Eugenics.si
The history of eugenics, taught as a warning
A scholarly, historical look at eugenics as a debunked pseudoscience and a human rights atrocity - who promoted it, what governments did with it, and how science and society repudiated it. Education against repeating it, never advocacy.
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Why eugenics was pseudoscience, explained through modern genetics.
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Policy and atrocity
How eugenic ideas became law, from sterilization to genocide.
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The history of eugenics
A factual record of eugenic ideology, its policies, and its repudiation - taught so it is never repeated.
Origins and ideology
- Francis Galton, 1883 — Coined the term 'eugenics', building on a distorted reading of his cousin Darwin's work.
- Social Darwinism — A misapplication of evolutionary theory to justify social hierarchy.
- Pseudo-scientific basis — Eugenics relied on crude, false ideas about heredity later disproven by genetics.
Eugenics as policy
- Buck v. Bell, 1927 — US Supreme Court upheld forced sterilization; over 60,000 Americans were later sterilized under such laws.
- Immigration Act of 1924 — US law restricting immigration using eugenic pseudo-science about 'inferior' populations.
- Aktion T4 — Nazi Germany's program murdering disabled people, built on eugenic ideology that fed into the Holocaust.
Repudiation and lessons
- Modern genetics rejects it — Population genetics shows eugenic premises about heredity and 'fitness' were false.
- Survivor reparations — Several US states have issued apologies and compensation to sterilization survivors.
- Bioethics today — Genetic testing and disability rights debates now explicitly draw on eugenics history as a warning.
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