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Bookmark or Share- Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics backElon Musk has been warning about population decline and smaller families for years. In his 2015 biography, he’s quoted as saying, “if each successive generation of smart people has fewer kids, that’s probably bad.”
- Eugenics | Center for Genetics and SocietyPhoto 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.
- Challenging the Legacies of Eugenics in Science, Medicine, and ...Early 20th-century eugenic beliefs were central to the mainstream science and medicine of the day, and eugenic ideas have been “baked in” to some of these fields’ foundational principles. As Obasogie states: Since the end of World War II, eugenics has simultaneously hidden in the shadows and festered in the sunlight.
- Future Past: Disability, Eugenics, and Brave New WorldsBut too few are aware that Nazi eugenics had deep roots in the United States and Canada, especially in the North American West. Some 60,000 explicitly eugenic sterilization procedures, fully endorsed by state laws, were performed across the United States between 1909 and the 1970s; of these about 20,000 took place in California.
- Polygenic Traits, Human Embryos, and Eugenic DreamsThis should certainly include discussion of the consequences of attempting heritable human genome modification. Such eugenic pipe-dreams are likely to have tragic consequences on an individual level, and their commercial exploitation is not only an ethical disaster but odds-on to have significant and unwelcome societal effects.
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