Robert Proctor points us to this lecture, “Why did Big Tobacco love (and fund) eugenicists like R.A. Fisher?” It’s pretty good! He talks about material from his 2011 book, Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition, which we discussed here way back when: “If our product is harmful . . . we’ll stop making it.” Below are some fun/horrifying slides from Proctor’s talk. Here’s the always-charming R. A. Fisher disparaging experts by throwing around the “terro...