eugenics
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It amounts to the same thing as eugenics.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2026
Schottenstein, an Orthodox Jew, was perplexed at the criticism that the campaign smacked of eugenics, the Nazi-embraced theory that selective reproduction can advance the human race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
Some critics interpreted the ads as a play on eugenics, the discredited belief that humanity could be improved through selective breeding.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2025
Quilligan continues to be taught in universities and retold in academic books as a cautionary tale of eugenics and public health gone wrong, its plaintiffs hailed as reproductive-rights heroines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2024
In the last years of his life, Galton wrestled with the idea of negative eugenics.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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