| 单词 | eugenics |
| 例句 | Instead, equality had to be the precondition for eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But by the late twenties, as he had witnessed the menacing rise of eugenics in the United States, he had begun to reconsider his enthusiasm. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The horrors of Nazi eugenics inspired a cautionary tale, prompting a global reexamination of the ambitions that had spurred the effort. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The Galtonians had been convinced that eugenics would ultimately generate radical equality—transforming the weak into the powerful. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Each of Dobzhansky’s insights was a powerful plea against the misuse of genetics and human eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Without equality, eugenics would inevitably falter on the false premise that social ills, such as vagrancy, pauperism, deviance, alcoholism, and feeblemindedness were genetic ills—while, in fact, they merely reflected inequality. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If eugenics was becoming a cottage industry in Germany, it was already a full-fledged national operation in America. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As the front of the American eugenics movement advanced from imprisonment to sterilization to outright murder, European eugenicists watched the escalation with a mix of eagerness and envy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Like many scientists and social scientists of his era, Muller had been captivated by eugenics since the 1920s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z H. G. Wells, the novelist, was no stranger to eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Undoubtedly, the historical legacy of slavery was also an important factor driving American eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z By then the language of eugenics and genetics had long become subsidiary to the more malevolent language of racial hatred. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That idea escalates to its macabre zenith in Nazi Germany in the 1940s, where human eugenics is used to justify grotesque experiments, culminating in confinement, sterilization, euthanasia, and mass murder. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The Army also endorsed eugenics, making it part of the official curriculum for Army officers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z This, perhaps, was the final contribution of Nazism to genetics: it placed the ultimate stamp of shame on eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z By 1930, when Louie was entering his teens, California was enraptured with eugenics, and would ultimately sterilize some twenty thousand people. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The outlines of the law were explicitly borrowed from the American eugenics program—if amplified for effect. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This was the pseudoscience of eugenics, whose many followers believed they could improve the human species through careful breeding. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In the last years of his life, Galton wrestled with the idea of negative eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Muller also realized that his experiment had broad implications for human eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As Muller thought about the future of eugenics and the possibility of altering human genomes, he wondered whether Galton and his collaborators had made a fundamental conceptual error. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In eugenics lessons, children were taught that Aryans should marry only healthy Aryans. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In the 193os, America was infatuated with the pseudoscience of eugenics and its promise of strengthening the human race by culling the “unfit” from the genetic pool. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z But in the end, his desire to build eugenics into a “national religion” outweighed his qualms about negative eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Their pictures were featured prominently on posters, newspapers, and magazines—generating passive support for a national eugenics movement. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z For Galton, the word eugenics was an opportune fit—“at least a neater word...than viriculture, which I once ventured to use.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In the 1940s, Dobzhansky would attack these questions directly: he would eventually become one of the most strident scientific critics of Nazi eugenics, Soviet collectivization, and European racism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But unlike Galton, Muller began to realize that positive eugenics was achievable only in a society that had already achieved radical equality. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As an undergraduate, he had formed a Biological Society at Columbia University to explore and support “positive eugenics.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Indeed, an entire cadre of “scientists”—geneticists, medical researchers, psychologists, anthropologists, and linguists—gleefully regurgitated academic studies to reinforce the scientific logic of the eugenics program. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A more popular tool of eugenics was forced sterilization, employed on a raft of lost souls who, through misbehavior or misfortune, fell into the hands of state governments. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Bell was being argued in the Supreme Court in 1927, the rhetoric of genetics and eugenics penetrated social, political, and personal discourses in the United States. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Back at Cornell, William worked with another advisor who promoted eugenics, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The purpose of eugenics was to accelerate the selection of the well-fitted over the ill-fitted, and the healthy over the sick. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Galton had already coined a name for this effort—eugenics, the betterment of the human race via artificial selection of genetic traits and directed breeding of human carriers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1904, Galton presented his argument for eugenics at a public lecture at the London School of Economics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Davenport promoted eugenics not only in America, but across the world. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The eerie phrase conveyed an escalation of the logic of eugenics: it was not enough to sterilize genetic defectives to cleanse the future state; it was necessary to exterminate them to cleanse the current state. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Nazi teachers changed the curriculum, adding two new subjects: racial science and eugenics. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The real power of eugenics lay in the manipulation of genes—not in the selection of features. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Englishman Francis Galton—a cousin of Charles Darwin—started this whole spurious exercise in 1883 when he came up with the concept of eugenics. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z Grant later became a key proponent of the eugenics movement. Best poetry books for March 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Paying poor women who are addicted to drugs to undergo sterilization obviously leads to a thicket of troubling moral issues, even if it falls short of outright eugenics. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z The idea of dead scientists engaging in an experiment in eugenics is incredible enough. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z Isaacs said Lucius speaks "the language of separation, the language of racism, the language of eugenics." Malfoy actors talk good, evil as Potter saga ends 2011-07-07T11:55:08Z Setting is fate, we are to understand — and Herbert implicates the entire society in the killings, its patrimony of violence, eugenics and amnesia. Treating a Historic Massacre as an Active Crime Scene 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z While it would effectively solve the problem, it also raises fears among New Zealanders of eugenics and ecological collapse. Unnatural Selection: the eye-opening Netflix docuseries on gene editing 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Right, I think what happened for me was I realized, "Oh, wow, this guy was involved in eugenics." "Why Fish Don't Exist" explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Born into a Jewish burgher family, Boas was horrified to see how the Nazis took inspiration from Americans’ pathbreaking work in eugenics and state-sanctioned bigotry. How a Group of Heretical Thinkers Chipped Away at the Idea of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Other chapters of “The Age of Decadence” address the era’s widespread fixation on eugenics, its crisis of religious faith, the poetry of Thomas Hardy, A.E. Review | What can ‘The Age of Decadence’ teach us about today? A great deal. 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Almost all of them were advocates of hereditarianism and eugenics. ‘The Man Who Hated Women’ Is Mostly About the Women He Hated 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z As the flow of scripts continued an even larger claim emerged: the dead had taken on the task of saving the world of the living by means of a post-mortem experiment in eugenics. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z There's more than a whiff of eugenics about it. My own genome project 2013-06-08T18:45:00Z Sanger’s own legacy is complicated, too, fraught with accusations of racism and a perceived championing of eugenics. The amazing life of Margaret Sanger, “Our Lady of Birth Control”: “I was intrigued that such a great do-gooder was also quite a bad girl in private” 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z But as the late 19th century ended and the 20th century began, the categorizing of human beings was anything but fading – with the burgeoning of the eugenics movement, scientific racism moved from theory to practice. Whiteness and “Making a Murderer”: Manitowoc, the “one-branch family tree” and the sinister race science of “degenerate whites” 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z They were preoccupied with “degeneration” and drawn to eugenics. Mental Illness Is All in Your Brain — or Is It? 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z To me, it was an attempt to control nature, like eugenics; it made me think of Hitler. Rachel Feinstein Unveils the Darker Side of Fantasyland 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky: It is in the states’ “compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics,” Thomas argued. Why some Black churches aren’t elated about the possible end of Roe 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z I took up Christopher Vogler’s The Writer’s Journey while revising a script about a rabbi involved in the pre-WWII eugenics movement. I was a screenwriting guru groupie 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z Whitehead’s alternative American history carries echoes of the real thing: Forced sterilizations and eugenics experiments aren’t just the stuff of dystopian historical fiction. Why Colson Whitehead made the Underground Railroad real: “It’s fanciful and childish, but it also had many possibilities” 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z If Davenport hadn’t become embroiled in the lunacy of eugenics, he would be remembered for his legitimate academic accomplishments. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z There were traces of eugenics in the museum’s programming from the beginning, said Vogel, including a “race hygiene” section at the 1911 exhibition. Pandemics Get Forgotten. But Not at This Museum. 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z It’s an eerie mix of domestic charm and eugenics, in unclear proportions. How Colonial Artisans Dazzled the New World 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z What’s indisputable about the eugenics movement in this country is that it was driven by racial and class prejudice. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z I got to learn about the eugenics movement, and how it really got going here. "Why Fish Don't Exist" explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z In all honesty, the eugenics leader was a pitiable man. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z And many opponents say that the payment is a bribe, and some have even called Project Prevention a revival of the eugenics movement. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z Hrdlicka’s personality was as acerbic as his ethics were rocky; he essentially encouraged looting of human remains and aligned himself with the eugenics movement. ‘Bone Rooms’: Where scientific racists stored their ‘evidence’ 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Between the two world wars, reformers in the eugenics movement justified the involuntary sterilization of tens of thousands of working-class women as a measure to reduce the birthrate of the “socially inadequate.” Criminal justice reform in the U.S. has a long history of repressive outcomes 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Davenport’s Cold Spring Harbor facility functioned as the hub of international eugenics activities, and its influential journal Eugenical News enthusiastically endorsed the German movement at every opportunity. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z They lobbied for school segregation, eugenics and the creation of a women’s KKK chapter as active warriors for the continued institutionalization of White supremacy. Review | Ruby Hamad’s essay about White women’s tears went viral. ‘White Tears/Brown Scars’ delves deeper into performative victimhood. 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Their presence – joyful, vulgar, defiant – is a stinging reminder of what happens when eugenics is applied to the splendid variety of real life. Huxley's Lab 2010-04-07T21:30:00Z The citizens of this utopia are actually being drugged, constantly observed and the glorious culture only works, it’s discovered, due to a complex system of cruel eugenics and euthanasia. The Giver – first look review: Utopia isn't all it's cracked up to be, again 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z This was not a Jeeves book; Wodehouse’s satirical creation here was a wackily fearsome woman who promoted eugenics and vilified germs, and set about making her niece a vessel of her theories. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z American Horror Story: Asylum has, in turns, been about the Catholic Church, sexual repression, Nazis, eugenics, the Devil, misogyny, interracial relationships, serial killing and aliens. American Horror Story: Asylum Shows Its Big, Bloody Heart 2013-01-24T14:54:40Z When the Nazis seized power three years later the museum was co-opted by the Nazi propaganda machine, keen to assert the importance of heredity, eugenics and "racial hygiene". Dishing the dirt 2011-03-18T15:59:52Z And yet Malthus's ideas persisted among the elites for hundreds of years, spreading a fear of population time bombs and seeding ideas for eugenics programmes up to the last half of the 20th century. Peoplequake: Mass Migration, Ageing Nations and the Coming Population Crash by Fred Pearce | Book review 2010-03-27T00:10:00Z Adolf Hitler himself had followed the eugenics movement in this country for years. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z The net effect of Spencer’s Social Darwinism: the eugenics movement of the early 20th century. