How to use in-sentence of “eugenics”:
+ Bell was an active supporter of the eugenics movement in the United States.
+ The idea of eugenics is controversial today for these reasons.
+ In organizing their eugenics program, the Nazis were inspired by the United States’ programs of forced sterilization, and especially the eugenics laws that had been enacted in California.
+ In the United States, eugenics became a very popular idea in the early 20th century.
+ The eugenics movement was very popular in the United States by the time it spread to Germany.
+ Fisher was an ardent promoter of eugenics, and he held the Chair in Eugenics at University College London from 1933 until he moved to Cambridge University as Professor of Genetics in 1943.
Example sentences of “eugenics”:
+ But some of those who led the eugenics movement used it to justify racism and prejudice.
+ The idea of eugenics is Controversycontroversial, because in the past it was sometimes used to justify unhealthy or inferior.
+ Galton developed the idea of eugenics throughout his life.
+ He is regarded as a pioneer of eugenics and Nazi eugenics in Germany.
+ Owen Benjamin says that the transgender movement is just a modern day version of eugenics and that radio host Jesse Thorn is a child molester because he transitioned his kid.
+ They referred to social darwinism and eugenics of the early 20th century, and to other more recent ideas, such as the Race race and IQ controversy of the early 1970s as cautionary tales in the use of evolutionary principles as applied to human society.
+ Though there are few people who openly advocate eugenics today, many people wonder what improvements in genetic technologies will mean in the future.
+ Breaking with his former beliefs, the Professor admits that any peasant woman could give birth to a genius and that eugenics are a waste of time.
+ But some of those who led the eugenics movement used it to justify racism and prejudice.
+ The idea of eugenics is Controversycontroversial, because in the past it was sometimes used to justify unhealthy or inferior.
+ Some people oppose eugenics and genetic counselling for religious reasons.
+ Nevertheless, what stopped the eugenics movement was not better science.
+ They used eugenics as an excuse to pass laws which to restrict immigration from countries that they did not like, saying that the people in them were genetically “unfit”.
+ The idea of eugenics was rather different.
+ In 1934, Fisher moved to increase the power of scientists within the Eugenics Society, but was ultimately thwarted by members with an environmentalist point of view, and he, along with many other scientists, resigned.
+ Huxley was a prominent member of the British Eugenics Society.