• Second International Congress of Eugenics. (blogspot.com)
  • At the the Second International Congress of Eugenics, titled Eugenics, Genetics, and the Family in 1923, papers included Pedigrees of Pauper Stocks" in England, "Individual and Racial Inheritance of Musical Traits" or "Heritable Factors in Human Fitness and Their Social Control. (skepticalob.com)
  • The discovery of genes - effectively in 1900, when Gregor Mendel's work was disinterred - made the selective breeding of people much harder than Francis Galton, the founder of eugenics, had expected. (mattridley.co.uk)
  • UCL was an epicenter of the early 20th-century eugenics movement-a precursor to Nazi "racial hygiene" programs-due to its ties to Francis Galton, the father of eugenics, and his intellectual descendants and fellow eugenicists Karl Pearson and Ronald Fisher. (nautil.us)
  • Karl Pearson (left) referred to eugenics as "the directed and self-conscious evolution of the human race," which he said Francis Galton (right) had understood "with the enthusiasm of a prophet. (nautil.us)
  • The most notorious example is "eugenics" - a term coined by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin . (wn.com)
  • The word "eugenics" was coined by Charles Darwin 's cousin, Francis Galton, in 1883, although the idea was popularized earlier in his 1869 book "Hereditary Genius . (wn.com)
  • A DANGEROUS IDEA: EUGENICS, GENETICS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM reveals how this dangerous idea gained new traction in the 20th century with an increasing belief in the concept of an all-powerful "gene" that predetermines who is worthy and who is not. (bullfrogfilms.com)
  • Last year, Harvard released a report detailing its extensive ties to the history of slavery , including the ways in which Harvard scholars and leaders in the 19th and 20th century "promoted 'race science' and eugenics and conducted abusive 'research,'" the report said. (thecrimson.com)
  • Gregor Mendel's famous laws of genetics had just been rediscovered at the turn of the century , giving rise to a field rich with untold truths about the nature of life. (cshl.edu)
  • According to Time , as far back as the 1920s, the public has wondered about genetics (albeit from a eugenics standpoint). (grunge.com)
  • His teaching included his version of eugenics, which "sought to prevent the decay of the Anglo-Saxon/Nordic race by limiting racial mixing and by preventing the reproduction of those he deemed unfit. (wikipedia.org)
  • So-called positive eugenics meant encouraging those of greater intellectual ability and "moral worth" to have more children, while negative eugenics sought to urge, or even force, those deemed inferior to reproduce less often or not at all. (blogspot.com)
  • For Price, this meant writing at the height of the American eugenics movement, which sought to control the reproductive rights of persons deemed "unfit to breed"[11] and to encourage the reproduction of persons deemed genetically superior. (doctorwhimsy.com)
  • The second reason we need not fear a return of eugenics is that we now know from 40 years of experience that without coercion there is little or no demand for genetic enhancement. (mattridley.co.uk)
  • Third, eugenics, far from being inspired by genetic knowledge, has been confounded by it. (mattridley.co.uk)
  • In this episode of Base Pairs , David Micklos , executive director of CSHL's DNA Learning Center and leader of the effort to create an extensive online Eugenics Archive , and Miriam Rich , a doctoral student at Harvard studying the social and cultural history of science and medicine, help us figure out where genetic science went off the rails in the name of eugenics. (cshl.edu)
  • It reads: "Some experts have warned that unregulated genetic engineering may lead to a new form of eugenics, in which people with means to pay have children with enhanced traits even as those with disabilities are devalued. (cshl.edu)
  • Here, Alton chronicles valid concerns of genetic screening and 'domestic eugenics' alongside those of GM foods and xenotransplants. (faith.org.uk)
  • Supersoldiers are usually heavily augmented, either through eugenics (especially selective breeding), genetic engineering, cybernetic implants, drugs, brainwashing, traumatic events, an extreme training regimen (usually with high casualty rates, and often starting from birth or a young age), or other scientific and pseudoscientific means. (abovetopsecret.com)
  • In fact, I think it's safe to say that the only contribution evolution has made to modern medicine is to take it down the horrific road of eugenics, which brought forced sterilization and bodily harm to many thousands of Americans in the early 1900s. (evolutionnews.org)
  • and it was from California that Ernst RĂ¼din of the German Society of Racial Hygiene took his model when he was appointed Reichskommissar for eugenics by the incoming National Socialist government in 1933. (mattridley.co.uk)
  • It is associated with other ideas including eugenics - often euphemistically referred to as 'human biodiversity' in recent years - that attempt to tie racial superiority to science. (vdare.com)
  • Statistical thinking and eugenicist thinking are, in fact, deeply intertwined, and many of the theoretical problems with methods like significance testing-first developed to identify racial differences-are remnants of their original purpose, to support eugenics. (nautil.us)
