It's just a jeans ad. It's not that deep. It's just social media outrage. Should physicians care about the recent American Eagle "Sydney Sweeney Has Good Genes Jeans" controversy? What, if anything, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These are just a few examples of the influence of eugenics in the early 20th century. The idea of scientist Francis Galton, ...

In the twenty-first century United States, laws and social relationships continue to be shaped and reinforced by stark distinctions between different racial groups. Eugenics and public health ...

Everyone, from celebrities like Doja Cat to the White House’s communications team, has reacted to the viral American Eagle “great jeans” campaign starring “Euphoria” actress Sydney Sweeney. The ...

The University of California, Berkeley announced it is renaming and repurposing a research fund originally dedicated to the study of eugenics, the now-debunked practice of controlled selective ...

Logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, NYC, 1922. The American Eugenics Society had its first headquarters in a building on the site of what is now City Hall. At the first gathering, ...

Virginia governor Mark Warner apologized publicly early in May for “Virginia's participation in eugenics,” alluding specifically to a now-repudiated 1924 law endorsing involuntary sterilization.

David Starr Jordan was the first president of Stanford University. He was also one of the most influential eugenicists of the early 20th century. I am not going to write about any of that here.