AUS sci history. Prof Richard Berry lobbied for "sterilisation, segregation & the lethal chamber" for Aboriginal people & other #marginsci
Science is political. @unimelb removes eugenics professor name from campus. 4 more damaging names remain http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/melbourne-university-bows-to-pressure-removes-racist-professors-name-from-campus-20170321-gv2sjc.html … #marginsci
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By 1940s, Prof Berry "collected 400 Aboriginal corpses, some stolen from traditional graves, for experiments." Discovered in 2003
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Amazing that these issues need to be debated... but just shows how people cling to, & excuse, racist history.
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Prof Berry eugenicist still has portrait up in
@unimelb for "extraordinary contribution to anatomy." Nevermind#Indigenous staff & studentsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@unimelb racist buildings: Frank Tate- drove bill in 1926 to forcibly sterilise 15% of Victoria's pop incl Aboriginal ppl.#marginsciThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@unimelb "acknowledged a lack of diversity in the names of places on campus" but no current plan to change.#marginsciThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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For all of the "hard v soft science" brouhaha, social sci grasps this v obvious fact yet hard sci struggles
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in linguistics, this is an established, well accepted premise of human enterprise!
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