Eugenics disappeared as a word that people in polite society would use and think about as its way of social engineering
a eugenicist who is drowning on a mine in the Gulf of Finland in the late 1940s
The first eugenics department in the university was at UCL, the UCL Eugenics Department.
And the Eugenics Society was a very progressive idea, a very liberal idea.
Many people believed that eugenics was a way to improve the lot of humanity.
This is from a eugenics text.
of the eugenics movement.
This is a eugenics kind of bulletin board that says some people are born to be a burden on the rest and that the Americans really made negative eugenics
We banned eugenics from consciousness.
And so the eugenicist aspect of his work obscured how eugenicist he was being.
very hard-- everything from eugenics on down to food.
He was a fervent eugenicist with an explosive temper and a remarkable inability to understand other people. For example, if Fisher got bored at a meeting, he might pull out his false
That seems to be a very rather eugenic sort of terminology nowadays.
But when you talk about eugenics , you're talking about state-sponsored eugenics , obviously the Nazi program being the one that
This is the Office of the Eugenics Society here in the UK.
And UCL has a great history in eugenics .
They had collected human skulls for eugenics research to basically say, look, here are African skulls, here are European skulls.
But that was the end of scientific eugenics as research by a long shot.
I'm going to digress from eugenics for a minute and leave England and go to France.
like the height of the eugenicist movement in both the United States and then reverberating back to Europe,
mind is this can really easily lead to a eugenicist view and I know eugenics is a
Britain, the eugenics movement was largely a progressive idea, not so much in America.
And so if you imagine this kind of old mad scientist eugenics program where they would breed humans for like 500 years,
On the one hand, it feels weirdly eugenics -y to do so much tinkering with embryos, and I can't help feeling a
We have a problematic history with the social and scientific history of eugenics .
something about you, I get nervous because of eugenics and race science, which are bad.
I mean, they were the kings of negative eugenics up until the time that it was taken up by the Nazis.
I think this idea of diversity is not-- the problem with the kind of eugenics view of the world is a simple minded view of what's best.
that they have good blood, into believing in eugenics .
For people who remember the horrors of the Holocaust or Tuskegee or the eugenics movement,
And I interview a professor of law in the book who-- he researches eugenics , which is the practice of trying
And many of these experiments were financed by America because we believed in eugenics , which is the theory that you
Um that really quickly can lead to eugenics .
But here's a concept you should think about, which is free market eugenics .
But basically, a great tolerant progressive institution that very much believed that eugenics was the future of a progressive society.
Either markets aren't working the way they're supposed to, or eugenics is real, and there is a 1% of people who are so smart that they should just
So Asperger not only had a gendered view of autism, he had an extremely eugenicist view in general.
One of the greatest scientists of 19th century, if it were not his obsession with eugenics , hereditary eugenics , he is the father of eugenics .
And then, of course, you have the eugenics questions.
He didn't work with great amounts of uncertainty. He was a eugenicist and he filled his house with cats and dogs and thousands of mice for cross-breeding experiments and he could trace
She was trafficked into child sexual slavery, and possibly even sterilized in prison against her will, due to the eugenic politics of her time.
Face forward, shoulders back, he recited, "I am a eugenic scientist.
So you can see this as some kind of quirky, indigenous, kind of eugenic society where everything is beautiful.
Okay, and then I think kind of like hovering over this whole conversation is the idea of eugenics .
But even in the United States, in the early 20th century, at Cold Spring Harbor Lab, there was eugenics based on state ideas for how to create a better, you know,
I don't think we have that problem now, because I don't think the state will ever mandate any eugenics .
Oh yeah, that's been making the rounds on Twitter lately, too, eugenics .
And Francis Galton invented a new idea, a distinctly British idea, called eugenics .
But I do think in our culture, Asperger's syndrome has taken on a bit of a eugenicist connotation.
Can you explain to us, for those of you who haven't read the book, what you mean by a eugenicist connotation?