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The Jaffe Memo and Eugenics

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After World War 2, it became unwise to advocate for eugenics openly. However, since eugenicists believed that they were only extending scientific principles, and felt that they stood on the bedrock of Darwinian truth, they could not just abandon the program. They explicitly took to covert means of advancing their agenda, and, deprived of coercive …

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Julian Huxley: Population Control, Eugenics, and Birth Control all part of the same Program

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Contemporary advocates for birth control exhibit no awareness whatsoever that birth control was always conceived in the context of ‘eliminating the unfit,’ ie., eugenics. Eugenics, in turn, was considered a straight-forward logical extension of Darwinism. Eugenics was seen as human control of human evolution, and was always tied into discussions on ‘population control.’ These are …

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The Jaffe Memo and Eugenics

Julian Huxley: Population Control, Eugenics, and Birth Control all part of the same Program

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