The early eugenicists were not stupid, but they did not share our social values. The rise and fall of the eugenics movement is a history that modern medical geneticists would do well to heed.
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Paul, D., Spencer, H. The hidden science of eugenics. Nature 374, 302–304 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/374302a0
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