Eugenics: Science's Greatest Scandal
Episode 2
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It’s thought that eugenics disappeared after the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, but eugenic practices, such as the sterilization of the poor, continued on a global scale for many more years. Do eugenic-style attitudes towards the poor and disabled continue? And could breakthroughs in medicine, such as screening and gene editing, plus prejudice against the disabled, bring a form of eugenics back?