Seriously. An American Dr looked across the Atlantic to Germany just before WW2 and said "they're beating us at our own game". He was referring to removing imperfect people from the general population.

We talked about how eugenics got going in the US last week. This week, we talk about how it was pushed on us by "emerging science" and kept around ever since (in one form or another) by governments.

If you think that being a human is enough reason to be a part of society and no condition of your birth should change that, you disagree with eugenics. In the US, in the early 20th century, it was more popular than The Charleston and Ragtime music. Science has since left it behind as uninformed and draconian. When will the world's politicians catch up? It won't be soon with education being squashed to death. This one is making us truly Hysterical. Come on in and get pissed off with us.

Some of these episode descriptions are more challenging to scribble out than others. For example, this episode talks about why doctors thought it was a good idea to remove healthy ovaries. Yeah. Seriously. Spoiler alert - they did NOT have good reasons.

We draw the obvious line to eugenics in this episode and it's just sort of dark. But we also do spend a few seconds whispering about our puppy's birthday. So there is that. Try not to let it make you too Hysterical.

What's the best way to keep the good, chaste, young Doughboys of WW1 American Military Forces safe from harm? Why, that's easy - imprison women!!

This episode really hits close to home in 2025 America. We dive into how the US government decided, a little over 100 years ago, that the only way to protect soldiers from the scourge of venereal disease was to remand ladies, without cause, warning, due process, or habeas corpus, into custody for "treatment", and then put them on trial, after they had been "cured". Sound fair? Sound...familiar - vaguely?

When we don't learn history, we are doomed to repeat it, and this tidbid from our nation's past rarely even makes it into the university books. So, let's learn something so we don't do it again, and maybe we won't get sued in the process?