The Eugenics Record Office thought pseudoscience could make more perfect humans. It led to unspeakable tragedy.
Eugenics fell out of intellectual favor because it became identified with Nazi policies. But it has come out of the shadows ...
NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Contents Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Ideology, tools, and perspective -- What is eugenics? -- Fear of the "other" -- The ...
The U.S. biotech company Nucleus Genomics has announced new in vitro fertilization (IVF) software that allows couples to choose which of up to 20 embryos to implant into the woman’s uterus by looking ...
The Rockefeller Foundation did support eugenics research in the early 1900s. However, it played no part in founding the World Health Organization. On May 2, 2024, the X (formerly Twitter) account ...
In the world of pseudo-science, eugenics holds a dark position in history thanks to its being a social philosophy based on improving society via the manipulation of a population’s genetic stock. Its ...
ROCHESTER — Drs. William and Charles Mayo are known as medicine’s dynamic duo, talented surgeons and founders of Mayo Clinic who turned a small rural town into a worldwide medical mecca. But the ...
Trump announced within the first ten minutes of the conference that the National Institutes of Health, “to help reach the ...
Psychiatry’s system of involuntary commitment is recycling discredited eugenics-era policies—using vague labels and coercive ...
My wife brought up an interesting paper the other day about how they might soon be able to "fix"/prevent Down Syndrome using CRISPR. To her, this is a travesty. She is a special education teacher and ...