Talk:Harry H. Laughlin

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[edit] Epilepsy

Did this guy have a family? Because if he did then he was breaking his own law...

Did you actually read the article? it says, "

• Laughlin himself eventually discovered that he suffered from epilepsy, which was one of the subjects of study at the ERO and one of the criterion for compulsory sterilization under his own law. He and his wife, Pansy, married in 1902 but never had any children. After the ERO closed he returned to Iowa in 1939, and died January 26, 1943.

So he did follow his own principles, right or wrong. -Will Beback · † · 03:59, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Neutrality

This article seems to be not neutral. Peter Li 06:04, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

How so? The fact is that both the contempraory and the historical assessment of the subject's accomplishments is poor. He lost funding as a scientist because the Carnegie Foundation didn't think his work had scientific merit, his field soon after become associated with an infamous regime, and today it's commonly viewed as a pseudoscience. I think we bend over backwards to be fair and neutral, and to list his accomplishments. Is there a specific problem? ·:· Will Beback ·:· 07:23, 26 October 2007 (UTC)