Richard Weikart (luglio 1958) è uno storico statunitense.
È stato professore di storia presso la California State University, Stanislaus.[1] Il lavoro di Weikart si concentra sull'impatto del darwinismo sul pensiero sociale, sull'etica e sulla moralità. Il suo lavoro e le sue conclusioni sono controverse.[2]
- ^ (EN) Dr. Richard Weikart, su Stanilus State, California State University. URL consultato il 20 agosto 2017.
- ^ (EN) Graeme Gooday, John M. Lynch e Kenneth G. Wilson, Does Science Education Need the History of Science?, in Isis, vol. 99, n. 2, 1º giugno 2008, pp. 322–330, DOI:10.1086/588690. URL consultato il 20 agosto 2017.«Unlike the claims regarding Haeckel’s embryology, Weikart’s claims regarding a lineage from Darwin to Hitler via Haeckel have been examined by historians of science and indeed have generally been found lacking. Numerous reviews have accused Weikart of selectively viewing his rich primary material, ignoring political, social, psychological, and economic factors that may have played key roles in the post-Darwinian development of Nazi eugenics and racism. Since there is no clear and unique line from Darwinian naturalism to Nazi atrocities, useful causal relationships are difficult to infer; thus, as Robert J. Richards observes, 'it can only be a tendentious and dogmatically driven assessment that would condemn Darwin for the crimes of the Nazis'»