I quoted the Wikipedia:
> ...At its peak of popularity eugenics was supported by prominent people,
> including Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson,
> Prescott Bush, Theodore Roosevelt, Emile Zola, George Bernard Shaw,
> John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Winston Churchill, Linus
> Pauling and Sidney Webb...

in a separate footnote, I said:
> Eugenicists also advocated sterilizing the
> mentally retarded, the insane, etc....

Shane:
> Information, please.  Which of those individuals in that extraordinarily
> mixed bag were advocates of sterilization?

I should have said that _some_ eugenicists also advocated...
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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