He became so detested because of his eugenics theories and his obsession with eugenics theories.
How do we know that the bad old days of eugenics are truly over?
The Carnegie Institution and Rockefeller Foundation supported eugenics programmes in Germany into the 1930s, for example.
This would be modern eugenics, albeit with the individual, rather than the state, making the choices.
Whenever biology meets behaviour the spectre of social Darwinism and eugenics looms menacingly in the background.
Buying into the Internet and artificial intelligence means also buying into nuclear meltdowns, eugenics, and global warming.
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He also dismisses the notion that sex selection would lead to a more sinister form of eugenics.
They went back to the Pauper Pedigree Project of the Eugenics Society, which ran from 1910 to 1933.
Abortion, widely supported by libertarians and political liberals, is a form of eugenics.
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When the science of eugenics has been more fully developed, there may be a hope on those lines of really bettering humanity.
In another, it will bring to mind such controversial issues as abortion, genetically modified foodstuffs, and the sinister subject of eugenics.
She claimed that Israel's world class prenatal medicine is a product of its embrace of eugenics and its similarity to Nazi Germany.
The occasions on which both conditions are met are so rare that only one example from the last century comes to mind: eugenics.
The Minnesota research is financed by the Pioneer Fund, a foundation set up in 1937 to help research into heredity and eugenics, including racial differences.
But he also managed to alienate many of his coworkers and later went on to be a proponent of ugly ideas about race, intelligence and eugenics.
Support for eugenics was one of the few things that people across political lines in the early 20th Century would agree on, from socialists like H.
Last Friday, the great blogger Matt Novak (who you should read often) uncovered evidence that Nikola Tesla, writing in 1935, had expressed his support for Eugenics.
Invoking the specter of eugenics, as CGS does, is unpersuasive.
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Craniology, phrenology and eugenics, once-respectable fields of endeavour that are now regarded with a shudder, may shriek from time to time, but few sane people pay attention to them.
It took the Holocaust to force American academics to desert their support for eugenics and American financiers to stop endowing professorships and underwriting conferences in the "scientific" quackery they propounded.
We prefer to avoid awkward scientific findings on the biology of violence that question our concepts of free will and punishment and harken back to the bad old days of eugenics and brain lobectomies.
The last century showed us what the once popular, seemingly scientific idea of eugenics--the belief that we could improve human beings the way we improve animals and plants through selective breeding, planting and culling--led to.
They do not care that by arguing for a complete halt in "natural" growth, they are effectively adopting a eugenics argument the likes of which no US policy-maker has dared to advance since before the Holocaust.
If we were to promote a minimal biological baseline for the healthy brain development of every child in society to reduce the likelihood of future violence of the type we saw at Sandy Hook Elementary School, is that really eugenics?
In the first half of the 20th century many educated people believed in eugenics--the theory that human beings could be improved if "inferior" people with low IQs were forcibly sterilized (or, in the case of the Nazis, exterminated).
Eugenics, the pseudo-science of racial pecking orders, was so much the rage in academic circles from the late 19th century through the 1930s that even a towering liberal figure like Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes believed in it.
The problem with eugenics, which may or may not have any firm basis in reality, is that you almost cannot mention the word eugenics without mentioning the word Nazi in the next sentence because it was the basis for the Nazi's program.
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