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z "Race is a new word, relatively. It's like 100 years old. It's something that kinda just fed the Californian eugenics movement." Vin Diesel on Guardians of the Galaxy: 'I didn't realise how much I love trees' 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton, the founder of eugenics, compares the “willy-nilly disposition of the female” to a butterfly. A Century Before Hillary 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z It was an outrage destined to be repeated many times over—mostly against poor, uneducated women—as the dark age of eugenics spread across the land in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z The ugly spectacle of negative eugenics was finally recognized for what it truly is: racial and class prejudice, pure and simple. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z They invoke the dread name of Galton and cry "consumerist eugenics", but that is merely an attempt at showing guilt by association; it's not an argument. Genes, Cells and Brains by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose - review 2012-12-19T10:10:01Z But the spectre Splice evokes for me – more than eugenics, playing God or cruelty to human-animal hybrids – is that of cosmetic surgery. Anne Billson 2010-07-15T20:59:00Z Many of these works approach the story of American eugenics as though it will be a surprise to the reader, which is probably a safe bet. The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Of course this leads eventually to various ideas of eugenics that people like Jordan was embracing. "Why Fish Don't Exist" explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z The museum also examined its own potential complicity, in particular its exhibitions on eugenics in the early 20th century. Roosevelt Statue to Be Removed From Museum of Natural History 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z In these pieces, plucked from the last 20 years, Holt takes on infinity and the infinitesimal, the illusion of time, the birth of eugenics, the so-called new atheism, smartphones and distraction. Essays That Make Sense of the Infinite and the Infinitesimal 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z You’ll get to know Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the prestigious American Museum of Natural History, who, because of his views on white supremacy, immigration and eugenics, is “often dismissed today as a bygone bigot.” When the Dinosaurs Reigned 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z At the end of the day, this is about eugenics, and what is the goal of eugenics but to decimate a population? Empowering "Dark Winds" Navajo women: "As Native people, our continuing existence is a radical act" 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z I recall mentioning a surgical procedure in 2017 to a friend who told me her family shunned major surgery of any kind because doctors stole the wombs of two Black relatives during the eugenics era. "They got Daddy": Reckoning with my grandfather's kidnapping, racial terror and our family's trauma 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Subsequently looking into the death of the brutish teacher reveals another blood-related concern: a harrowing plot involving, among other monstrous topics, eugenics. New in crime fiction: Cleverly, Estleman, Koryta, Penny 2012-08-08T19:47:07Z As expected, there’s discussion of “designer babies,” eugenics and “improving” our species. ‘Human Nature’ Review: We Can Now Alter Our DNA. But Should We? 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Holmes’s enthusiastic embrace of eugenics must be the product of his time, not an expression of the distinctive contempt that he considered as proof of his own tough-mindedness. The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z In my book I quote Cosmopolitan magazine saying what a great thing eugenics was and how it will make the race better. SCOTUS’ shameful eugenics history: “We don’t provide the kind of justice that we claim to in our society” 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z But a fierce backlash against unrestricted immigration arose in the late 19th century abetted by a specious eugenics movement that downgraded entire nationalities and racial groups as potential pollutants of the American gene pool. Ken Burns Explores America’s Inaction During the Holocaust 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z In fact, a well-known, century-old slogan of the eugenics movement might be mistaken for a Project Prevention flier, allowing for differences in style. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z The new science of eugenics promulgated the notion that "feeble-mindedness" was the prerogative of the lower social orders. Family Secrets: Living With Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen – review 2013-01-26T15:00:01Z “Men like Josef Mengele and Madison Grant were the best-known purveyors of racist science and policy at the height of the eugenics movement’s popularity,” she writes. ‘Sisters in Hate’ Offers a Window Into Women in the White Nationalist Movement 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z On the cover of the Book Review, David Oshinsky called it “a superb history of eugenics in America.” Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Among the books that Wyeth admired was Madison Grant’s influential treatise on eugenics, “The Passing of the Great Race,” published three years before Wyeth made his “The Last of the Mohicans” illustrations. Perspective | N.C. Wyeth painted the world full of beauty, resilience and adventure. And full of white people. 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Sandilands’ investigation reveals a harrowing story of, among other monstrous topics, abuse and eugenics. Adam Woog’s best mysteries of 2012 2012-12-07T00:24:05Z She also dispels myths surrounding genetic differences among races, like the eugenics used to justify race-based slavery. Podcasts Worth a Listen: ‘Fiasco,’ ‘Unwell,’ ‘In Those Genes’ 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z In the background of the story – and sometimes its foreground – is the American fascination with eugenics, the belief in improving the human race through selective breeding. SCOTUS’ shameful eugenics history: “We don’t provide the kind of justice that we claim to in our society” 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z The number of things Peele manages to reference is stunning: the taboo of mixed relationships, eugenics, the slave trade, black men dying first in horror films, suburban racism, police brutality. Get Out: the film that dares to reveal the horror of liberal racism in America 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Past, present and future share visual and narrative space as the histories of poisons, eugenics, home-loan guidelines and forensic science coalesce like iron filings around a magnet. Review: In ‘Rat Film,’ a City of Rodents and Racial Oppression 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z She tackles psychoanalysis and hysteria; witches and midwifery; the origins of welfare and the creation of the Social Security Act; forced sterilization and the rise of the American eugenics movement. Is Fear the Last Taboo of American Motherhood? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z But he also draws a deeper, more troubling analogy by connecting the selective breeding of livestock to the early 20th‑century interest in eugenics. Worthless Men by Andrew Cowan – review 2013-02-22T21:45:01Z The few glimpses and rumours of the wider world we are offered suggest it is riven with medical horrors – eugenics, experiments, organ trafficking. Could Never Let Me Go give human clones a good name? 2011-02-05T00:06:01Z New Yorker ran a lengthy four-part series on eugenics in 1984, and a number of books have been published on the topic. The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z He eventually became the first president of Stanford University and a vocal leader of the eugenics movement, even writing publications about genetic cleansing. "Why Fish Don't Exist" explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z From this beginning, Ms. Isenberg moves confidently forward, through, for example, the class issues that undergirded the Civil War and the popular eugenics movement, favored by Theodore Roosevelt, that marked many as targets for sterilization. Review: ‘White Trash’ Ruminates on an American Underclass 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z And eugenics was of particularly keen interest to doctors, including Albert Priddy, the superintendent of Ms. Buck’s institution. Review: Adam Cohen’s ‘Imbeciles’, on the Supreme Court and Justice Not for All 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Science, with its history of eugenics and biased IQ tests, hasn’t historically been a clear-eyed deliverance from discrimination, but rather a justification for it. Perspective | J.K. Rowling’s Twitter comments about transgender women treat equality like it’s a zero-sum game 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z You know this movement as eugenics, a term first coined by Charles Darwin’s cousin, Francis Galton. In an Age of Gene Editing and Surrogacy, What Does Heredity Mean? 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z At the time of Ms. Buck’s institutionalization, the United States was swept up in a mania for eugenics. Review: Adam Cohen’s ‘Imbeciles’, on the Supreme Court and Justice Not for All 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z In 1927, the American eugenics movement got a boost when the revered Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes endorsed the forced sterilization of a supposedly "feeble minded white woman" from Virginia named Carrie Buck. 'The Case Against the Supreme Court' pushes for reforms 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Some outrageous scientific claims were made during the heyday of the eugenics movement. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z For much of its history the study of genetics has operated under the long shadow of eugenics – the early 20th-century movement dedicated to “improving” the human race. Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z And this sort of leads to the eugenics idea of breeding, and good blood and bad blood. The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society” 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z It was the perfect place for Davenport to cultivate his interests in evolution, heredity, and eugenics. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z As chair of the biology department, he integrates eugenics into the curriculum and gains a reputation as an outspoken eugenicist. A timeline of racism in Charlottesville, from 1607 through 2017’s Unite the Right rally aftermath 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Charles Davenport articulated the goal of encouraging white Americans to have more children and stemming the invasion of undesirables in his “eugenics creed”: Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z It is also an allegory for the "forgetting" of colonising powers, the slave trade, eugenics and the historical horrors of science where black people were used for experimentation. Three essential tales of black vampirism 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z This is no ordinary fish tale, but instead relates the real-life story of a 19th-century American ichthyologist, a possible murder cover-up, and the horrifying reality of eugenics in America. "Why Fish Don't Exist" explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Robert Falls argued that these lines are “not a cut and dried case of Stockmann advocating eugenics.” Ibsen Wrote ‘An Enemy of the People’ in 1882. Trump Has Made It Popular Again. 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z For instance, the eugenics movement sanctioned doctors who unwittingly sterilized Black women during the early 20th century. "They got Daddy": Reckoning with my grandfather's kidnapping, racial terror and our family's trauma 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z In 1910, Davenport founded the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, a facility that became the epicenter of the American eugenics movement. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z Most grotesque and curdling are the visceral depictions of early 17th-century Britain – the squalor, inequality and religious eugenics. The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z In its heyday, support for eugenics was mainstream, and its advocates included progressive figures like Teddy Roosevelt and Margaret Sanger. SCOTUS’ shameful eugenics history: “We don’t provide the kind of justice that we claim to in our society” 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z I didn't have to fear it would somehow try to overthrow the government or practice eugenics or get books banned. Wordle was fun while it lasted 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z In the early part of the 20th century, eugenics was actually a very popular idea. SCOTUS’ shameful eugenics history: “We don’t provide the kind of justice that we claim to in our society” 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z “Women, though, were on the real front lines, incorporating eugenics into the fabric of everyday life.” ‘Sisters in Hate’ Offers a Window Into Women in the White Nationalist Movement 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, more complicated issues regarding genetics—genetic engineering, cloning, biotechnology, gene therapy—have replaced eugenics as topics of public interest. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z I told them this was eugenics, but it’s not even good eugenics. Dyslexic donors turned away from largest UK sperm bank 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that the monstrous tropes of horror’s mainstream began to be configured during the rise of eugenics in the United States. Midsommar's ableism resurrects the dark history of eugenics-inspired horror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Today, the old-fashioned expression of positive eugenics—matchmaking—still flourishes, although now it’s moved online. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z And this is another English idea I focus on – not only bloodlines, and lineage, and pedigree, but inheritance – this is what lays the foundation for the eugenics movement. The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society” 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z Four years later, she contributed a chapter about the “conflicting female ideals” under the Nazis to a book about art and eugenics. Wall Street Dealmaker Says Professor Took Him for a Ride 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The first half of the film is anchored by accounts of maltreatment, and also explores the uncomfortable history of eugenics in the United States; the second half looks at the modern-day push for justice. