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  • Lancelot Thomas Hogben
    / Scientist, science writer, and foe of eugenics

    
active for social causes, in Dangerous Thoughts (1939) he wrote of his resistance to the racist (pre-apartheid) policies in South Africa, where he admitted “coloured” students to his classes and home. Hogben’s discomfort with the racism in South Africa led him to accept a position in 1930 at the London


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active for social causes, in Dangerous Thoughts (1939) he wrote of his resistance to the racist (pre-apartheid) policies in South Africa, where he admitted “coloured” students to his classes and home. Hogben’s discomfort with the racism in South Africa led him to accept a position in 1930 at the London


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