eugenics

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In spring 2021, the Legislature apologized to all Vermonters and their families and descendants who were harmed by state-sanctioned eugenics policies and practices that led to sterilizations.

From Seattle Times

“Names of pet animals are discouraged,” the guidelines note, and historical figures associated with “the slave trade, genocide or eugenics” are not acceptable.

From New York Times

And the California Institute of Technology said it would rename buildings and locations that honored followers of the eugenics movement, a form of pseudoscientific racism.

From Washington Post

It wasn’t until the early 1990s that the society formally opposed eugenics theories.

From Science Magazine

In the wake of World War II, Germany’s use of eugenics to forcibly sterilize hundreds of thousands and murder millions had dampened American public and scientific interest in the movement.

From Washington Post