A biology professor at Gettysburg College referred to President Trump as a 'eugenicist' on a quiz administered to students, according to a screenshot obtained by Young America’s Foundation through its ...

On Friday, the University of Virginia will consider changing the name of a School of Medicine wing that currently honors a eugenicist who believed that slavery benefited African Americans. Paul ...

Eugenics has always been about promoting desired utilitarian outcomes. The old eugenics wanted to improve the human herd through the crude manipulation of who could and should be parents. And, it also ...

More than one year ago, Planned Parenthood disavowed its co-founder Margaret Sanger over her racist and eugenicist views, saying it will "no longer make excuses or apologize" for her influence on ...

The French have a word for it: débaptiser. A prominent French scientist, Alexis Carrel (1878-1944) won the Nobel Prize for his inventions. His work saved military and civilian lives during both world ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The eugenicists of the early 20th century used medical violence like forced ...

David Starr Jordan served as Indiana University’s seventh president. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) What New York native received both medical and doctorate degrees in Indianapolis, helped to ...

A British academic has claimed that she was secretly paid to have children as part of a eugenicist scheme while working at the London School of Economics in the early 1960s. Professor Hilary Rose, 84, ...

I am all for the advocacy that a single Change.org petition can invoke. Go ahead, call me an advocacy advocate because every other insult geared toward my leftist, outspoken, collegiate writer status ...

It's hard to shake the feeling that eugenics can make a comeback. Or that it never really left us. When Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave a recent interview to Elle, she let slip a ...

Today Daniel Kevles, a Yale historian, has an interesting review in the New York Times of a new book about eugenics. The book in question is War against the Weak, by Edward Black. It’s a cinderblock ...

A biology professor at Gettysburg College referred to President Trump as a ‘eugenicist’ on a quiz administered to students, according to a screenshot obtained by Young America’s Foundation through its ...