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A parasitologist, Dr. Stiles, proved that the laziness and physical deterioration of American southerners was due to hookworm infections, and a journalist, Norwood, made his research widely known through a piece on the "Germ of Laziness". Thus, it was disproven that southerners were hereditary defective.

Grant explicitly disavowed Christian views on the value of a human being.

Grant claimed that Jesus was blonde and blue-eyed, and it was probably from him that Hitler took the idea that the Thirty Years War decimated the racially pure.

Madison Grant, who supposedly influenced Hitler, disliked Catholics, calling their religion "obsolete".

Davenport elevated eugenics to a religion. He even wrote a creed for it.

Davenport believed in the "unit character" of hereditary traits, namely that specific genes would cause specific traits such as musical or mathematic genius. According to the author, this has long been disproven, even in his time. Everything I learned about hereditary traits so far confirms that Davenport was wrong. We still haven't singled out THE epilepsy-gene, because it doesn't exist.