Posted: Oct 09, 2017 11:10 am
This deserves emphasis.
Indeed, much to the point. We can despair of his overt racism, yet still do celebrate, and use, his contributions. Ideas will stand, or fail, on their own merits, not on how naughty or nice their developers had been.Calilasseia wrote:Not that I would dispense with some of his (Francis Galton's) other ideas, such as linear regression in statistics, or his contribution to forensic science with respect to fingerprints, or his prototype forays into meteorology.