"[The Nuremberg Medical Trial] was part of the history of the day. And there was extensive reportage . . . so that the manner of human experimentation as it had been done by the Nazis was very much in the news. We were all aware of it. I think that people experienced this kind of revulsion about it that you might anticipate..."
-Dr. Herbert Abrams, 1995
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"It is commonly assumed that there is one, and only one, criterion of intelligence - that we are speaking always of the same thing when we use the word... In reality, our ideas are very vague on the subject."
-Thomas Hunt Morgan, 1932
"Eugenics doesn't end, really, until the '60s and '70s." |
“The American Eugenics Movement had been thoroughly discredited within the scientific community by the early 1930s. But as a popular movement, it was still pretty strong...” |