Reject the cult of 'intelligence.' You're worth more than that

What "Inherit the Wind" and all the other dramatizations about the "Scopes Monkey Trial" leave out is that the textbook used by John T. Scopes, Civic Biology, contained some science gone seriously wrong. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was honored as a "progressive" voice on many topics such as the freedom of speech, and so his defense of eugenics gave support to that idea among intellectuals (who naturally saw themselves as being "superior"). Under his direction, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1927 ruled 8-1 in Buck v. Bell that forced sterilization on eugenic principles did not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Chris Graney had a similar experience when he was a young professor teaching "technical physics" at a satellite campus of his community college, located in a small town in Kentucky.