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eugenics

[yoo-jen-iks] / yuˈdʒɛn ɪks /


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Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025

Eugenics was a big thing in the first three decades of the 20th century, and also in the first three decades of the 20th century, more women were going to university and becoming professional women.

From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2023

Genetic augmentation was banned in the 21st century following Earth's Eugenics Wars, instigated by human scientists engineering superior human beings who ended up conquering mankind.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2023

It was suspected that they originated from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, which stood on the site from 1927 to 1945.

From Reuters • Mar. 23, 2023

On July 24, 1912, one year after Galton's death, the first International Conference on Eugenics opened at the Cecil Hotel in London.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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