In 1883 a British biologist named Francis Galton combined the roots of the Greek words for "good" and "origin" to create the term "eugenics" for an applied science based on genetics and breeding. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. participation in eugenics – the pseudoscientific field predicated on the belief that humanity’s gene pool can be improved ...

Among the dubious points that U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk makes in his recent ruling suspending the Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of mifepristone is that abortion is part of ...

The former “Mead Memorial Chapel” on the Middlebury College campus in Vermont. (Emily Power) This story was produced for StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which ...

The new book “‘Vermont for the Vermonters’: The History of Eugenics in the Green Mountain State,” as seen on the shelves of Everyone’s Books in Brattleboro. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger When ...

Supporters of Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) say the movement is improving the U.S. food supply and fighting corruption and corporate greed to make the nation healthier, but some critics see ...

One hundred and sixty years ago this month, the Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel presented his experiments on pea plants to a group of scientists in Brno, Moravia, in which he offered a revolutionary ...

House Speaker Jill Krowinski and Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint apologized for state-sanctioned eugenics movement in the Statehouse on Oct. 16, 2021. Sitting up front were members of the ...

Prominent historians and scholars convened virtually on Wednesday to discuss the legacy of eugenics in New England and at Harvard in a conference hosted by Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and ...

In today’s public discourse, the use of terms like “animals” and “apes” to refer to members of historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups strikes a painful chord. In a related manner (though ...