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- Eugenics | Center for Genetics and Society
Photo from Belly of the Beast, used by permission Yesterday, California became the third state in the nation to provide reparations to survivors of coerced sterilization under 20 th century eugenics laws, and the first state to both notify and compensate those sterilized involuntarily in state women’s prisons
- Hipster Eugenics: Better Babies for Billionaires
He insists that “eugenics does not commit us to endorsing state-sponsored coercion” – Simone Collins might learn from his approach The idea of world-changing technologies has attracted some increasingly serious investments into genome analysis and what The Economist characterized as “ the fountain of youth ,” when Altos Labs raised
- What’s the difference between genetic engineering and eugenics?
However, the research is still very young, and there are major ethical questions attached to editing human DNA that the emergence of CRISPR makes even more pressing: Wouldn’t editing out inheritable traits from the human population simply amount to eugenics
- Eugenics today: where eugenic sterilisation continues now
Once the rest of the world recognised this, eugenics was done – not simply as a social movement with state support, but as an endorsable idea guiding social policy But this view doesn’t capture what eugenics feels like from where I have stood for the past 20 years For most of the past two decades, I have lived in the Canadian province
- Disability Rights, Triage and Countering Eugenics in a Time of Pandemic
Justifying eugenics as necessary because of "cold equations" is still eugenics George Annas is a Distinguished Professor of Health Law, Ethics Human Rights at Boston University, and co-founder of Global Lawyers Physicians, an NGO dedicated to promoting health and human rights
- Future Past: Disability, Eugenics, and Brave New Worlds
The Consequences of Misremembering Eugenics [Watch a video recording of Panel 2 here ] Building on the morning panel, conversation will turn to the underlying social and cultural dynamics that motivate eugenic ideas and practices of the past and present, and to the resistance to them
- Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back
A review of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, by Adam Becker
- This May Be The Most Horrible Thing That Donald Trump Believes
The Frontline documentary “The Choice,” which premiered this week on PBS, reveals that Trump agrees with the dangerous and abusive theory of eugenics Trump’s father instilled in him the idea that their family’s success was genetic, according to Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio
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