Feb 28, 2021 · Photo from Belly of the Beast, used by permission. Yesterday, California became the third state in the nation to provide reparations to survivors of coerced sterilization under 20 th century eugenics laws, and the first state to both notify and compensate those sterilized involuntarily in state women’s prisons.

Feb 22, 2016 · However, the research is still very young, and there are major ethical questions attached to editing human DNA that the emergence of CRISPR makes even more pressing: Wouldn’t editing out inheritable traits from the human population simply amount to eugenics...

Elon Musk has been warning about population decline and smaller families for years. In his 2015 biography, he’s quoted as saying, “if each successive generation of smart people has fewer kids, that’s probably bad.”

Eugenics is widely regarded as a debunked pseudoscience—developed and promoted mostly in Nazi Germany—that fell off the political radar after the horrors of the Holocaust were revealed. In fact, twentieth century eugenics represented the mainstream science of its day and was championed by prominent figures and popular movements across the ...

Once the rest of the world recognised this, eugenics was done – not simply as a social movement with state support, but as an endorsable idea guiding social policy. But this view doesn’t capture what eugenics feels like from where I have stood for the past 20 years. For most of the past two decades, I have lived in the Canadian province...

Nov 30, 2022 · He insists that “eugenics does not commit us to endorsing state-sponsored coercion” – Simone Collins might learn from his approach. The idea of world-changing technologies has attracted some increasingly serious investments into genome analysis and what The Economist characterized as “ the fountain of youth ,” when Altos Labs raised ...

Aug 18, 2023 · The Smithsonian has formed a task for. The Smithsonian has formed a task force to address the massive collection of human remains held by its museums, which includes 255 human brains that were removed primarily from dead Black and Indigenous people, as well as other people of color, without the consent or knowledge of their families.

Jun 8, 2022 · The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America . By Linda Villarosa, The New York Times Magazine | 06. 08. 2022.

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Oct 28, 2020 · The existence of the conference was surprising, but the choice of location was not. UCL was an epicenter of the early 20th-century eugenics movement—a precursor to Nazi “racial hygiene” programs—due to its ties to Francis Galton, the father of eugenics, and his intellectual descendants and fellow eugenicists Karl Pearson and Ronald Fisher.