Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
2023/04/16
Bad Blood: The curse of Mendel (Eugenics-V)
In the mid-19th Century, Gregor Mendel observed how certain traits were passed on by breeding pea plants, an insight which inspired eugenics from 1900s onwards.
Bad Blood: Rassenhygiene Discovery (Eugenics-IV)
The mass sterilisation of those deemed ‘unfit’ by the Nazis and a programme of genocide in the name of eugenics.
Bad Blood: You will not replace us (Eugenics-II)
Bad Blood: You've got good genes Discovery (Eugenics-I)
The origins of Eugenics and the idea that we could breed ourselves to a brighter future by encouraging the right people to have babies.