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Some questions and discussion points for you and your students...
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What scientific developments undermined the claims of eugenics? How did each, step-by-step, finding-by-finding, alter the way scientists viewed eugenics?
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Why do you think scientists who made these breakthroughs were reluctant to publicize their findings? What does their reluctance suggest about the way they viewed the role of a scientist in society?
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How courageous was Boas's stand? Why do you think other scientists and scholars were reluctant to join him in challenging Nazi racial policies, even though in the United States they could do so in safety? If they had protested, do you think their words would have had any effect in Nazi Germany? On American public opinion?
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