Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The New York Times has taken the mainstream media’s sanewashing of Donald Trump to the next level, this time with an ...

Before World War I, no one predicted that health and beauty evaluations of babies would hide a darker side of America. Yet, ...

Amid the glorious history of our country, there have been dark clouds, shameful events that fell short of the founding ideals, including: slavery, the bloody War Between the States, the denial of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert A. Millikan, right, shares a light moment on the Caltech campus in 1931 with physicists Albert Einstein, center, and A.A.

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ROCHESTER — Drs. William and Charles Mayo are known as medicine’s dynamic duo, talented surgeons and founders of Mayo Clinic who turned a small rural town into a worldwide medical mecca. But the ...

Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s views of modern medical genetics have to be evaluated independently of her radical, revisionist history of eugenics (“Medical Genetics Is Not Eugenics,” The Chronicle Review, May ...

Photo: This family was awarded Honorable Mention, Large Family Class, as part of a eugenics exhibit at a Kansas fair in 1923. The term eugenics comes from the Greek roots for "good" and "generation" ...

David Starr Jordan, the first president of Stanford University, was one of the most prominent eugenicists of the early 20th century. In the name of eugenic progress, Jordan promoted the sterilization ...

In 1932 the United States Public Health Service began a study designed as an observation of the natural history of latent syphilis. The “Tuskegee study,” as it is commonly known, lasted 40 years, ...

On Monday, Planned Parenthood removed the name of Margaret Sanger from its health clinic in Manhattan. By way of explanation, the organization cited its founder’s “harmful connections to the eugenics ...