This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On Sept. 2, in a comment from the White House aimed at justifying sending federal troops into Baltimore, President ...

Given the research and subsequent discussions of Teilhard’s connection to eugenics over the past few years, I was hopeful that the essay America published on the centennial of Teilhard de Chardin, S.J ...

Eugenics -- the discredited "science" that justified customizing people to service the goals of the state by making them bigger, better, whiter, you name it -- is back. In fact, it's playing at a ...

Spring 1924 was the high water mark for the Eugenics Record Office, a Cold Spring Harbor research facility whose staff hoped to use selective breeding to engineer the human race. The work is now ...

This story was published in partnership with The 74, a non-profit, non-partisan news site covering education in America. Even as a young girl, the shadow of a dark history hung over Orlice Hodges. At ...

Theodore Dru Alison “Theo” Cockerell was one of the early 20th-century’s best-known entomologists. Widely considered the foremost expert on bees, he was a prolific writer and researcher, and professor ...

Everybody knows Khan Noonien Singh. He’s one of the most famous Star Trek characters who isn’t a starship crewmember. But he’s also the poster boy for eugenics, the notion that you can improve the ...

According to students and professors, the mark of eugenics has not left campus — and has instead manifested itself into Yale’s curriculum. Many of the names inscribed on science classroom slides, ...

The western world believed the cosmos to be earth-centric, as both the Bible and Aristotelian science advocated the same. Such beliefs only impeded the development of scientific knowledge. But some ...