It’s coming on February 9, just in time for Darwin Day on February 12. Documenting the rise of totalitarian science, it’s the expanded paperback edition of Darwin Day In America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, by Center for Science & Culture associate director Dr. John G. West, now with a hard-hitting all new chapter, “Scientism in the Age of Obama — and Beyond.”
From the Preface:
At the dawn of the last century, leading scientists and politicians giddily predicted that modern science — especially Darwinian biology — would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment.
Instead, politics and culture were dehumanized as a new generation of “scientific” experts began treating human beings as little more than animals or machines:
In criminal justice, these experts denied the existence of free will and proposed replacing punishment with invasive “cures” such as the lobotomy.
In welfare, they proposed eliminating the poor by sterilizing those deemed biologically unfit.
In business, they urged the selection of workers based on racist theories of human evolution and the development of advertising methods to more effectively manipulate consumer behavior.In sex education, they advocated creating a new sexual morality based on “normal mammalian behavior,” without regard to longstanding ethical or religious imperatives.
This book explores the far-reaching consequences for society when scientists
and politicians deny the fundamental differences between human beings and the rest of the natural world. It also exposes the disastrous results that ensue when experts claiming to speak for science turn out to be wrong. Finally, the book presents a plea for democratic accountability in an age of experts.
See the trailer. Download the sample chapter. Preorder the book.