A.W.F. Edwards
March 2021
Fisher was the Newton of the life sciences, the man who invented the math needed to solve big problems. Richard Dawkins indignantly tweets:
Ignominious cowardice by Gonville & Caius College. RA Fisher was triply distinguished: one of the three founders of population genetics, arguably the most distinguished Darwinian since Darwin, and beyond argument the founder of modern statistics.
In what order will other great minds of England be canceled? Here’s my countdown from soonest to last:
4. John Maynard Keynes: one of the reasons Fisher is being canceled is because he was the founding chairman of the undergraduate wing of the Cambridge Eugenics Society. Keynes was the founding treasurer of the Cambridge Eugenics Society, and remained an advocate of eugenics up through the year of his death in 1946. On the other hand, perhaps Keynes is too central to major left-of-center parties to be brought down. For example, Paul Krugman constantly lauds Keynes in the