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Propelled by tech money, the menace of race science is back – and it’s just as nonsensical as ever | Adam Rutherford

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Eugenics was formalised as a scientific discipline in the 19th century by the Victorian polymath Francis Galton .

He dedicated his life to promoting the idea that certain populations could and should be improved via selective breeding of humans.

The hive of scientists in America responsible for the spread of eugenics even provided inspiration for the Third Reich .

Dr Adam Rutherford is a lecturer in genetics at UCL and the author of How to Argue With a Racist .

He says the current renaissance of eugenics and race science is nothing more than bigotry dressed up as biology.

The science very clearly evidences this, and no amount of cosplay race science or human biodiversity can debunk it.