Fortunately, science chose to focus on preventing disease, instead of looking for the recessive "polio genes" the authors of this 1942 article imagined. Sadly, #psychiatry still attempts to uncover similarly non-existent or irrelevant genes for its "mental disorders." #WGPG2021

"the soaring total costs [of autism] raise pressing policy questions and demand an urgent focus on prevention strategies." link.springer.com/article/10.100…

"We study, for the first time, automated inference on criminality based solely on still face images, which is free of any biases of subjective judgments of human observers" arxiv.org/pdf/1611.04135…

"Recent Studies of Ethnic Differences in the Cognitive Ability of Adolescents in the United Kingdom" ~Richard Lynn and John G.R. Fuerst mankindquarterly.org/archive/issue/…

"Estimated likelihood of violence was significantly related to actual violent history, suggesting that violent tendencies can be accurately inferred from a brief look at a person's face." sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

With statements like "no equivalent agencies exist to increase birth rates," this paper has the 100k follower Great Replacement people in a tizzy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

"To make the police investigation department more effective, this research... can predict criminals or possibilities of being criminal based on Lombrosso's Theory of Criminology about born criminals or the persons who look like criminals." lgurjcsit.lgu.edu.pk/index.php/lgur…

"Companies have recently begun to sell a new service to patients considering in vitro fertilization: embryo selection based on polygenic scores" nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

#Legacies of #Eugenics in #NewEngland This looks great. Free but you have to register. ow.ly/kBmA50Gd4XB

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OK nature, it's your turn now: sciencemag on its eugenics history: science.org/content/blog-p…

"Can 'Eugenics' be Defended?" Monash Bioethics Review, 2021 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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