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Black Narcissus’ and ‘My Psychedelic Love Story’ 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The most insidious dimension of “Twilight” isn’t the sexual abstinence message but rather its invitation to eugenics. Television Review: A Teenager Learns He?s a Breed Apart 2011-06-03T22:30:21Z The eugenics movement tapped into this, measuring deviations from assumed norms, Smith said, and the presupposition that disability is something negative in need of fixing continues to inform modern medicine. Scary Is How You Act, Not Look, Disability Advocates Tell Filmmakers 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Following the Civil War, false claims about threats to the “white race” influenced the rising eugenics movement, Ross explained. Is anti-racist a code word for anti-white? No, but the people behind #WhiteGenocide may think so 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Although eugenics has long been discredited, myths about racial superiority being a scientific rather than social construct have perpetuated racism and had traumatic effects on communities in Hawaii and beyond. In Hawaii, Reimagining Tourism for a Post-Pandemic World 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z As philosopher Émile P. Torres pointed out in Salon, the people pushing "effective altruism" are often also infatuated with other far-right ideas like eugenics. The Donald Trump, George Santos, and SBF fraud cases expose the gullibility of rich conservatives 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Trump is willfully ignorant and does not read; his belief in eugenics and race science is intuitive and spiritual. What's behind Trump's "blood purity program" 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Early studies of the Y chromosome were tinged with eugenics. The Complete Human Y Chromosome Marks an Opportunity to Move Away from Stigma 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z One Neanderthal painting, created to reflect the vision of a eugenics advocate, made its way through decades of textbooks and museum displays. Science paints a new picture of the ancient past, when we mixed and mated with other kinds of humans 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Frank and Lillian believed in what’s called “positive eugenics,” which means they weren’t advocating for murdering or sterilizing people, but they did think that people with higher intelligence should reproduce more. This Efficiency-Obsessed Psychologist (and Mother of 11) Revolutionized Kitchen Design 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z A University of Arizona psychology professor attracted criticism in recent years for taking money from the Pioneer Fund, founded in 1937 by textiles magnate to promote the racist science of eugenics. How Wealthy UFO Fans Helped Fuel Fringe Beliefs 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps the collection's most visceral story, it examines eugenics and phrenology-based racism and builds to scenes of brutal horror. Lessons from Antarctica about Raising Kids in the Climate Crisis 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z Thousands of people were sterilized by the state during a pernicious eugenics drive that peaked in the 1930s and that even inspired Nazi Germany. Compensation for forced sterilizations in California ends soon. Here's how to apply 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z There's a reason that the discredited theory of eugenics laid the foundation for the Holocaust. Hey, Republicans! No one wants to watch you do push-ups 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Thousands of Indigenous Canadian women over the past seven decades were coercively sterilized, in line with eugenics legislation that deemed them inferior. Canada’s Indigenous women forcibly sterilized decades after other rich countries stopped 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z “Helping people with autism and intellectual disabilities to die is essentially eugenics,” Stainton said. Some Dutch people seeking euthanasia cite autism or intellectual disabilities, researchers say 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z I could no more sit down with RFK Jr. than I could sit down with a white supremacist and discuss eugenics. Column: Sorry, Joe Rogan: Scientists should never 'debate' anti-vaccine quacks. Here's why 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Roosevelt's ideas were primarily based in eugenics, the pseudoscience of controlling human reproduction to ensure that genetic traits deemed desirable were passed on. Theodore Roosevelt: The "progressive" president who sounded a lot like Donald Trump and Hitler 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Asked to elaborate, Mr. Kandula told police he admired their “authoritarian nature, eugenics, and their one world order.” Sai Varshith Kandula, U-Haul crash suspect, wanted to seize power, praised Hitler and Nazis 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Cardinal only realized she had been a victim of forced sterilization when her daughter, Anita, pieced it together after watching a video in a university class about eugenics and forced sterilization. Canada’s Indigenous women forcibly sterilized decades after other rich countries stopped 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z And well after the abolition of slavery, hospitals performed unnecessary hysterectomies on Black women, and eugenics programs sterilized them. Why do so many Black women die in pregnancy? One reason: Doctors don’t take them seriously 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Social Darwinism soon led to the field of eugenics, which advocated programs to sterilize the “unfit.” Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z He went on to cite “the racial history of abortion advocacy as a tool of the eugenics movement.” 3 judges who chipped away abortion rights to hear federal abortion pill appeal 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z In fact, it is the foundation of eugenics in the United States. I’m immunocompromised. I’ve been cautious about COVID. Thanks to everyone else, it doesn’t matter 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z The 19th-century physician and writer was an early promoter of racial eugenics and successfully pushed for the removal of the first Black students admitted to the school. Philosopher, Slaver and, Now, Former Face of Trinity College Library 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z “I view this whole issue the same as I view lobotomies or eugenics — it’s a bad medical fad,” he said. Many States Are Trying to Restrict Gender Treatments for Adults, Too 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z His second footnote launches into supposed ties between abortion rights advocates and the eugenics movement. Opinion | The worst federal judge in America now has a name 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z He also described some of the defense arguments as supporting "eugenics." Texas judge in abortion-pill lawsuit routinely favors conservatives 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z It is an abomination and a core tenet of eugenics. I’m immunocompromised. I’ve been cautious about COVID. Thanks to everyone else, it doesn’t matter 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z In spring 2021, the Legislature apologized to all Vermonters and their families and descendants who were harmed by state-sanctioned eugenics policies and practices that led to sterilizations. Former governor sues college over chapel name removal 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z “Names of pet animals are discouraged,” the guidelines note, and historical figures associated with “the slave trade, genocide or eugenics” are not acceptable. Centuries of Stargazing Leave Jesuit Names Written in the Heavens 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Her chapter on personal time management, for example, moves from the Protestant work ethic to what she calls “productivity bros” to the standardized A-F grading system to eugenics and scientific racism. Review | A collection of tools designed to help us make our time our own again 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z And the California Institute of Technology said it would rename buildings and locations that honored followers of the eugenics movement, a form of pseudoscientific racism. A school took his family name off a building. He’s demanding $3.6 billion. 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Despite the Biden administration's attempts to normalize it, "return to normal" is toxic nostalgia for the US's ugly history of segregation and eugenics. I’m immunocompromised. I’ve been cautious about COVID. Thanks to everyone else, it doesn’t matter 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z It wasn’t until the early 1990s that the society formally opposed eugenics theories. News at a glance: HIV vaccine failure, AI meteorite detective, and the Doomsday Clock 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Through its participation in and silence about eugenics and scientific racism, the field of genetics has also harmed itself, the report noted. World’s largest body of human geneticists apologizes for eugenics role 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z He also was friendly with some early club members who were white supremacists and who promoted eugenics. The Sierra Club Tries to Move Past John Muir, George Floyd and #MeToo 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Other institutions, such as Carnegie Institution for Science and University College London, have also apologized for their involvement in eugenics. Human geneticists apologize for past involvement in eugenics, scientific racism 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Unlike her other fiction, it doesn’t star aliens, vampires, eugenics or telepathy. Why it took 43 years to bring ‘Kindred’ to TV 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z The eugenics movement sought to prevent some people with mental illness or physical disabilities from being able to have children. California seeks sterilization victims to pay reparations 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z In the wake of World War II, Germany’s use of eugenics to forcibly sterilize hundreds of thousands and murder millions had dampened American public and scientific interest in the movement. World’s largest body of human geneticists apologizes for eugenics role 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Given the history of academic medicine’s exploitation of Black patients for research and eugenics purposes, this distrust is not entirely misplaced. Opinion | Med schools should de-emphasize standardized admissions tests 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z And there, in a much darker and more tragic chapter of the hospital’s history, her godmother was sterilized under California’s since-repealed eugenics law. General Hospital: Planning a new life for a mothballed L.A. landmark 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z The idea that population must be controlled has also lead to forced sterilizations and measures that have proven inhumane or have been linked to racist theories like eugenics. Earth Now Has 8 Billion Humans. This Man Wishes There Were None. 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Of the 45 people approved for reparations so far, just three were sterilized during the eugenics era. California seeks sterilization victims to pay reparations 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z He also tackles the most sinister uses of the science, such as how statistics was exploited to support eugenics in the late 1800s. Parasites Revealed to Be ‘Unseen Influencers’ of All Ecosystems 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Indeed, demographers agree fear of overpopulation is a bogeyman that masks sinister ideals like eugenics and anti-immigration. The population has reached 8 billion — but experts aren't worried about overpopulation. Here's why 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z California established a restitution fund for survivors among the estimated 20,000 women sterilized under the state’s 1909 eugenics law, but the women sterilized at County-USC were not eligible because the hospital is locally funded. General Hospital: Planning a new life for a mothballed L.A. landmark 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z She hadn’t even talked to her family or friends about whether she wanted children, and here was a man she barely knew speaking to her about eugenics. Perspective | Two sisters created a dating app that aims to ‘make love accessible’ 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Planned Parenthood has been publicly reckoning with allegations of racism, including critiques of its founder, Margaret Sanger, who believed in eugenics and was linked to white supremacist groups. Former Employee Sues Planned Parenthood Over Alleged Racism 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z From eugenics to conversion therapy, science has routinely been manipulated and invoked to justify racist, homophobic and transphobic beliefs and policies, and it remains rife with implicit bias of all kinds. Review | Neil deGrasse Tyson tries punditry, with less-than-stellar results 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The book spawned the concept of Malthusianism, which has since been used to justify everything from eugenics to the forced sterilization of "undesirable" citizens. The population has reached 8 billion — but experts aren't worried about overpopulation. Here's why 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Existing standards calling for teaching about the ways in which white supremacy, slavery, eugenics and the Ku Klux Klan are "morally wrong" were removed. A short history of fake history: Why fighting for the truth is critical 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z The supposed mind-body split has played a part in many troubling ideologies, from misogynist notions of womanhood to eugenics. ‘A roaring from my body’: Novelist Cai Emmons on writing while running out of time 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Article 1 of the law says: "To prevent birth of inferior descendants from the eugenics point of view and to protect the life and health of the mother as well." Abortion pill: Why Japanese women will need their partner's consent to get a tablet 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The ethical and moral line is not always clear or agreed upon, and some fear that modern reproductive technologies could lead to a new form of eugenics. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z In other words, transhumanism is the child of eugenics, an updated version of the belief that we should use science and technology to improve the "human stock." Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z A eugenics movement in the United States in the late nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth centuries sought to encourage childbearing among White people without disabilities and discourage it among those with physical or intellectual disabilities. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z So you can enslave African-American folks because they are somehow different, and then you come up with the justification: That difference is biological, eternal, unchanging, the kinds of thinking you hear from eugenics thinkers. Beyond the right-wing panic: Why "critical race theory" actually matters 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Morton’s studies laid the groundwork for the now discredited “race science” that contributed to 20th-century eugenics. Penn Museum to Bury Skulls of Enslaved People 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z They argue that these types of procedures will always be expensive and rare, so the fears of eugenics and “master” races are unfounded and overstated. