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- Eugenics - Center for Genetics and Society
Eugenics refers to beliefs and practices aimed at controlling reproduction in order to “improve” the characteristics of human populations In the early 20th century, eugenic beliefs were intertwined with the developing science of genetics These ideas were popular across the political spectrum in many countries, providing scientific cover for practices and policies targeting society’s
- Hipster Eugenics: Better Babies for Billionaires
The techno-utopian credos known as “effective altruism” and “longtermism” have recently gained wide notice, judging by Google searches, news articles, and personal experience Far less attention has been paid to “hipster eugenics,” a term that brutally but accurately sums up the alarming trend previously known by the perhaps more anodyne “designer babies ” All are closely
- 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
- Disability Rights, Triage and Countering Eugenics in a Time of Pandemic
Reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrate that activism can help to counter eugenic thinking, and the importance of the disability rights community to this effort
- Eugenics today: where eugenic sterilisation continues now
Eugenics was a mixture of science andEugenics was a mixture of science and social movement that aimed to improve the human race over generations Those of good stock were to produce more children, and those of bad stock were to produce fewer (or no) children The English polymath Francis Galton coined the term ‘eugenics’ in his Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development (1883), and
- Future Past: Disability, Eugenics, and Brave New Worlds
In the art world, how can performance and other artistic efforts reach broader publics with deeper understandings and emotional appreciation of the injustices and dangers of eugenics past, present and future? What forms of activism are already pushing back against the new eugenics and how might advocates benefit from academic partnerships?
- Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back
as saying, “if each successive generation of smart people has fewer kids, that’s probably bad ” Musk is explicit that “smart” people need to be having more kids — he has nine living children, that we know of — but doesn’t go so far as to say that other people should be having fewer After all, he does want the population to grow One of the problems with his narrative is that
- 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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