But here’s the twist. While he was busy hunting ghosts and injecting dogs with jellyfish toxins, Richet was also a hardcore eugenicist. He thought sterilization for the mentally disabled was a swell idea, presided over the French Eugenics Society, and genuinely believed black people were intellectually inferior. Yep, the same Nobel-winning scientist whose research saved lives also had the moral compass of a Victorian-era Bond villain.
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