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Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...
This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
Few areas of science have contributed more to human misery than the study of racial difference. In the 1920s, eugenicists...
Jonah Winn-Lenetsky and Chris Pommier have wanted children ever since they started dating in college more than a...
On Tuesday, an Alaska man became the lead plaintiff in a proposed class-action lawsuit filed against the makers of Family...
Neurological conditions—which include dementia, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury—affect as many as one billion people...
The North American sky, according to historical accounts, was once black with passenger pigeons. Hunters, however, saw to it that...
Any medical advance always brings along con men hoping to exploit the news with useless or even dangerous "medicine" of...
On May 5th, 2014, I shared the platform in a webinar debate with Nicholas Wade (former NYTimes Science...