Thread by @AdamRutherford

It appears that I wrote this week’s editorial in @ScienceMagazine, on eugenics, and the centenary of the 2nd International Eugenics Congress.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

It was a meeting of ghouls and scientists, Davenport, Laughlin and Madison Grant, alongside RA Fisher and Sewall Wright, and shows how close the emerging study of heredity was with the political ideology of eugenics science.org/doi/pdf/10.112…

And some more context, including the role of @ScienceMagazine in the promotion of eugenics at the time (which was fairly typical)

science.org/content/blog-p…

Expect more of this. We must know our own history, and we mustn’t be distracted by posturing about semantics and what is or isn’t eugenics. It was a political movement that co-opted science for credibility, but was primarily concerned with control. That remains the same today.