  • Ideas such as these were at the core of the American eugenics movement, in which science got mixed up with racial dogma. (cshl.edu)
  • But the ugliest chapter in the progressive-fascist alliance centered on eugenics, the pseudo-science of racial purification. (freerepublic.com)
  • That, too, is fitting: Epstein, as it turned out, had been cultivating conflicting understandings of science for a long time through his donations to research institutions and the lasting friendships he formed with legitimate, renowned scientists. (thenation.com)
  • Featuring interviews with social thinkers including Van Jones and Robert Reich as well as prominent scientists in many fields, A DANGEROUS IDEA is a radical reassessment of the meaning, use and misuse of gene science. (bullfrogfilms.com)
  • Yes, there are some findings in the survey likely to give science types heartburn: 60% of Evangelicals believe that scientists should be willing to consider miracles as possible explanations for the phenomena they study, as do 38% of all Americans. (time.com)
  • Her 2010 book Merchants of Doubt , cowritten with Erik M. Conway, introduced readers to the means by which a small group of scientists, allied with industry and the right, generated doubt about "inconvenient truths" from acid rain to global warming. (princeton.edu)
  • The creators of such programs are viewed often as mad scientists or stern military men, depending on the emphasis, as their programs will typically go past ethical boundaries in the pursuit of science and/or military might. (abovetopsecret.com)
  • Belief in the philosophy also requires one to endorse the mass killing of millions of innocent people, which the study's author says is driven "by the highest echelons of science, industry and public administration for the geopolitical objectives of international cohabitation, preservation of resources, environmental conservation and decarbonization, all of which hinge on depopulation. (naturalnews.com)
  • BS: Eugenics was an idea in which issues of science and society got mixed up in horrific ways. (cshl.edu)
  • In my world in the trenches of COVID, a world enlightened by true science and humanism, a world bathed by an understanding of the rhythms of history that demonstrate how people have been manipulated into carrying out horrific acts by feeding them simplistic dogma, it's the super-villains who wear masks. (andylazris.com)
  • The 'Frankenfoods' hype of the popular press only serves as a hypocritical distraction to the real sins of science: the diabolical manipulation of embryonic human life in hospitals and IVF clinics across the nation. (faith.org.uk)
  • Most Americans have never even heard of Barack Obama's top science advisor. (thetruthwins.com)
  • According to the Rice results, almost 50% of Evangelicals believe that science and religion can work together, a figure that actually exceeds the 38% of all Americans who believe the same thing. (time.com)
  • Hence the enthusiasm of John Maynard Keynes, director of the Eugenics Society from 1937 to 1944, for contraception, essential because the working class was too "drunken and ignorant" to keep its numbers down. (blogspot.com)
  • Alton analyses the aggressive policies on abortion, contraception, euthanasia, human cloning, eugenics, and population control of our own Government with the skill and experience of an accomplished statesman. (faith.org.uk)
  • Examines the history of the US eugenics movement and its recent resurrection, which uses false scientific claims and holds that an all-powerful "gene" determines who is worthy and who is not. (bullfrogfilms.com)
  • The never-ending challenge with eugenics is making that abhorrent history relevant to a contemporary audience. (bullfrogfilms.com)
  • It's a reassuring truth of human history that wisdom is eternal. (time.com)
  • I wanted to read a passage from this today because - with this specific project being as banned as it is - I feel like it's very reflective of a hesitance from legislators to allow our children to know the truth and to defend our history in a way that is reflective of how we, as a country, were born," said Norman, a Crimson Magazine editor. (thecrimson.com)
  • These and other people who have in their hands the present and future of our world, are the cabal responsible for hiding the truth about history that most of us don't know. (real-agenda.com)
  • Socialism's one-time interest in eugenics is dismissed as an accident of history. (blogspot.com)
  • Though she remains my favorite young person simply because of her guts, Greta Thunberg urges us to 'unite behind the science', which also bears a too close resemblance to such calls that hauntingly echo down the unkempt corridors of recent history. (gvloewen.ca)
  • The history of science says no. (consider.org)
  • At the time of publication of Price's most famous work, Nutritional and Physical Degeneration, eugenics as a movement had already shaped public policies in the United States, leading to tens of thousands of forced sterilizations and dramatic restrictions in existing immigration laws. (doctorwhimsy.com)
  • Dr. Wiker continues his refutation of historical revisionists' efforts to obfuscate or separate the hateful ideas of the eugenics movement rooted in virulent racism from Darwin's purely scientific ideas of evolution: "Attempts to disengage Darwin from the eugenics movement date from a bit after World War II, when Hitler gave a bad name to survival of the fittest as applied to human beings. (wnd.com)
  • It is up to us spread the truth, until the day abortion is unthinkable for everyone. (marchforlife.org)
