Misleading Peopl Duster Eugenics Summary

Eugenics is the science to control human populations. Governments in the past have enforced laws on the population to sterilize people with genes that are not favorable in order to increase the population with desirable heritable characteristics. Scientists do this because they believe that it will improve the quality of the human population. This science attributes human phenotypes and behaviors with genotypes and biology. Eugenics is the effort to better a population by removing negative traits and sanitize society through genetics. There are many political and social movements involved with eugenics in America historically. Duster points out the positive and negative examples of eugenics. The negative examples of eugenics have impacted society by misleading …show more content…
Eugenics is creeping more through our backdoor as more research and information is being found on genetics. It is happening in the present and is not far away anymore. Science fields are getting more and more money to research and expand their knowledge and use, including the field of genetics. Science is only getting more advanced, cheaper, and accessible to use as we progress in the field. Duster believes that everything is biased, including science. The actual scientists who are making these scientific breakthroughs have biased opinions and thoughts that are bound to affect their work. Duster’s thesis states that there are not any announcements or publication on these breakthroughs occurring in eugenics to the public and society. All of these issues are happening very subtly. In the past, eugenics has creeped through the backdoor for the lower class. Tesh says, “because epidemics took a greater toll on the poor than the rich, the healthier rich could employ the supernatural theory as justification for berating the poor for sinful behavior…” One example Duster provides about the lower class occurred in New