The UK government is under intense pressure to sack Sabisky for his comments about eugenics, the widely discredited attempt to link intelligence t0 racial characteristics. The Downing Street ...

Eugenics is nowadays regarded as morally wrong, but in the early 20th century it had many powerful supporters... I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding ...

One of the two staffers for Elon Musk ’s Department of Government Efficiency who was granted access to the U.S. Treasury ’s sensitive payment system has quit his post after the White House was asked ...

In 1883 a British biologist named Francis Galton combined the roots of the Greek words for "good" and "origin" to create the term "eugenics" for an applied science based on genetics and breeding.

Spring 1924 was the high water mark for the Eugenics Record Office, a Cold Spring Harbor research facility whose staff hoped to use selective breeding to engineer the human race. The work is now ...

One of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency goons resigned Thursday amid growing inquiries over his links to a social media account pushing racism and eugenics theories. Marko Elez, 25, was ...

The eugenics movement of the early 1900s ultimately went horribly wrong despite its noble aims. What can we learn from this movement's outcomes in order to avoid the repetition of these mistakes?

Photo: This family was awarded Honorable Mention, Large Family Class, as part of a eugenics exhibit at a Kansas fair in 1923. The term eugenics comes from the Greek roots for "good" and ...