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
But every utopian eugenic impulse has been countered by fierce dystopian skepticism.
From Slate • Apr. 25, 2020
“For those determined to miss the point, I deplore the idea of a eugenic policy,” he wrote.
From Washington Times • Feb. 17, 2020
“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
For a while, it seemed as if the future of eugenic sterilizations in America depended on the foggy impressions of a nurse who had been handed a cranky baby without toys.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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