MANY OF THE BEST stories begin with the virtuoso tweeter Professor Richard Dawkins. In 2020 he declared to his several million followers that “of course” eugenics would work. “It works for cows, horses, pigs, dogs, and roses. Why on earth wouldn’t it work for humans?”
He was quick to follow up with a clarification (“for those determined to miss the point”): “I deplore the idea of a eugenic policy. I simply said deploring it doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work”. But the toothpaste would not go back into