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z As in the original, “Daughter” also features a thought-provoking consideration of the moral responsibilities of scientists as well as the controversies surrounding eugenics. Review | Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel puts a feminist twist on ‘Dr. Moreau’ 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z He supported white supremacy and a flavor of eugenics. Audubon’s beautiful birds don’t erase his racist life 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Several genre-defying books later, she published the blockbuster “Mexican Gothic,” a terrifying 1950s tale that delves into racism, colonialism and eugenics. How Silvia Moreno-Garcia's shapeshifting visions of Mexico took over the bestseller list 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Katarzyna Gesiak, who directs the group’s Center for Medical Law and Bioethics, said allowing for such exceptions amounted to “eugenics,” and denied that the law as it stands strips women of necessary medical protections. Poland's near-total abortion ban offers a grim glimpse of a possible U.S. future 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Aside from stoking opposition from religious conservatives, it also had ugly links with racism and eugenics. Avabai Wadia: The lawyer who became India’s family planning pioneer 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z It also has an introduction by the author explaining the historical threads that inspired her novel: the early 20th-century incarceration of “feebleminded” women and the disturbingly widespread support for the eugenics movement. Review | ‘The Foundling’ turns a serious subject into a perfect beach read 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Over its history, justices have found ways to rationalize everything from eugenics and forced sterilization to racial segregation and internment of citizens. Right-wing justices put Supreme Court at odds with America 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z If you bring people in the door, then you can also expose them to some of his white supremacist theories in eugenics, in a kind of subtle way. The real world behind "Jurassic World": How the story of dinosaurs reflects the story of humans 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z That year, Justice Clarence Thomas argued in an opinion that the eugenics movement opened the door for abortion rights. In abortion debate, echoes of another battle: Reproductive rights for Black women 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z This veers frighteningly close to eugenics: If the elderly drain our resources and they won't update their beliefs and they control government, why tolerate them at all? No, Elon Musk, America isn't a "gerontocracy": The real issue is massive wealth inequality 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z On the cover: The long shadow of eugenics in America. The Scene at the Border 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z This was part of a well-known eugenics movement in the early 20th century in Brazil. Japan and Brazil linked by soccer, baseball and immigration 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z But population control and eugenics have long targeted racial minorities, women, indigenous people. What is "ecofascism" — and what does it have to do with the Buffalo shooting? 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Social scientists have discredited eugenics, which was popular in the early 20th century, as a pseudoscience obsessed with the genetic fitness of White Americans. In abortion debate, echoes of another battle: Reproductive rights for Black women 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z The claim is simply false and echoes the egregious arguments made in the early 20th century by Margaret Sanger in support of the eugenics movement. Opinion | Tim Scott: Abortion is not the way to help single Black mothers 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z In Vermont, for instance, opponents are invoking eugenics to claim the protections would be so open-ended they would allow abortions aimed at selecting specific biological traits. State constitutions loom as the next front in abortion battle 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z “Race science” and eugenics — a concept of selective racial reproduction, now discredited — gained currency at Harvard in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Harvard leaders and staff enslaved 79 people, university finds 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z The Yerkes National Primate Research Center is named for psychologist and primatologist Robert Yerkes, who the university said “vigorously supported” eugenics. Emory University to drop names of 2 men, citing their pasts 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Historians of the eugenics and abortion movements have called this argument a deeply flawed, willful distortion of history. In abortion debate, echoes of another battle: Reproductive rights for Black women 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Such beliefs were buttressed by decades of mainstream eugenics, a profoundly flawed understanding of the science of genes that still contaminates aspects of our culture and politics. Review | When a family tree is rooted in racism 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z By the early 20th century, the eugenics movement and the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 aimed to eliminate the entire classification of Native Americans, declaring that every resident had to be either Black or White. Rappahannock Tribe reacquires ancestral Virginia land, 350 years later 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Freeman was a newspaper editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who supported segregation and eugenics and opposed interracial marriage. University of Richmond strips names of enslavers from campus buildings 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Many racist projects — from the eugenics movement to Nazism to present-day White nationalism — have argued that racial differences have deep genetic roots. New evidence revives old questions about E.O. Wilson and race 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The Mississippi clinic is not affiliated with Planned Parenthood, and Planned Parenthood itself denounces Sanger’s belief in eugenics. Minority women most affected if abortion is banned, limited 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Raised in Miami in the 1970s, Newton, a critic and a former lawyer, is a product of what she calls a eugenics project. Review | When a family tree is rooted in racism 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The response was furious, starting at his own school, where colleagues accused him of genetic determinism and tied the theory to Nazi eugenics, racism, sexism, sterilization and restrictions on immigration. Edward O. Wilson, Harvard naturalist often cited as heir to Darwin, dies at 92 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Critics at the time decried the theory as carrying echoes of eugenics. E.O. Wilson, naturalist dubbed a modern-day Darwin, dies at 92 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z In 2002, Rushton took the helm of the Pioneer Fund, an organization founded in the 1930s to promote eugenics, the idea that humanity can be improved by manipulating which people reproduce. New evidence revives old questions about E.O. Wilson and race 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a lengthy opinion in which he said the Indiana law “and other laws like it promote a State’s compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics.” Justices asked to let Arizona enforce ban on some abortions 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z And in the next 2 days, researchers will discuss the history of eugenics in a series of talks at the National Human Genome Research Institute. Human geneticists curb use of the term ‘race’ in their papers 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z In January, the California Institute of Technology announced it would rename buildings and other campus assets that had honored several backers of the racist eugenics movement. Fresno State’s library named for a man who expressed ‘clear antisemitic hate’ and Nazi sympathies, university says 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z In 2019, he related abortion to eugenics, praising an Indiana law that would have made it illegal for someone to perform an abortion because of the fetus’s race, sex, disability or diagnosis of Down syndrome. For Clarence Thomas, avowed critic of Roe v. Wade, Mississippi abortion case a moment long awaited 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z “The slip from genetics to eugenics is one that can happen quite easily,” said Dr. Brooks. The DNA of Roma People Has Long Been Misused, Scientists Reveal 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z As a student, it became clear over the years that von KleinSmid’s role in supporting the eugenics movement needed to be addressed, he said. A USC building stripped of eugenicist's name will instead honor a Native American alumnus 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z In announcing that his name would be removed last January, Rosenbaum said “Millikan lent his name and his prestige to a morally reprehensible eugenics movement that already had been discredited scientifically during his time.” After admitting founder's eugenics past, Caltech honors a diversity of campus figures 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z In total, what is being advocated for is really a type of economic eugenics. Historian Nancy MacLean: We're seeing a right-wing plan built on "decades of disinformation" 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z “Put differently, this law and other laws like it promote a state’s compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics.” For Clarence Thomas, avowed critic of Roe v. Wade, Mississippi abortion case a moment long awaited 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z Bell and the U.S. eugenics movement has affected both state disability policies and reproductive health services. Britney’s conservatorship exemplifies how the legacy of eugenics continues to affect disabled women 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z While the victims of eugenics were generally poor, that wasn’t always the case. Britney Spears, Carrie Buck and the awful history of controlling ‘unfit’ women 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Two years before that, Mead had strongly urged the legislature to adopt policies and create legislation premised on eugenics theory, they said. Middlebury College to strip chapel name over eugenics role 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z As with so many things, this phenomenon can be linked to racism, specifically the eugenics movements which held that knowledge about genetics could be manipulated to create "perfect" specimens in the human and animal world. Our smushed-faced dogs are quietly suffering for us 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Or use biology classes to teach of eugenics and how race has framed the way we think of humans? New York’s Private Schools Tackle White Privilege. It Has Not Been Easy. 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z But these beliefs come from the long shadow of eugenics and the stigma and stereotypes that continue to dominate conversations around disability and reproduction. Britney’s conservatorship exemplifies how the legacy of eugenics continues to affect disabled women 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z The state passed a law in July to provide reparations for these women and the several hundred people sterilized during the eugenics era who are still living. Britney Spears, Carrie Buck and the awful history of controlling ‘unfit’ women 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The move follows the Legislature’s apology last spring to all Vermonters and their families and descendants who were harmed by state-sanctioned eugenics policies and practices that led to sterilizations. Middlebury College to strip chapel name over eugenics role 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z While he briefly mentions Nazi doctors and their horrifying experiments on concentration-camp prisoners, he skips entirely over early 20th-century U.S. eugenics, a branch of pseudoscience concerned with preserving "fit" human bloodlines and discarding the "unfit." Tales of scientists gone rogue (or worse) 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z Young minds would also no longer be instructed that the eugenics movement and Ku Klux Klan are “morally wrong.” Column: Remembering the Alamo, Texans fight over myth versus history 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Bell became a bellwether of the eugenics movement, which sought to eliminate "negative traits" through selective breeding. Britney’s conservatorship exemplifies how the legacy of eugenics continues to affect disabled women 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Clarence Thomas tried to link abortion to eugenics. Britney Spears, Carrie Buck and the awful history of controlling ‘unfit’ women 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The following year, the outgoing president of UVM apologized for the school’s involvement in eugenics research, calling it “unethical and regrettable.” Middlebury College to strip chapel name over eugenics role 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Lurking in the background of every discussion on embryo selection and ethics is the specter of eugenics. A New Era of Designer Babies May Be Based on Overhyped Science 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z The move follows similar efforts in Virginia and North Carolina to compensate victims of the eugenics movement, which peaked in the United States in the early 20th century and inspired similar practices in Nazi Germany. ‘You Just Feel Like Nothing’: California to Pay Sterilization Victims 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z California’s proposal is unique because it would apply to more than just victims of the eugenics law that was repealed in 1979. California to pay victims of forced, coerced sterilizations 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z But to historians of eugenics, Spears’s ordeal sounds very familiar. Britney Spears, Carrie Buck and the awful history of controlling ‘unfit’ women 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Republicans backing the measure say it would prevent a “modern-day eugenics” by ensuring disabled people wouldn’t need to pass a genetic test in order to be born. Cooper vetoes NC bill banning Down syndrome abortions 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Anomaly told The Times that he regretted the title of the 2018 paper and that he no longer uses the word eugenics because of the controversy it tends to cause. A startup says it helps parents pick healthier embryos. Experts say it's not that simple 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z In this he was prescient, for indeed both have been used to justify not only laissez-faire capitalism and political conservatism, but also colonialism, eugenics, racism and eventually fascism. Reconsider cancel-culture target at WWU 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z California’s law was so prominent it even inspired similar practices in Nazi Germany, according to Paul Lombardo, a law professor at Georgia State University and an expert on the eugenics movement. California to pay victims of forced, coerced sterilizations 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z “This prevents modern-day eugenics that eliminates people before birth because of their disability,” said Rep. Dean Arp, R-Union, one of the lawmakers sponsoring the bill. N.C. bill banning Down syndrome abortions nears floor vote 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z As in the early 20th century, when eugenics first flourished, the pervasive contempt for such dependents cannot be disentangled from fears of non-whites gaining dominance. Eugenics, racism and the forced sterilization of heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The effort to link abortion with eugenics and deracination is part of a longer-range strategy to destabilize and eventually overrule Roe. Opinion | A new, racialized assault on abortion rights is headed to the Supreme Court 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z He had supported segregation, white supremacy and eugenics. U of Richmond board to resume talks on renaming buildings 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Of the people California sterilized under its old eugenics law, just a few hundred are still alive, according to research conducted by California Latinas for Reproductive Justice. California to pay victims of forced, coerced sterilizations 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Freeman, a prominent Richmond trustee in the early 20th century, supported racial segregation and eugenics. University of Richmond trustees ‘suspend’ decision on building names with ties to slavery and segregation 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z The heiress hardly resembled the typical victim of eugenics; she was educated, wealthy and white. Eugenics, racism and the forced sterilization of heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Thomas’s linking of abortion to a racist history of eugenics, although misleading, lays the foundation for concluding that racial injustice provides that “special justification” for overruling Roe. Opinion | A new, racialized assault on abortion rights is headed to the Supreme Court 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z In January, the California Institute of Technology announced it will rename buildings and other campus assets that had honored an early 20th-century leader of the institute and several others who backed the discredited eugenics movement. Uproar erupts at U. of Richmond over building names with ties to racism 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The eugenics movement of Vollmer’s time was inevitably linked to racist ideas about inferior, darker races outnumbering the superior White race. Perspective | Sure, erase the names of history’s racists. That won’t undo their messes. 