Eugenics is the dirty word that haunted the twentieth century.
It makes us think of forced sterilizations, Nazi death camps and ethnic genocide. It’s the attempt to use science to manipulate genetic inheritance, to change human evolution, to breed a “better” human.
It led to the belief that the lives of the disabled, the lower classes, the non-white – in fact people such as our presenters, Adam and Angela – were somehow worth less – even that they should be exterminated for the sake of the human gene pool.
EUGENICS: SCIENCE’S GREATEST SCANDAL – Season 1 Australian Premiere airs Wednesday January 12 at 7.30pm on HISTORY or watch On Demand
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