Comment by SoftTalker

3 months ago

It's evidence that people can hold opinions that while perhaps mainstream at the time, in retrospect decide they are not well founded, and reconsider them.

I have no idea about Fisher specifically. I hadn't really heard of him until this was posted. Eugenics was popular among a lot of academics in the early 20th century however.

Could be. Maybe it happened!

The question here is about whether there is any shred of evidence that it did happen.