Beware the New Eugenics

Beware the New Eugenics

Visionaries, dreamers, and autocrats have long dreamt of reshaping humanity to their preferred model. In the last century, eugenics was enthusiastically embraced among Anglo-Saxon elites, then by Communist Russia as a means of creating a hyper-selfless Homo Sovieticus, and, most infamously, Nazi Germany's drive to create a "master race" via racial-hygiene laws and the extermination of people with disabilities and other "lives unworthy of life."

Scientists must push back against Trump’s genetic exclusion campaigns

Countering the US president’s divisive misuse of genetics starts with asking the right research questions, says Mareile Kaufmann