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I’m aware he wrote a blog on the genetics of learning disorders and wanting to introduce ways of detecting that earlier under the idea that they could be picked up earlier.He wrote a paper about savings to pensions etc that could be achieved if people died earlier. He also employed an advocate of eugenics who had to resign. Cummings paper was a long time ago so he might have softened his views?
“In a 2013 blogpost, he cited research that concluded that discovering “genes responsible for general cognitive ability and specific abilities and disabilities” would “enable truly personalised education including early intervention for specific learning difficulties”.
Not seen anything on the pensions thing, not sure that’s eugenics either.