  • So I don't think correcting those defects through medical science in advance of the resurrection is problematic. (blogspot.com)
  • The science, as an increasing number of people are admitting, is indisputable. (vdare.com)
  • After all, many people were "outraged" by a scientific theory which they thought denied the truth of Scripture. (vdare.com)
  • AA: But importantly, like you said, the judgement of good versus bad comes from people-in other words, society-but not the science itself. (cshl.edu)
  • AA: Until relatively recently, I honestly had no idea that there was a eugenics movement in the United States early in the 1900s, much less that as a result of this movement, the government forced thousands of people to undergo surgery that destroyed their ability to have children. (cshl.edu)
  • The hard fact is, there are plenty of people-the majority of people, in fact-who can comfortably live in a world in which faith and science live side by side. (time.com)
  • It was Carl Sagan himself who once wondered why a God who presides over a universe in which evolution unfolds, in which physical sciences play out and in which great truths are slowly discovered by people with dawning wisdom, isn't somehow a subtler, more nuanced and more appealing God. (time.com)
  • And as an aside, people tend to be quite astonished to learn about the great respect the Church has for science: the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Science has many Nobel prizewinners! (celestialnavigation.net)
  • Guy: You have to understand that the people who are generating the war between science and religion are trying to sell you something. (celestialnavigation.net)
  • Religious people who have no training in science are just as embarrassing when they try to talk about science. (celestialnavigation.net)
  • The irony is that the vast majority of religious people are not the fundamentalists - they are happy with science and embrace it. (celestialnavigation.net)
  • It began to be clear that were a lot of people in the United States, and in some other parts of the world as well, who were not shills for ExxonMobil or the meat industry, people who did not necessarily own stock in Chevron or Texaco or Saudi Aramco or Peabody Coal, and yet who were, for whatever reasons, somewhat skeptical or suspicious of science. (princeton.edu)
  • Indeed, the fact that most public voices critical of climate science and the environmental movement are people stumping for a moribund politics makes the climate-saving forces shine all the more brightly. (gvloewen.ca)
  • So in other words, in order to fight back against something that the science community has yet to officially acknowledge actually exists, people should stop having babies, get rid of their cars, never step foot on an airplane again, and eat fruits and vegetables for the rest of their lives. (eugenics.news)
  • Science, regardless of its benefits as a method to learn about the natural world, is governed by people. (consider.org)
  • The truth is that they are convinced that climate change is going to literally destroy the earth and that the best way to fight climate change is to get rid of a whole bunch of us. (thetruthwins.com)
  • Merchants of Doubt," ideology-based interest groups that claim expertise on scientific issues, have run successful "disinformation campaigns" in which they highlight the inherent uncertainty of science to cast doubt on scientific issues such as human-caused climate change, even though the scientific community has reached virtual consensus that humans play a role in climate change. (wikipedia.org)
  • Both mainstream climatologists and their critics have accused each other of politicizing the science behind climate change. (wikipedia.org)
  • The flat-earthers have always been with us, as have the believers in phrenology and alchemy and eugenics and sorcery, and, more recently and perniciously, the climate change deniers and the vaccines-cause-autism ninnies. (time.com)
  • Climate science is supported by about 97 percent of peer reviewed publications inside its broad field. (gvloewen.ca)
  • Today, those who resist the climate change science tend to demonize themselves. (gvloewen.ca)
  • On the one hand, public resistance to climate science is seen as a form of ignorance of enlightened empirical discourse, just as were those who resisted eugenics, including the 'lower forms' which were the results of such ignorance. (gvloewen.ca)
  • At the end of the day, truth has always been the antidote to oppression. (thecrimson.com)
  • This oppression from the Swedish state has been ongoing for centuries, and these issues were discussed in S mi Blood , especially commenting eugenics and what this oppression did to the individual. (lu.se)
  • I've written books and songs and blogs, I've protested all I could, but who am I-a real doctor who reads facts and is on the front lines of COVID-compared to the architects of the new American "science" who prognosticate and plot from their basement rooms. (andylazris.com)
  • We could respond to all this the way we react when reading of Churchill's dismissal of Gandhi as a "half-naked fakir" or indeed of his own attraction to eugenics, by saying it was all a long time ago, when different norms applied. (blogspot.com)
  • Incredibly, and quite dishonestly, they link human biodiversity to eugenics . (vdare.com)
