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By Jallicia A. Jolly, Sydney Curtis and Nicole Sessions, Ms. Magazine | 10.17.2025
Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...
By Jay S. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.27.2025
This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
By Lea Winerman, Washington Post | 08.26.2013
Midway through her pregnancy four years ago, Denise Bratina got some scary news. Doctors told Bratina, then 37, that amniocentesis...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 08.26.2013
US behavioural researchers have been handed a dubious distinction — they are more likely than their colleagues in other parts...
By Dr. Barry Starr, KQED | 08.26.2013
For the right person, an online genetic test can be both fun and useful. But for someone else, it might...
By Kimberly Johnson, Aljazeera America | 08.23.2013
Willis Lynch clearly remembers the day, 66 years ago, when his bloodline was stopped.
Lynch was only 14 years old...
By Nathaniel Comfort, Scientific American | 08.23.2013
Is eugenics a historical evil poised for a comeback? Or is it a noble but oft-abused concept, finally being done...
By Maria Cheng, Associated Press | 08.22.2013
LONDON (AP) — Since the first test-tube baby was born more than three decades ago, in vitro fertilization has evolved...
By Rose Eveleth, Smithsonian | 08.22.2013
Many non-racist people like to call themselves “color blind,” as in “blind to the color of someone’s skin.” But what...
By Editorial, Nature | 08.21.2013
Full disclosure of the potential risks to people who volunteer to be test subjects for biomedical research has been a...