> why is eugenics a bad word It's not. It's purely media manipulation over the past few years that has some people conditioned to reflexively associate "eugeni

> why is eugenics a bad word It's not. It's purely media manipulation over the past few years that has some people conditioned to reflexively associate "eugenic" with creeping Nazism. Consider this, from 2005: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2005/06/02/natural-genius https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2005/06/02/... Herman and Chomsky describe this dynamic well in Manufacturing Consent.