eugenic

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“I didn't realize the extent to which a number of the past presidents and people who have been very well-respected in terms of their contributions to human genetics… believed in this eugenic ideology,” Tishkoff says.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 24, 2023

“For those determined to miss the point, I deplore the idea of a eugenic policy,” he wrote.

From Washington Times • Feb. 17, 2020

Here’s today’s selection: In 2001, three years before Facebook, David Plotz used the Internet’s reach to solicit, find, and tell the stories of families who had produced children through a eugenic sperm bank.

From Slate • Dec. 27, 2017

“In all the years I knew him, he never talked about any eugenic or racial superiority,” said Jones. “He never even talked about a person’s race or their religion.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2016

What Priddy needed was a blanket legal order that would authorize him to sterilize a woman on explicitly eugenic grounds; one such test case would set the standard for a thousand.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee