Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Shots puts an amusing spin on the little-known history of eugenics. It traces the genocidal, anti-ethnic eugenics movement which resulted in the sterilization and elimination of millions. It exposes ...

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 ...

The study of eugenics wasn’t born on Long Island — it’s closer to say it went through puberty there. The idea of eugenics — a pseudoscience that promoted the idea that certain people or groups should ...

Several decades before Adolf Hitler and the Nazis took the notion of “purifying” society to genocidal extremes in the Holocaust, the ideas behind it were enthusiastically embraced in Vermont. Eugenics ...

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 ...

Theodore Dru Alison “Theo” Cockerell was one of the early 20th-century’s best-known entomologists. Widely considered the foremost expert on bees, he was a prolific writer and researcher, and professor ...

According to students and professors, the mark of eugenics has not left campus — and has instead manifested itself into Yale’s curriculum. Many of the names inscribed on science classroom slides, ...

Content warning for graphic discrimination and persecution of marginalized identities. Professor and emergency physician Craig Spencer gave a talk about the lasting and disturbing legacy of eugenics ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, NYC, 1922. The American Eugenics Society ...