The majority of the Eugenics Enquiry committee refuse to sign the official report, this being one of the reasons.
In the week that commentary was published, I personally taught genetics and race, and eugenics and medicine to around 400 undergrads.
In the week that commentary was published, I personally taught genetics and race, and eugenics and medicine to around 400 undergrads.
We estimate that Steve Jones *alone* has taught a critical history of eugenics at UCL to maybe 12,000 undergraduates, including me as a first year in 1994.
Furthermore, the engagement with the history of Eugenics at UCL and beyond has formed a core part of the development of medical techniques pioneered in the genetics department at UCL, such as Prenatal genetic diagnoses, and genetic counselling.
I know we’re all preoccupied by #COVID19 now, but it is important to correct the record.
The Eugenics Enquiry was deeply problematic for a number of reasons, one of which, as restated in the commentary in @nature, was to deny or ignore the work of geneticists in confronting our own history. For decades we have led the critical exposure of the history of eugenics.
