Category: Corrections & Clarifications
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“Yes” to consistency (3/3)
“China is forcing women to be sterilised or fitted with contraceptive devices in Xinjiang in an apparent attempt to limit the population of Muslim Uighurs, according to new research.” China forcing birth control on Uighurs to suppress population, report says (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53220713) viewed 11 July 2020. So began the story recently published on a BBC webpage,…
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“Yes” to accurate history (2/3)
Essays and articles about British eugenicists are often based on the assumption that eugenic principles were not put into practice in Britain.[1] As a result, the degree to which British eugenicists are condemned for their views relies upon their proximity to the eugenic crimes that took place in Germany later in the Twentieth Century. The…
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“No” to cancel culture… (1/3)
University College London has cancelled Galton and Pearson on the grounds of eugenics, yet it continues to celebrate Dr Marie Stopes. A suggestion to replace their names with those who fought against eugenics.
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Burying Eugenics to Save Marie Stopes
Dr Marie Stopes is a key figure in the foundation myth of the British birth-control movement. The established narrative of a woman acting selflessly to give her poorer sisters reproductive rights has, in recent years, been undermined as her eugenic beliefs and advocacy of compulsory sterilisation have come to light. On the 99th anniversary of…
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Burying Galton to Save Eugenics
One month ago, there was a furore over eugenics in the British press. For all the protestations that eugenics had no place in modern Britain, it now appears that the purpose of the exercise was to bury Sir Francis Galton (the founder of modern eugenics) so that eugenics itself could be saved. One month ago,…