Welcome to the show. Everybody, I hope you had a better weekend than I did. I guess I spoke

too soon on Friday because I said I've been sick the day before but then I was better.

Well shortly after shooting the show, I was in the hospital hooked up to an IV

mask, you know, the whole nine yards. I had the flu. Turns out, turns out I had the flu all time.

So I finally got to see what the buzz is about. The flu buzz. What all the flu hype is about.

And I can report that it pretty much sucks as much as everybody says it does. I thought maybe I could,

though the one good thing about having the flu I thought is I could come up with a contrarian

take like I like to do and maybe I could come and report that actually the flu is good,

but I can't. It's not good. I just I have to agree with the general consensus that it's not

very good at all. And we have four kids at home. So I had to quarantine myself in our room upstairs

for three days with the help of my my wife who you know, I was I was like basically like the

hunchback living in the bell tower and my wife would come up push a plate of gruel under the

door a couple times a day then run away. If I tried to come downstairs she'd turn the hose on me.

Get away. Unclean. And that's pretty much what it was like. And but now I'm I'm relatively okay

and ready to get down to business. So all right. A number of interesting things came up over

the last few days. Maybe they just seemed interesting to me because I was in a feverish

haze. I don't know. But let's start with famed biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins on Sunday.

They sent out some tweets about eugenics. Now what he said, what he actually said is not so much

the interesting part as the reaction to what he said. So let's start with that. This is what he

wrote. He said, it's one thing to deplore eugenics on ideological political or moral grounds. It's

quite another to conclude that it wouldn't work in practice. Of course it would. It works for cows,

horses, pigs, dogs, and roses. Why on earth wouldn't it work for humans? Facts ignore ideology.

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