  • Based on her Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered at Princeton University, the book explores the pursuit of scientific knowledge and consensus across the 20th and 21st centuries, the changing conception of science from an individual to a social pursuit, and the reasons for and responses to science going awry. (princeton.edu)
  • The facts of eugenics stated that miscegenation would destroy the human race. (gvloewen.ca)
  • In the opening chapter on Darwin, Wiker wrote: "Reading Charles Darwin's 'The Descent of Man' forces one to face an unpleasant truth: that if everything he said in his more famous 'Origin of Species' is true, then it quite logically follows that human beings ought to ensure that the fit breed with abandon and that the unfit are weeded out. (wnd.com)
  • Eugenics rested on the bedrock assumption that white Anglo-Saxon Protestant elites represent the apogee of human evolution. (skepticalob.com)
  • As we are a modern society, not some primitive tribe, we look at scientific evidence to determine truth, we don't just work backwards from our feelings and demand the world conform to our wishes. (vdare.com)
  • The Torah's objective morality - which is the only morality that doesn't inevitably lead to tyranny - is predicated on the fundamental truth that God created the world and is the Master of all life. (frontpagemag.com)
  • There was truth and untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. (andylazris.com)
  • After similar outcries about eugenics, the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies renamed its annual Fisher Lecture, and the Society for the Study of Evolution did the same for its Fisher Prize. (nautil.us)
  • That answer won't win the 'Alliance for Science' prize. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Today we have an entire field called "medical ethics", which tends to be little more than a sanitized term for eugenics. (frontpagemag.com)
  • He failed to achieve it not because the science of his day didn't support it but rather because his idea of ethics was hopelessly narrow. (gvloewen.ca)
  • Once again, at the time, the science of these propositions went unquestioned even in serious circles and the ethics was left to be dragged along behind it. (gvloewen.ca)
  • It's the idea that government intervention in the marketplace is bad, free markets are good, and therefore any science that would imply the need for government regulation of the marketplace should be heavily scrutinized if not rejected altogether. (princeton.edu)
  • On the other hand, a certain opposition to science has been seen among believers from various religions for ethical reasons as well as for a kind of fear produced when scientific advances are perceived as opposed to one's religious beliefs. (celestialnavigation.net)
  • Epstein's stay at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center and his death on Saturday will breed multiple versions of the truth, and conflicting interpretations of scientific evidence. (thenation.com)
  • The scientific method is radically inclusive, giving everyone the ability to discover truth. (marchforlife.org)
  • The politicization of science for political gain occurs when government, business, or advocacy groups use legal or economic pressure to influence the findings of scientific research or the way it is disseminated, reported or interpreted. (wikipedia.org)
  • The politicization of science may also negatively affect academic and scientific freedom, and as a result it is considered taboo to mix politics with science. (wikipedia.org)
  • While Makman comes from the humanities division, and Miller from natural sciences, in today's lecture, Miller places the scientific terminology that appears in the story into a humanities context: "Ether," for example, is a class of organic compounds. (umich.edu)
  • That book, and the 2014 documentary film it inspired, revealed public conflicts over scientific "truth" to be the result of finely crafted public-relations campaigns. (princeton.edu)
  • reports from eminent scientific organizations like the Royal Society-that if there was a robust body of knowledge of that sort, then we, as the authors of the book, didn't really have to question or doubt or defend that science. (princeton.edu)
  • Eugenics was considered a serious department of scientific discourse worldwide during much of the first half of the twentieth century and beforehand. (gvloewen.ca)
  • According to Dennis Sewell, whose book The Political Gene charts the impact of Darwinian ideas on politics, the eugenics movement's definition of "unfit" was not limited to the physically or mentally impaired. (blogspot.com)
  • Our 2019 March for Life theme is ' Unique from Day One: Pro-life is Pro-science . (marchforlife.org)
  • His journey to expose the truth resulted in him being arrested seven times, placed behind bars, and being "forcibly separated" from his wife and children for four years. (naturalnews.com)
  • But it is impossible to distance Darwin from eugenics: It's a straight logical shot from his evolutionary arguments. (wnd.com)
  • I have been at UCL since 1964, and in all that time I have never once heard anyone with an "ambivalent" attitude to eugenics. (dcscience.net)
  • The infamous words of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., writing for the majority at the time, affirmed that eugenics was alive and well in America when he declared that "three generations of imbeciles are enough. (naturalnews.com)
  • I do use many kinds of science related to changes in organisms over time. (evolutionnews.org)
