{"id":427530,"date":"2018-01-15T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=38507bf1c566ddb575381ca43f374c7e"},"modified":"2018-01-15T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T14:30:01","slug":"progressive-eugenics-is-hardly-history-the-science-and-politics-have-just-evolved-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=427530","title":{"rendered":"Progressive eugenics is hardly history \u2013\u00a0the science and politics have just evolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugenics has been science&#8217;s toxic brand since the end of World War II. The point was driven home yet again recently when Toby Young, appointee to the UK&#8217;s newly established Office of Students, was denounced in the House of Commons for having written favourably of &#8220;progressive eugenics&#8221;. Young resigned from the post the following day amid complaints about a series of other tweets and comments made in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugenics has been science&#8217;s toxic brand since the end of World War II. The point was driven home yet again recently when Toby Young, appointee to the UK&#8217;s newly established Office of Students, was denounced in the House of Commons for having written fa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427531,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427530\/revisions\/427531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}