Race science: Who bankrolled the early days of ‘race science’? And who backs that movement today?

Who bankrolled the early days of ‘race science’? And who backs that movement today?

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Wickliffe Draper spent his inheritance helping to skew the science of human difference. That mission continues ...
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Eugenics offers a warning about the perils of scientists chasing a brighter future at the ‘cost of innocent individual lives’

Guardian | 
We tend to associate eugenics with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, but it was in fact developed in London. Its ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Race realists’ distort science to promote controversial political views

Guardian | 
Far-right and anti-immigrant groups have once more become visible and powerful across Europe and the US. … I have spent ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Scientific racism’ and eugenics are infiltrating legitimate science again

Guardian | 
Researchers with extreme views on race number relatively few but, having languished on the margins of their fields for many ...

Grandma’s diet and diabetes: Epigenetic link found again

Observer | 
As with so much in science, this story owes a lot to mice. The tale begins with a pregnant mouse ...
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