Some scientists say the entire scientific community needs to reckon with how their research is too-easily co-opted by racist elements online.
Modern day genetics were built from a crumbling bedrock of eugenics. Nowhere is that more literal than at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, New York. The area around the lab is bucolic, serene. The lab sits on the edge of the glittering bay that gives the lab its name. The surrounding trees change with the seasons, but the building’s and area feel timeless.The lab was once a centerpoint of the American eugenics movement.
The ideas presented by American and European eugenicists culminated and festered in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. An estimated 6 million Jews and 5 million others were killed in that systematized slaughter. After World War II, the rise of mendelian genetics took hold and supplanted eugenics. The last international eugenics convention was held in 1932. Since then, what has appeared from eugenicist circles in the U.S.
“[People] have been duped,” he said, moving closer to his screen as he talked to Gizmodo over Zoom. “They need to understand that race is a fallacy… Any of those types of assumptions that are rooted in heredity or biology, that are just prejudice or wrong and should be called out, and we should not see them on our screens. Tucker Carlson, you’re wrong. That’s not biology. That’s prejudice.
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