Hacker News with Generative AI: Eugenics

'Slippery slope to eugenics': advocates reject RFK Jr's national autism database (theguardian.com)
Autism researchers and advocates are pushing back against the creation of an autism database – meant to track the health of autistic people in a major research study – and pointing to the ways such databases could be misused.
Autism, Health Research, Eugenics, Privacy Concerns
12 points by bookofjoe 54 days ago | 1 comments
Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand (nature.com)
In 1924, motivated by the rising eugenics movement, the United States passed the Johnson–Reed Act, which limited immigration to stem “a stream of alien blood, with all its inherited misconceptions”.
Eugenics, Genetics, History, Science, Ethics
14 points by geox 62 days ago | 1 comments
Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back (disconnect.blog)
Elon Musk has been warning about population decline and smaller families for years. In his 2015 biography, he’s quoted as saying, “if each successive generation of smart people has fewer kids, that’s probably bad.”
Silicon Valley, Eugenics, Population Decline, Elon Musk
13 points by zzzeek 133 days ago | 5 comments
The Quiet Return of Eugenics (spectator.co.uk)
Eugenics, Ethics, History, Social Issues
5 points by pseudolus 356 days ago | 0 comments