Health Equity

UC Berkeley is disavowing its eugenic research fund after bioethicist and other faculty call it out

Abstract: UC Berkeley disavowed a research fund for eugenics it had kept for decades after a campus bioethicist and others protested. But eugenic ideology remains embedded in science today.

Publication: The Los Angeles Times

Date Published: October 26, 2020

Author(s): Teresa Watanabe

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