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Indeed, tomboyism as we know it arose in concert with eugenics. Perspective | The latest form of transphobia: Saying lesbians are going extinct 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Long after Ann's death and the eventual repeal of sterilization laws, the heiress's story and that of eugenics, more broadly, remain instructive. Eugenics, racism and the forced sterilization of heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Indeed, the involuntary sterilization of incarcerated people, which continues to occur in the 21st century, is a civil rights abuse inspired by eugenics. Human Genetics Needs an Antiracism Plan 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Plaques, monuments and building names associated with slavery, the Confederacy, segregation, eugenics and white supremacy have come under unprecedented scrutiny from institutions that had long overlooked, played down or ignored the messages they conveyed. Uproar erupts at U. of Richmond over building names with ties to racism 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The history of educational exams is tied to the history of eugenics, with early psychologists designing tests as a way to try to prove the “inferiority” of non-White races. Perspective | Elite public schools won’t become more diverse just by ditching exams 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Missing from that image, though, are realities like the state’s history of eugenics starting in the 1920s that led to sterilizations, said Pablo Bose, an associate geography professor at the University of Vermont. New NAACP head: Black Vermonters deserve to enjoy state, too 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Salon spoke to Catte recently about the scars of America's eugenics movement, and how it's not hard to spot the modern day equivalents all around us. "Pure America" author Elizabeth Catte sees "the shadow of eugenics on almost everything" 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z Today, there is an effort to distance modern genetics from the harms of eugenics. Human Genetics Needs an Antiracism Plan 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The leaders in question were the Rev. Robert Ryland, an enslaver who was the school’s founding president, and Douglas Southall Freeman, who advocated racial segregation and eugenics and was a prominent university trustee. Uproar erupts at U. of Richmond over building names with ties to racism 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z After proponents of the ban vilified abortions motivated by a Down syndrome diagnosis as “eugenics,” the entire House committee, including two Democrats, pushed the bill to the full House. Noem’s bill banning Down syndrome abortions gains support 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Utilizing genome manipulation tools and performing genetic selection is tantamount to engaging in what Rosemarie calls “velvet eugenics.” The Dark Side of CRISPR 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z That was articulated very fully in the eugenics movement and it's still articulated fully today across a range of political debate. "Pure America" author Elizabeth Catte sees "the shadow of eugenics on almost everything" 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z “This is clearly erasure, this is eugenics, and I consider this a form of violence. It is a form of violence against the most marginalized communities.” 'It's a form of violence': Disabled Californians outraged over vaccine de-prioritization 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z In a Feb. 25 letter to the university community, Crutcher said Richmond will mark Freeman’s “achievements and dedication to the University, while also openly recognizing his racist beliefs and advocacy for segregation and eugenics.” Uproar erupts at U. of Richmond over building names with ties to racism 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z USC also removed a name of a prominent campus building last year which was named after a eugenics leader and the university’s fifth president. UC Berkeley removes Kroeber Hall name, citing namesake’s 'immoral' work with Native Americans 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z The reason is their association with the Human Betterment Foundation, a major promoter of the discredited science of eugenics and of programs to forcibly sterilize those whom eugenicists labeled “feeble-minded” or “unfit.” Column: Confronting a racist past, Caltech will excise names of eugenics backers from campus 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z When people ask me today, "How do we interrupt contemporary eugenics?" it always starts with healthcare and universal healthcare. "Pure America" author Elizabeth Catte sees "the shadow of eugenics on almost everything" 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z They included Harry Chandler, who served as Los Angeles Times publisher from 1917-44 and joined Millikan on the board of the Human Betterment Foundation, a Pasadena-based group that promoted eugenics. Caltech to remove name of founding president, a eugenics supporter, from buildings 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z He supported racial segregation, opposed interracial marriage and promoted racist concepts underlying the eugenics movement. Uproar erupts at U. of Richmond over building names with ties to racism 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z And there was the era of 20th century eugenics, where thousands upon thousands of Black American women who went to state health facilities for routine medical procedures were sterilized without their knowledge. Blame America, not Black Americans, for fear of COVID-19 vaccine 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z “I charged them with looking at original sources — let’s get the history right about Millikan, eugenics, his role and all his contributions,” he says. Column: Confronting a racist past, Caltech will excise names of eugenics backers from campus 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z Is it eugenics to send restaurant workers to work knowing that they might contract a potentially fatal illness? "Pure America" author Elizabeth Catte sees "the shadow of eugenics on almost everything" 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z In reviewing the eugenics issue, committee members pored over historical documents, interviewed experts and reviewed more than 1,500 community responses. Caltech to remove name of founding president, a eugenics supporter, from buildings 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z The inquiries are looking at issues as varied as whether Ku Klux Klan money helped found particular schools; resistance to integration; and institutional support for eugenics and other racist science. Johns Hopkins, benefactor of namesake hospital and university, was an enslaver 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Walter Fernald himself was a proponent of eugenics and forced sterilizations, which occurred at the institution, according to a letter to the mayor from Phillip Kassel, executive director of the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee. Advocates want light show moved from former mental facility 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z The committee’s report considered and bluntly rejected the defense that eugenics was an accepted scientific pursuit in Millikan’s time. Column: Confronting a racist past, Caltech will excise names of eugenics backers from campus 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z But you do write a book like this and start to see the shadow of eugenics on almost everything around you. "Pure America" author Elizabeth Catte sees "the shadow of eugenics on almost everything" 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z Rosenbaum said one of the most difficult decisions was how to strike a proper balance between recognizing both Millikan’s towering contributions to Caltech and science and his failures in embracing the eugenics ideology. Caltech to remove name of founding president, a eugenics supporter, from buildings 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z Stopes supported eugenics, the now-discredited movement to improve the human race through selective reproduction. Marie Stopes changes name over founder’s eugenics ideas 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z The charity said her views on eugenics were in "stark contrast" to its values. Abortion provider changes name over Marie Stopes eugenics link 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z What delivered the reputational death blow to eugenics may have been its association with Nazi doctrine in Germany. Column: Confronting a racist past, Caltech will excise names of eugenics backers from campus 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z But he leaves out the implicit eugenics of the approach. Opinion | Wrangling Over Herd Immunity and Masks as Covid Cases Keep Rising 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z The other figures whose names will be removed from campus assets are Ezra S. Gosney, William B. Munro, Henry M. Robinson and Albert B. Ruddock because of their affiliation with eugenics. Caltech to remove name of founding president, a eugenics supporter, from buildings 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z Many also wondered if it would lead to eugenics or "designer babies"?The debate was renewed in 2010 when Britain reported its first saviour sibling. India's first 'saviour sibling' cures brother of fatal illness 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z In the United States, government and medical authorities no longer promote eugenics through laws allowing forced sterilization, for instance, or barring marriages with the “feeble-minded” or between races. UC Berkeley is disavowing its eugenic research fund after bioethicist and other faculty call it out 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z This time around, there was more racism, along with the president's bizarre and fascistic obsession with eugenics. What "civil" debate? The one I watched revealed Donald Trump as a cold-blooded psychopath 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z I sat through him ripping the play apart, telling me the audience of 80-plus people were wrong, and continually use the word “Ebonics” rather than eugenics, which is a topic in my play. 40 Black playwrights on the theater industry’s insidious racism 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Revisit the era of involuntary sterilization, a tactic the U.S. eugenics movement used to eliminate the reproduction of those deemed “unfit.” Why So Many Americans Are Skeptical of a Coronavirus Vaccine 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z David Starr Jordan was the founding president of Stanford University and an advocate of the racist eugenics movement. Los Angeles school removes name of eugenics backer 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The fund’s primary stated purpose was “the improvement of the human race through research and education in that field generally known as eugenics,” Obasogie said. UC Berkeley is disavowing its eugenic research fund after bioethicist and other faculty call it out 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z At first blush, the California Institute of Technology seemed to respond promptly and well to the uproar sparked this summer over its apparent complicity with the racist eugenics movement of a century ago. Column: Caltech's effort to confront its racist past hits a snag 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Such reconsiderations of those associated with eugenics are reverberating across colleges and K-12 school districts. Watts' Jordan High cuts association with promoter of eugenics but keeps partial name 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Contrary to claims by scientists who supported eugenics, the factors used to determine if a person was “unfit” were strongly correlated with their economic status, not their genetics. Why So Many Americans Are Skeptical of a Coronavirus Vaccine 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z In the late 1800s and early 1900s, some mainstream scientists and elected officials in the United States, particularly in California, urged “the improvement” of the citizenry through eugenics. Trump's touting of 'racehorse theory' tied to eugenics and Nazis alarms Jewish leaders 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z That “modern definition of eugenics” included “perspectives that shed light on not only the benefits but also the limitations and the ethics of these alternative approaches to improving the human race.” UC Berkeley is disavowing its eugenic research fund after bioethicist and other faculty call it out 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z She suggested that some committee members seemed intent on minimizing the impact of eugenics and the Human Betterment Foundation on the victims of sterilization. Column: Caltech's effort to confront its racist past hits a snag 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Trump's admiration for racial purity and "his ongoing eugenics fixation" has been expressed in his lavish praise for what he called the "good genes" of an overwhelmingly white audience in Minnesota. Dystopian plagues and fascist politics in the age of Trump: Finding hope in the darkness 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Trustee Patrick Shoulders voted against he change, saying a university committee found no evidence that Jordan’s name was placed on the sites to recognize his connections to eugenics. Indiana University removes Jordan name over eugenics support 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z He said eugenics theory was used to justify forced sterilization laws, as well as immigration restrictions and miscegenation prohibitions. Trump's touting of 'racehorse theory' tied to eugenics and Nazis alarms Jewish leaders 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z He also supported the eugenics movement, which advocated for forced sterilizations of people viewed as undesirable, often meaning immigrants or people with mental illness, the newspaper reported. UMaine will rename building named for eugenics advocate 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Some even tried to rationalize eugenics as standard intellectual thinking in Millikan’s era and compulsory sterilization as “an artifact of limited scientific understanding during the early 20th century,” she said. Column: Caltech's effort to confront its racist past hits a snag 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Officials at Indiana University are removing the name of a former school president from a building, river and a street after renewed criticism over his role in promoting eugenics. Universities removing historic names amid racial justice movement 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Mincberg noted that the opinion foreshadowed an opinion by Justice Thomas that referenced eugenics repeatedly. Where has Amy Coney Barrett stood on important cases? 