  • When was the last time you heard a politician throw out numbers and describe science and tech like that? (umich.edu)
  • Esteemed reader, you are about to learn the truth of the long-standing love affair between American progressivism and European fascism. (freerepublic.com)
  • A few years later in 1934 the American Eugenics Society published the Case for Sterilization, a book that piqued the interest of the Fuhrer himself. (freerepublic.com)
  • One leading member of the American Eugenics Society was Margaret Sanger. (freerepublic.com)
  • Live Science reports that CRISPR technology was derived from the defense system of bacteria and a single-celled organism called archaea. (grunge.com)
  • I'll be in Washington, D.C. to support the pro-life, pro-science message on January 18th. (marchforlife.org)
  • The National Socialist Democratic Action Party harnessed a respected body of work that in turn had the direct support of much of the applied science community, especially physicians. (gvloewen.ca)
  • First, the essence of eugenics was compulsion: it was the state deciding who should be allowed to breed, or to survive, for the supposed good of the race. (mattridley.co.uk)
  • A student at a science fair did a presentation on race and IQ . (vdare.com)
  • Muhammad told the crowd that to combat bans on critical race and gender studies, they will need to inspire others to join them in defending the truth. (thecrimson.com)
  • The text was published in the journal Epidemiology and Public Health by Kevin Mugur Galalae, founder and director of Center of Global Consciousness, a group dedicated to stopping eugenics programs that seek to eliminate those undervalued in society. (naturalnews.com)
  • Many other states eventually modeled their own sterilization legislation on this Act, as did Nazi Germany with its more well known eugenics programs. (naturalnews.com)
  • Sterilization programs like the one in Virginia really picked up steam across the U.S. in the 1930s, right after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of upholding Virginia's eugenics law. (naturalnews.com)
  • This undercuts social equality, and feeds into the link between intelligence testing and eugenics, which still looms large for many. (newscientist.com)
  • Our greatest accomplishments and insights in art, science, technology, philosophy, theology, medicine and government are timeless-things that once known can never truly be unknown. (time.com)
  • This is a page straight out of Amalek's book - casting doubt on God's basic truth, eroding people's morality with "practical considerations", normalizing deviant behavior, corrupting society, and creating an army of monsters who commit atrocities. (frontpagemag.com)
  • But I was disappointed by the scope of the inquiry, and by the fact that it failed entirely to engage with the science. (dcscience.net)
  • In fact ever since Lionel Penrose took over the Galton chair in 1946, every UCL person whom I have read or met has condemned eugenics. (dcscience.net)
  • For those who wonder whether the phrase 'liberal fascist' is a little over the top, in fact it was coined by science fiction novelist H.G. Wells. (freerepublic.com)
  • This event may have more to do with defense, science, and technology in the U.S. than any other event," Miller says. (umich.edu)
  • Today I'd like to draw several more parallels between eugenics and contemporary breastfeeding research. (skepticalob.com)
  • To my knowledge, across the breadth of eugenics "research" there was never a paper or study that showed that supposedly "inferior" races were actually equal or superior. (skepticalob.com)
  • NaturalNews) A study published last month by the Center of Global Consciousness, explores the manner in which humans are being pushed to the brink of extinction through a sinister eugenics program orchestrated by the world's elite, using forced vaccinations , industrial pollutants and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) . (naturalnews.com)
  • Virginia is the second state to approve compensation for victims of its eugenics program, with North Carolina being the first. (naturalnews.com)
  • Back in 2013, North Carolina approved payments of $50,000 for each of the remaining victims of its eugenics program. (naturalnews.com)
  • The problem of misinformation, the problem of anti-truth - or what I call organized and legislated lies - is a problem fundamentally of power, the power to control the lives of others," he said. (thecrimson.com)
  • Occasionally, some instances also use paranormal methods, such as black magic, and/or technology and science of extraterrestrial origin. (abovetopsecret.com)
  • Only Wesley's skepticism and fear of that "truth" saves the ship and the crew from imminent disaster. (andylazris.com)
  • He wrote in his autobiography The Days of a Man, "During the three years which followed [my entrance as a 'belated' freshman in March 1869], I completed all the requirements for a degree of Bachelor of Science, besides about two year of advanced work in Botany. (wikipedia.org)
  • These corrosive ideas, accompanied by newer, equally bad science, are now back in full force. (bullfrogfilms.com)
  • But it's an equally hard truth that stupid is forever too. (time.com)
  • The Subversion of Medicine and Public Health by International Security Prerogatives delves into the underlying basis of eugenics, the concept that in order for civilization to "progress," the unintelligent need to be swiftly weeded out. (naturalnews.com)