Eugenics = Genetics

Charitable foundations, Eugenics, re-branded.

The great thing about books is that they are available for reading, reflection and comparison.

I’m currently looking into these two:

The one to the left is one of the books I bought last year. “War Against the Weak” is about the little known history of Eugenics.

It was written by Edwin Black and published in 2003 as a result of a decade’s work by fifty researchers in fifteen cities, in four countries and more than one hundred institutions, involving a score of librarians, archivists and researchers.

It tells the story of the Eugenics movement which originated in the fine halls of Oxford, England and various elite universities and charitable foundations like the Carnegie Institute in America.

Eugenics was “the Science” of the time. Leaving these snapshots for reflection.

The science as such was pretty settled, I guess. That is, until a certain German with a mustache unsettled it enough that they re-branded it “Genetics”

The most recent acquisition is a book from 1978. It is an introduction to the history of viruses, whatever they are.

I have only just started reading in this little book but this thing called Genetics came up when I read what charitable foundation had financed it.

Charitable foundations.

If you are interested in learning more about the Eugenics movement, then here is a good summary with timestamps by Jason Bradley. Jason has been researching the subject for some time and made several videos about it.