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Racehorse theory “is basically like a forerunner to eugenics theory, which led to the Nazis’ ‘final solution,’” Eshman said after Trump’s Minnesota comments. Trump's touting of 'racehorse theory' tied to eugenics and Nazis alarms Jewish leaders 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z When Mar hosted a discussion with Ginsburg about her career in February, she wrote on her op-ed, she didn’t get to a planned question about the North Carolina eugenics case for lack of time. Editorial Roundup: North Carolina 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Sam alleged that “several committee members are eugenics apologists,” though she didn’t identify them. Column: Caltech's effort to confront its racist past hits a snag 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z That didn’t stop Barrett from joining a dissent that labeled the law a “eugenics statute.” Opinion | Amy Coney Barrett’s judicial record should alarm liberals 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z But it's clear enough that regardless of the historical context, Trump is on Ford's wavelength when it comes to eugenics. Trump's eugenics obsession: He thinks he has "good German genes," because he's a fascist 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z “With Alexander Graham Bell, there was talk about his involvement with eugenics as something that was very, very serious,” Reyes-Gavilan said in an interview, explaining why the inventor was on the list. D.C. committee recommends stripping the names of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Scott Key and others from city government buildings 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Teachers College at Columbia University, which has its own board of trustees, voted in July to remove the name of Edward L. Thorndike, who promoted eugenics and sexist and anti-Semitic ideas, from a building there. After 90 Years, Columbia Takes Slave Owner’s Name Off a Dorm 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z Rosenbaum acknowledged that Millikan had been “associated with the morally reprehensible eugenics movement.” Column: Caltech's effort to confront its racist past hits a snag 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Last month, Columbia’s Teachers College announced it was removing psychologist Edward Thorndike’s name from a campus building because he was a proponent of eugenics and expressed racist, sexist, and antisemitic views. Columbia taking slave-owning doctor’s name off campus dorm 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z Trump is poorly educated, so he probably doesn't even know that such language evokes Nazi Germany's eugenics program and Adolf Hitler's theory of the "master race," especially when discussing the notorious anti-Semite Henry Ford. Trump's eugenics obsession: He thinks he has "good German genes," because he's a fascist 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z The episode offers the zoological society the opportunity to educate the public about the history of the conservation movement and its ties to eugenics. Why a zoo took 114 years to apologise for caging a man 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z The intellectual roots of eugenics sought to improve the human species through breeding. Reckoning with Our Mistakes 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Caltech, moreover, has lagged well behind other institutions in ending their memorialization of eugenics promoters. Column: Caltech's effort to confront its racist past hits a snag 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z At once driven by claims of biological determinism and supported by the authoritarian heft of British empiricism, Francis Galton pioneered an insidious form of human scrutiny that would come to be known as eugenics. Darwin, Expression, and the lasting legacy of eugenics 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z The concept of eugenics shows up in Jordan’s writings and talks during the 1880s and 1890s. Indiana University reviews legacy of school’s 7th president 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z And last week, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York removed the name of Margaret Sanger, a founder of the national organization, from its Manhattan health clinic because of her connections to the eugenics movement. N.Y.C. Seal, With a Native American in Loincloth, Faces Scrutiny 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Long before it became the obsession of the Nazi regime, the bias along racial and class lines had become apparent—yet we continued covering eugenics neutrally rather than critically. Reckoning with Our Mistakes 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z “The implication there was that eugenics ideology and committing crimes against humanity was simply a matter of politics, not ethical standards.” Column: Caltech's effort to confront its racist past hits a snag 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z He wrote that the lab repudiates “the social and political construct of eugenics, an idea and movement now thoroughly discredited on both scientific and moral grounds.” Science center to remove name of eugenics supporter founder 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Jordan seemed to mostly use eugenics as justification for his anti-war policies. Indiana University reviews legacy of school’s 7th president 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z Early Sierra Club members and leaders such as Joseph LeConte and David Starr Jordan “were vocal advocates for white supremacy and its pseudo-scientific arm, eugenics.” Liberal, progressive — and racist? The Sierra Club faces its white-supremacist history. 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Articles written against eugenics were often labeled “the opposition.” Reckoning with Our Mistakes 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z For example, Jordan supported forced sterilization laws and founded the Human Betterment Foundation, a group whose research later inspired eugenics legislation in Nazi Germany. Sierra Club to address racist, white supremacist history, overhaul leadership 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z The twisted evil of eugenics made real in the novel ‘Mexican Gothic’ Review: A stranger and a strange town meet cute — or do they? — in Catherine Lacey's 'Pew' 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z In addition to noting Muir’s history, the post also said that two other club founders, Joseph LeConte and David Starr Jordan, were white supremacists and that Jordan was a leading believer in eugenics. Sierra Club calls out the racism of John Muir 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z But her legacy also includes supporting eugenics, a discredited belief in improving the human race through selective breeding, often targeted at poor people, those with disabilities, immigrants and people of color. Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z But the same editors who recognized that eugenics was a dangerous pseudoscience should not have given eugenicists a platform at all. Reckoning with Our Mistakes 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z In its announcement of the renaming, the university said, “Many of Barringer’s research conclusions, including his support for eugenics, have been discredited.” Racial reckoning draws in namesakes of Virginia Tech’s past 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z The twisted evil of eugenics made real in the novel ‘Mexican Gothic’ Review: A stranger and a strange town meet cute — or do they? — in Catherine Lacey's 'Pew' 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z The comment was a clear reference to Planned Parenthood's founder Margaret Sanger, whose support for eugenics and racially charged statements in a 1939 letter remain a source of pain for many in the Black community. Kanye West's Planned Parenthood fight revives rift between pro-choice movement, Black evangelicals 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The eugenics movement had wide support at the time in both conservative and liberal circles, Ms. Chesler said, and Ms. Sanger was squarely in the latter camp. Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Platt argues that a reconsideration of Millikan and the institution’s links to the eugenics movement is long overdue. Column: Caltech faces reckoning over its links to eugenics and sterilization movement 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z They are copies of Indigenous peoples’ heads, some of them death masks, plaster moulds that served the voodoo sciences of phrenology and eugenics, and its guiding light of Darwinism. The room of the dead: how a museum became a halfway house for bones and spirits 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Drivers of the decision included Little’s high-profile support of eugenics and his work for the U.S. tobacco industry to dispute evidence linking smoking to cancer. Amid protests against racism, scientists move to strip offensive names from journals, prizes, and more 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z As a result, Nieto-Phillips said some Hispanics in the region took on a solely Spanish American identity over their mixed heritage to embrace whiteness amid the racist eugenics movement. ‘Conquistador’ image on New Mexico water tank targeted 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z “The biggest concern with Margaret Sanger is her public support for the eugenics medical philosophy which was rooted in racism, ableism and classism,” Ms. McGee said. Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The organizers aim to force Caltech to recognize Millikan’s role in promoting the openly racist doctrine of eugenics and policies of forced sterilization and segregation in schools and housing. Column: Caltech faces reckoning over its links to eugenics and sterilization movement 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z “It recalls the American eugenics movement which targeted Native and African Americans up until the 1970s,” he said. Calls for UN probe of China forced birth control on Uighurs 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Universities concerned about creating diverse and empowering atmospheres are wise to reconsider whose names adorn their buildings, says UM historian Alexandra Minna Stern, who has chronicled the evolution of eugenics in the United States. Amid protests against racism, scientists move to strip offensive names from journals, prizes, and more 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Other contemporary sterilizations are stark proof of the failure to learn the lessons of the eugenics era. Belly of the Beast: California's dark history of forced sterilizations 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Noemí finds journals and papers about eugenics in Howard’s library, and reads a marked passage about the “impulsive temperament” of “the half-breed mestizo.” The twisted evil of eugenics made real in the novel 'Mexican Gothic' 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z The purported science of eugenics blanketed the world in the 1920s and 1930s. Column: Caltech faces reckoning over its links to eugenics and sterilization movement 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z “Abortions carried out because of a baby’s sex, race, or potential disability, such as Down syndrome, constitutes modern-day eugenics,” Liebel said Tuesday. Mississippi bill would ban abortion for race, sex, genetics 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z "It is pretty shocking that modern-day eugenics are still happening," Cohn told Fox News. New documentary highlights the forced sterilization of women in California prison 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z The controversy around Fisher involves his legacy as a founder and advocate for eugenics. For Scientific Institutions, Racial Reconciliation Requires Reparations 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z As in other Latin-American countries, eugenics in Mexico was weaponized to encourage the procreation of the “fit” in order to rebuild the post-war population. The twisted evil of eugenics made real in the novel 'Mexican Gothic' 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Even after World War II, when the consequences of the Nazi embrace of eugenics were well known, “there was no reflection at Caltech of what Millikan had participated in.” Column: Caltech faces reckoning over its links to eugenics and sterilization movement 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z But his support of eugenics clash with USC’s values today, she said. USC removes name of Rufus Von KleinSmid, a eugenics supporter, from prominent building 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Ronald Fisher, a pioneer of statistics, is also a pioneer of eugenics. Silence Is Never Neutral; Neither Is Science 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z If Fisher saw his eugenics work as an appropriate extension of his research in statistical genetics, why should we slice and dice his legacy, and celebrate only the parts we approve of? For Scientific Institutions, Racial Reconciliation Requires Reparations 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Mexico has a fraught history with eugenics, which flourished after the Revolution of the early 20th century. The twisted evil of eugenics made real in the novel 'Mexican Gothic' 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Early conservationists were sometimes overtly racist, espousing white supremacy and encouraging the use of eugenics. Responding to protests, green groups reckon with their own racist past 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Womble spent his last years in the General Assembly seeking financial payments and other assistance for victims of the state-sponsored eugenics program that ended in the 1970s. N.C. Rep. Womble, champion for sterilization victims, dies 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The Alexandria, Virginia-based Washington Summit Publishers "reprints a range of classical and modern racist tracts, along with books on eugenics, the discredited 'science' of breeding better humans," according to SPLC. Funding hate: How online merchants and payment processors aid white nationalists 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z The report produced by the university’s eugenics inquiry failed to acknowledge this properly, which is one of several reasons why the majority of the inquiry committee refused to sign it. Eugenics history: university geneticists respond 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Bell, the infamous 1927 decision that upheld a Virginia eugenics law permitting the forced sterilization of people thought to have intellectual disabilities. The peril of state power amid COVID-19 pandemic 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z She looks backward at the ominous history of eugenics, which was harnessed by the Nazis and by racist authors today. Review | How DNA testing is reshaping the ways we think about ‘family’ 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z “But this ignores how these ideas manifest in the real world … The people on the receiving end of the worldview that drove eugenics understand how alive it remains.” Daily briefing: A protein on the surface of the coronavirus might explain why it is so contagious 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z This is made easier by scientists who are willing to separate science from politics, even when — as with eugenics — it was inherently political to begin with. Want to do better science? Admit you’re not objective 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z One of those appointees, Andrew Sabisky, resigned this week after media reports highlighted his previous comments about eugenics. Has the UK science minister been demoted? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z But Cummings’s hiring of an aide with a digital trail of comments seeming to support eugenics has resulted in major embarrassment for Johnson’s government. Boris Johnson aide who seemed to support eugenics resigns, in major embarrassment for British government 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z His comments followed the resignation of Downing Street adviser Andrew Sabisky, criticised for comments on pregnancies, eugenics and race. Andrew Sabisky: What is superforecasting? