dean of the Psychology Institute at Aarhus University, said that he wanted to turn around the declining figures for average intelligence in Denmark. "Intelligence is hereditary," he said. "The 15 to 20 per cent of those at the lower levels of society -- those who are not
able to manage even the simplest tasks and often not their children -- should be dissuaded from having children." Professor Nyborg insisted that his eugenics proposals were altogether different from Nazi ideologies. "Hitler didn't believe in eugenics," he said. "He just wanted to exterminate individual groups, and in fact exterminated the most intelligent among them." Full article from The Washington Post.
