The American Society of Human Genetics has apologized for the participation of some of its early leaders in the eugenics movement, as well as the group’s failure to acknowledge and oppose other past harms and injustices in the field of genetics.
today for the participation of some of its early leaders in the eugenics movement, as well as the group’s failure to acknowledge and oppose other past harms and injustices in the field of genetics.
Like many groups and institutions, ASHG was galvanized to expand on its diversity and inclusion efforts by the murder of George Floyd, a Black man murdered by a Minnesota police officer in 2020, and the subsequent racial reckoning in the United States. ASHG hired an outside contractor to investigate its 75-year history.
ASHG also remained silent when genetics was misused to justify social harms in the 1960s and ’70s. For example, some scientists pushed the idea that Black people were intellectually inferior because of their genetics or allowed misunderstanding of the genetic nature of sickle cell disease to generate discrimination against Black people, according to the report.
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