Tag: eugenics
Dune Finds Entertainment in Eugenics
The world-building is fantastic, but the historical background to the novels is also instructive.
Bioethicists Okay Human Extinction to Eliminate Suffering
A few months ago, Oxford professor Roger Crisp opined that we might not want to stop a huge asteroid from hitting the Earth.
“Unworthy lives”: Sophie Scholl vs. Richard Hanania
“Eugenics” was trending last week, and it was all thanks to one tweet.
Documentary Human Zoos Is Screened at Detroit’s African-American History Museum
The film tells how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in what scholars today call “human zoos.”
Following the Science, Doctors Joined the Nazis “In Droves”
There is a tendency to sanctify the medical profession, with the white coat serving as an icon of wisdom, compassion, and morality.