Scientific progress devoid of moral reflection risks repeating past injustices ...

In the world of pseudo-science, eugenics holds a dark position in history thanks to its being a social philosophy based on improving society via the manipulation of a population’s genetic stock. Its ...

In 1910, the renowned biologist Charles B. Davenport founded the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a biomedical research and education center on Long Island, New York. His ...

My wife brought up an interesting paper the other day about how they might soon be able to "fix"/prevent Down Syndrome using CRISPR. To her, this is a travesty. She is a special education teacher and ...

One hundred and sixty years ago this month, the Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel presented his experiments on pea plants to a group of scientists in Brno, Moravia, in which he offered a revolutionary ...

"How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth ...

To encourage scientists to speak up when people misuse science to serve political agendas, biology professor Mark Peifer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argues that eugenics should ...

Introduction: Eugenics and the Modern World / Philippa Levine & Alison Bashford -- PART ONE: TRANSNATIONAL THEMES IN THE HISTORY OF EUGENICS -- The Darwinian Context: Evolution and Inheritance / Diane ...

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research laboratory, is located on Long Island, New York, where I live. Its outrageous history is detailed in a forthcoming book, “Long Island and the ...