H.H. Goddard's groundbreaking studies of the feeble-minded helped justify eugenics policies across the world... which is a tragedy because they were junk science and lies. Here's the whole sordid story.
Key sources for this episode include David Smith's Minds Made Feeble: The Myth and Legacy of the Kallikaks; Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man; Thomas C. Leonard's Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the PRogressive Era; Stephen Murdoch's IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea; and, of course, the works of Henry Herbert Goddard.
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