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z It also declined, despite many requests, to state that the prime minister rejects theories of eugenics or racial superiority. Boris Johnson Aide Quits After Furor Over Racial Comments 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The people on the receiving end of the worldview that drove eugenics understand how alive it remains. Want to do better science? Admit you’re not objective 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Boris Johnson’s controversial new adviser, Andrew Sabisky, has resigned after the prime minister was accused of condoning his writings on eugenics and race that suggested black people are on average less intelligent than white people. Boris Johnson adviser quits over race and eugenics controversy 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Spokesman Jamie Davies also refused to say whether the prime minister agreed with Sabisky’s views, which critics say amount to support for eugenics, the now-discredited movement to improve the human race through selective reproduction. UK’s Johnson under pressure over adviser who linked IQ, race 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z British evolutionary biologist and famed atheist Richard Dawkins sparked outrage on Twitter after he wrote that putting ideology and morality aside, eugenics or the selective breeding of humans would “of course” work in practice. Richard Dawkins slammed for saying ‘of course’ eugenics would work 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The history here is important, because this process is exactly what happened at the birth of scientific racism and the birth of eugenics.” No 10 refuses to comment on PM's views of racial IQ 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The UCL inquiry report recommends that students and staff be exposed to the history of eugenics, and that students be encouraged to value the history of their own fields. Want to do better science? Admit you’re not objective 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z His fortunes dwindle, and his ideas become increasingly bizarre — although the film doesn’t go as far as noting Tesla’s later full-throated support for eugenics. Tesla is a weird, fourth-wall-breaking take on the internet’s favorite inventor 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z In these emails, Miller defends white supremacist neo-Confederates and traffics in eugenics and other forms of white supremacist pseudoscience that purports to prove the inferiority of black people and other nonwhites. I spent MLK Day reading Stephen Miller's racist emails. Here's why 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Care to elaborate on what a “working” model of eugenics is? Richard Dawkins slammed for saying ‘of course’ eugenics would work 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z This was an era when lots of reformist types also supported eugenics, and the role of similar bigotry in the rise of zoning can’t be denied. News Analysis: How we got single-family home zoning and why it is under attack in the U.S. 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Many tribes were nearly erased in the early part of the 20th century when officials following the eugenics movement insisted on classifying every Virginian as either “white” or “colored.” Virginia’s Monacan tribe uses new federal status to take a stand for what could be its long-lost capital 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z But Stephens' overriding assumption about Jewish intelligence prompted many to accuse him of promoting eugenics. New York Times' Bret Stephens faces racism accusations after penning 'Jewish genius' column 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z Church said that his idea offers users choice, whereas eugenics is “coercive”. Dating app based on genetic matching not eugenics, scientist says 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z I have literally never seen an argument against eugenics that hinges on the idea of whether or not it “would work.” Richard Dawkins slammed for saying ‘of course’ eugenics would work 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Jordan was a famed fish scientist and the first chancellor of Stanford University, along with being a proponent of eugenics, a system of controlled breeding that aimed to create better genetic characteristics. Burbank middle school removes mural of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z For Duster, eugenics through the “front door” was exemplified by Nazi Germany’s mobilization of science, technology, propaganda and statecraft to demonize people with traits deemed ‘unfit’. Books for our time: seven classics that speak to us now 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z You'll just find out who you are compatible with,” the geneticist George Church told “60 Minutes” reporter Scott Pelley about his project many criticized as an experiment in eugenics. Analysis | The Daily 202: The Afghanistan Papers show the corrosive consequences of letting corruption go unchecked 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z There was, for one thing, the need to repudiate the first half of the 20th century, during which science textbooks were replete with racial stereotypes and uncritical references to eugenics. Can Biology Class Reduce Racism? 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Dawkins attempted to further explain his argument, insisting that he “deplores” eugenics but nonetheless thinks it would “work” on humans just as it does on animals. Richard Dawkins slammed for saying ‘of course’ eugenics would work 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, endorsed eugenics, but the assertion that Nelson’s theory rests on – that most Planned Parenthood clinics are in black neighborhoods – has also been discredited. The dubious world of Black Voices for Trump 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Duster noted that the front door to eugenics was effectively closed. Books for our time: seven classics that speak to us now 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “This is eugenics, this is not health care,” Martin said during floor debate. Pennsylvania Senate passes Down syndrome abortion ban bill 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The fable also allowed its audience to avert its eyes from the marginalization of Asian and Latinx labor populations, the racialization of Southern European and Eastern European immigrants, and the rise of eugenics. The Invention of Thanksgiving 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The issue is what would it mean to say that eugenics “works,” which you conveniently have not defined. Richard Dawkins slammed for saying ‘of course’ eugenics would work 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Lombroso’s lurid hypothesis, while always contested, became extraordinarily popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the heyday of eugenics. Can the Shape of Your Face Predict Your Propensity for Violence? 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z And he shows how genetics slides into eugenics. Books for our time: seven classics that speak to us now 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z For much of the last century, a majority of states carried out eugenics laws, resulting in the sterilization of nearly 65,000 Americans, most often women of color. I believe black Americans face a genocide. This is why | Ben Crump 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Hsu counters that his vision is different from eugenics because the choice to edit is made by parents. CRISPR: the movie 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Thomas, for one, has openly compared abortion to eugenics; he has declared that “our abortion jurisprudence has spiraled out of control” and that the undue-burden standard is unconstitutional. Is the Supreme Court’s Fate in Elena Kagan’s Hands? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z He straddled the border between science and literature, but not all his complexities were benign: he both repudiated racism and for some time shamefully ascribed to ideas on eugenics. H. G. Wells, Disney’s pioneering women and an oncologist’s memoir: Books in brief 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Another legacy of the eugenics movement is the management of populations using techniques such as demography, racial classification and statistical modelling. Ethical research — the long and bumpy road from shirked to shared 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z This story of racial eugenics united both conservatives like President Calvin Coolidge and conspiracy theorists like Grant and Stoddard. How to displace the great replacement 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z He is wary of comparisons between his field and the spectre of eugenics, an idea from the beginning of the twentieth century that people seen as having ‘inferior’ genes should be prevented from having children. The promise and peril of the new science of social genomics 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z I'd like to talk specifically about the example of eugenics, because of its moral weight in the public imagination. "Why Trust Science?": Naomi Oreskes on the long struggle for truth, and what went wrong 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Batchelder, quoting a May opinion from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, added that states have a “compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics.” Appeals court blocks ban on abortion after fetal Down syndrome diagnosis 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Later, he coined the term ‘eugenics’ to advocate selective reproduction through application of the breeder’s guiding hand. Ethical research — the long and bumpy road from shirked to shared 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Circuit Judge Alice Batchelder dissented from Friday’s decision, quoting from a May opinion where Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said states have a “compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics.” U.S. appeals court blocks Ohio ban on Down syndrome abortion 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z It was in the seventh issue — 16 December 1869 — that Huxley advanced a scheme for what he called ‘practical Darwinism’ and we call eugenics. How science has shifted our sense of identity 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Particularly, Michael Crichton was a big advocate of the argument that scientists were wrong about eugenics, therefore we should not trust them about climate change. "Why Trust Science?": Naomi Oreskes on the long struggle for truth, and what went wrong 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z We tend to associate eugenics with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, but it was in fact developed in London. In the twisted story of eugenics, the bad guy is all of us | Angela Saini 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z From Latin America and Scandinavia to India, China and the Soviet Union, eugenics took root in projects to ‘improve the population’ throughout the twentieth century. Ethical research — the long and bumpy road from shirked to shared 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z McCain interjected to say that eugenics disproportionately impacts minorities and people with disabilities, but Goldberg said that was beside the point. Meghan McCain claims Bernie Sanders' remarks about population control are an endorsement of eugenics 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Francis Galton — Darwin’s cousin and an outer planet of Huxley’s solar system — was already writing about similar ideas and would come to be known as the father of eugenics. How science has shifted our sense of identity 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Epstein’s interest in science, including eugenics, and in using the scientific community to polish his reputation, has become evident since his death. MIT apologises for accepting $800,000 in donations from Jeffrey Epstein 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The “science” of eugenics was used to justify sterilizing women of color and disabled people for decades. Abortion Bans Based on So-Called "Science" Are Fraudulent 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z In other words, the principles of the eugenics movement are part of contemporary society’s DNA. Ethical research — the long and bumpy road from shirked to shared 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z “There’s this idea coming out of the eugenics movement that nature, purity, conservation were linked to purity of the race,” said Hartmann, the author of “The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War and our Call to Greatness.” Two mass killings a world apart share a common theme: ‘ecofascism’ - The Washington Post 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z By the time Adolf Hitler expanded eugenics to cover entire ethnic and cultural groups, tens of thousands of people worldwide had already been yanked from the gene pool, sterilized, institutionalized, or both. How science has shifted our sense of identity 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z In the nineteen-twenties, as arguments based on eugenics declared the inferiority of Jews, Italians, and other immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, new legislation imposed strict quotas on immigration from those regions. America’s Exclusionary Past and Present and the Judgment of History 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z His interests often veered toward fringe concepts, such as cryonics and transhumanism, which critics have described as modern-day version of eugenics. Director of M.I.T. Media Lab Apologizes for Ties to Jeffrey Epstein 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Darwin’s transformative theory inspired modern biology; Galton’s attempt to equate selection and social reform spawned eugenics. Ethical research — the long and bumpy road from shirked to shared 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Some early conservationists embraced the eugenics movement that saw “social Darwinism” as a way of improving the human race by limiting the birthrates of people considered inferior. Two mass killings a world apart share a common theme: ‘ecofascism’ - The Washington Post 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z The eugenics movement, which assumed mental illness is hereditary, sought to eradicate it by preventing the mentally “unfit” from reproducing. Can Psychiatry Heal Itself? 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z This is no surprise, as Trump a racist who has a lifelong obsession with eugenics. Trump's racist accusations: As usual, he projects his own sins and crimes onto others 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z And each new chapter – now the news of the celebrated scientists he courted to advise him on his bizarre eugenics program – continues to seize and hold our attention. What links a migrant child's tragedy to Jeffrey Epstein's downfall? Donald Trump 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Epstein’s field of study was labeled but was an updated version of eugenics. Epstein reportedly hoped to develop super-race of humans with his DNA 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z One video tried to forestall eugenics accusations, with He rejecting goals such as enhancing intelligence, changing skin color, and increasing sports performance as "not love." The untold story of the ‘circle of trust’ behind the world’s first gene-edited babies 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z In 1933 Nazi Germany cited U.S. policies as justification for its lethal eugenics program. Can Psychiatry Heal Itself? 