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In 1883 a British biologist named Francis Galton combined the roots of the Greek words for "good" and "origin" to create the term "eugenics" for an applied science based on genetics and breeding. The ...

They started swarming across America’s border, millions of desperate families fleeing poverty or seeking political asylum. But many people were repelled by their presence. Some warned that the country ...

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To encourage scientists to speak up when people misuse science to serve political agendas, biology professor Mark Peifer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argues that eugenics should ...

Orlice “Lisa” Hodges clutches an educational brochure about North Carolinas’ eugenics program on August 5, 2021, in Raleigh. As a young woman, Hodges was told by relatives that her aunt was “fixed”- a ...

The U.S. participation in eugenics – the pseudoscientific field predicated on the belief that humanity’s gene pool can be improved through selective breeding – remains opaque almost 100 years after ...

New ways of using your genetic data could bolster scientific racism and encourage discrimination. Want to predict aggression? Neuroticism? Risk aversion? Authoritarianism? Academic achievement? This ...