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z The New York Times reported that Epstein was enthralled by transhumanism: a science of genetic engineering that critics have called a modern-day version of eugenics or controlled breeding. Jeffrey Epstein lured scientists with his wealth in scheme to spread his DNA: report 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Dershowitz said he was appalled, given the Nazis’ use of eugenics to justify their genocidal effort to purify the Aryan race. Jeffrey Epstein, surrounded by scientific luminaries, hoped to seed human race with his DNA 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Okrent delves into the eugenics movement, which brought together misguided scientists and master-race theorists and offered the country’s most powerful men a way to launder their bigotry with faux objectivity. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z In his June 30 op-ed about eugenics and immigration, George F. Will offered an important reminder of the prejudices of earlier times. Opinion | Bigotry against immigrants is not a new phenomenon 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z After World War II, he was criticized by Catholic legal scholars and civil-libertarian liberals who were alarmed to discover his enthusiasm for eugenics, which he displayed in upholding mandatory-sterilization laws. Review | Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and the dangers of moral certainty 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z This timely historical work traces the convergence of two movements just before the First World War: one to restrict immigration and the other to improve the human species through eugenics. Review | How we tell the story of America 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Critics have likened transhumanism to a modern-day version of eugenics, the discredited field of improving the human race through controlled breeding. Jeffrey Epstein, surrounded by scientific luminaries, hoped to seed human race with his DNA 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The nation’s most important periodical, the Saturday Evening Post, devoted tens of thousands of words to the braided crusades for eugenics and race-based immigration policies. Opinion | Last century’s immigration debate makes today’s seem enlightened 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z What is particularly shocking about the eugenics movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s, in retrospect, is that it was championed by so many mainstream and otherwise progressive Americans. Opinion | Bigotry against immigrants is not a new phenomenon 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z She points to shadow financing by the extremist US non-profit Pioneer Fund, which supports studies on eugenics, race and intelligence, and outlets such as the pro-eugenics so-called science journal Mankind Quarterly. Racism in science: the taint that lingers 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Concurring in an abortion case in May, Justice Clarence Thomas penned a lengthy and lurid polemic, warning that abortion rights are a form of racist eugenics revivalism. How Fetal Personhood Emerged as the Next Stage of the Abortion Wars 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z It was the era when eugenics shaped policies towards marriage and immigration, and race science was a legitimate field of inquiry. The Electronic Paternity Test and Other Follies 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z In the opinion, he argued that there was a strong historical connection between abortion and the eugenics movement. Scholars rip apart Clarence Thomas’ new anti-abortion screed: "A gross misuse of historical facts" 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z In it, he likened decisions to abort a fetus because of a diagnosis of Down syndrome or other disability, or because of race or sex, to “modern-day eugenics.” The last time the Supreme Court was invited to overturn Roe v. Wade, a surprising majority was unwilling 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Sanger advocate for some highly distasteful eugenics ideas at times. Clarence Thomas makes it clear: The right is coming for birth control next 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Thomas agreed with the Court’s denial of the petition, but he wrote separately to make clear that laws like Indiana’s “promote a State’s compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics.” How Fetal Personhood Emerged as the Next Stage of the Abortion Wars 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a 20-page statement linking abortion to the eugenics policies popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Supreme Court compromise on Indiana abortion law keeps issue off its docket 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The Washington Post reported that it spoke to seven scholars of the eugenics movement, and none of them believed Thomas got his facts right. Scholars rip apart Clarence Thomas’ new anti-abortion screed: "A gross misuse of historical facts" 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z “Indiana has a compelling interest in attempting to prevent this type of private eugenics,” he wrote. Supreme Court Sidesteps Abortion Question in Ruling on Indiana Law 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z More importantly, Thomas is being disingenuous in his suggestion that Sanger was targeting black people for eugenics purposes when she teamed up with activists like W.E.B. Clarence Thomas makes it clear: The right is coming for birth control next 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z But it is important to understand that the alarm over abortion as eugenics is a decoy of sorts. How Fetal Personhood Emerged as the Next Stage of the Abortion Wars 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Pope Francis last year denounced abortion as the “white glove” equivalent of Nazi-era eugenics programs and urged families “to accept the children that God gives them.” Abortion-rights activists renew battle in Argentina 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Wade decision that first declared abortion rights, wrote a 20-page opinion in which he said the provision promotes “a state’s compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics.” Supreme Court upholds Indiana abortion law on fetal remains 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The Indiana law, Justice Thomas wrote, furthered the state’s “compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics.” Supreme Court Sidesteps Abortion Question in Ruling on Indiana Law 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z This eugenics movement gained superficial plausibility from Charles Darwin’s emphasis on inheritance. Review | When the government used bad science to restrict immigration 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z While the eugenics and abortion movements may have disquieting intersections, the notion that abortion rights are the direct heir to our history of eugenic sterilization is unfounded. How Fetal Personhood Emerged as the Next Stage of the Abortion Wars 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Specifically, he examines the intellectuals and scientists who, through the eugenics movement, offered ballast and respectability to conservative and progressive opponents of immigration alike. A Journalist on How Anti-Immigrant Fervor Built in the Early Twentieth Century 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z In October, a week after Kavanaugh was sworn in, Indiana’s lawyers asked the high court to hear the case and uphold the law, which it described as designed to “put an end to eugenics abortions.” Supreme Court is not eager to overturn Roe vs. Wade — at least not soon 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Such thinking went with the rise in the early 1900s of modern eugenics — the idea that a “race” could and should be purified by selective breeding and the elimination of flawed peoples. A brief history of the enduring phony science that perpetuates white supremacy 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z What finally discredited eugenics in America was less the scientific community — which was slow to publicize sound genetic research — than Adolf Hitler. Review | When the government used bad science to restrict immigration 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z In contrast, those who support neurodiversity see such language as a threat to autistic people’s existence, no different than eugenics. The Concept of Neurodiversity Is Dividing the Autism Community 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The book began as a book about eugenics, and then I discovered the immigration angle and moved it into a book about immigration that was propped up by what I’d just learned about eugenics. A Journalist on How Anti-Immigrant Fervor Built in the Early Twentieth Century 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z While many nations abandoned eugenics laws after the horrors of Nazi Germany, Japan did not repeal its law until 1996. Japan to Compensate Forcibly Sterilized Patients, Decades After the Fact 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Note how there is almost no debate over the ethics and implications of a dawning new age of eugenics, despite scientific advances that threaten to eliminate conditions such as Down’s Syndrome. Greta Thunberg teaches us about autism as much as climate change | Ian Birrell 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z In the same filing, the state’s attorneys said: “Doctors must be viewed as healers, not as enablers and practitioners of eugenics and, more specifically, of overt racial discrimination, gender discrimination, and disability discrimination.” Judge cautions lawyers to watch language in abortion case 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The eugenics movement started in England and the U.S., not in Germany. Sunday Calendar Letters 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z The power of the eugenics movement, the ubiquity of the eugenics movement, in the years from 1910 until 1930, was everywhere. A Journalist on How Anti-Immigrant Fervor Built in the Early Twentieth Century 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Thousands of victims of forced sterilisation in Japan will finally be offered compensation for their suffering under a now-defunct eugenics law. Victims of forced sterilisation in Japan to receive compensation and apology 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Even exported to California, such ideas were tinged with eugenics. How California became a health haven for proto-hippies, 'Sun Seekers' and modernists 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z "Hitler, just like Planned Parenthood, practiced and defended mass extermination," Ingraham added, "all in the name of racial purity, which is exactly what the founder of Planned Parenthood believed. Margaret Sanger believed deeply in eugenics." Gloria Steinem compares pro-lifers to Nazis: Hitler 'campaigned against abortion' 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z America’s love affair with eugenics, the “science” of improving the population by controlled breeding, caught up with the queer community as it had with people of color. When Brooklyn was queer: telling the story of the borough's LGBTQ past 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Right, it was very different, because the ideological line didn’t exist, as you see from the socialists and the progressives who supported immigration restrictions using a eugenics argument. A Journalist on How Anti-Immigrant Fervor Built in the Early Twentieth Century 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The paper said the eugenics law “trampled on the human rights of so many people” and was a “disastrous past policy mistake”. Victims of forced sterilisation in Japan to receive compensation and apology 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Murray has been accused of racism, of making the case for eugenics and a range of other unpleasant charges, and he is routinely no-platformed at universities and in many areas of the media. Sam Harris, the new atheist with a spiritual side 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z By contrast, she emphasizes that activist Margaret Sanger and historian Lothrop Stoddard, through their advocacy of eugenics in the early 20th century, reveal the abuses of so-called intellectual progress. Review | How America learned to think for itself 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z He studied there in the early 1900s, amid the rise of eugenics movements. Opinion | The Family History DNA Can’t Reveal 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Starting around 1913, around the time that the Immigration Restriction League sees the eugenics argument as a worthwhile one, they stop using the race argument. A Journalist on How Anti-Immigrant Fervor Built in the Early Twentieth Century 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Hospital administrators see the clinics as a threat to a coldly scientific eugenics regime. The best Blade Runner anime would have nothing to do with Blade Runner 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z The eugenics movement swept through New Hampshire state institutions beginning in the late 1910s and 1920s, the Division of Historical Resources report said. State School to likely house unmarked graves 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Echoing other scholars and members of the Senate, Ross openly embraced eugenics when discussing the United States’ “immigration problem”. Pittsburgh showed the difference between US and UK antisemitism | Jaclyn Granick and Rebecca Kobrin 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z By the early 20th century, Pocahontas was fully embraced by the growing American eugenics movement. Perspective | How Pocahontas — the myth and the slur — props up white supremacy 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z But the specter of the field’s ignominious past, which includes support for the American eugenics movement, looms large for many geneticists in light of today’s white identity politics. Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed) 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Early US eugenics policies infamously helped to inspire Nazi atrocities. The evolution of music, algorithmic culture, and the cut and thrust of medicine: New in paperback 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z And the cause they embraced, eugenics, was used to justify incarceration, sterilization and even murder. The sordid story of the once-popular eugenics movement 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Worse yet, his understanding of these issues appears to be filtered through the lens of eugenics, a pseudo-science with an unsavory history that looks even more troubling in light of Trump's overt and well-documented racism. Donald Trump’s racist obsessions are the real story — not Elizabeth Warren’s heritage 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Supporters of the eugenics campaign believed that people they deemed genetically “unfit” shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce, according to historians. In removing 'offensive' monuments, California confronts an ugly history and how to reflect it - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z The Smith film, which Smith watches while sorting through Hitler’s collection, is narratively significant because it lets him see Thomas still alive, even though the Nazis killed him in the name of eugenics. Season 3 of The Man in the High Castle goes deep into science fiction 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Crude hereditarianism often re-emerges after major advances in biological knowledge: Darwinism begat eugenics; Mendelism begat worse eugenics. Genetic determinism rides again 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z A dangerous cocktail of pseudoscience and real science set the stage for the eugenics movement’s popularity. The sordid story of the once-popular eugenics movement 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Others argue that biologic concepts of race are inextricably yoked to notions of eugenics, bigotry and burden, and decry their continued presence in medical journals. What Role Should Race Play in Medicine? 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z |
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