The Eugenics Crusade 🧬⚖️ | When Science Tried to Reshape Society | Boring History For Sleep

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<p>In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a movement known as eugenics gained support in many parts of the world. Advocates believed that society could be improved through selective breeding and policies designed to influence human populations.</p><p>What began as a controversial scientific theory soon affected laws, public policy, education, and medicine in numerous countries. Its influence reached governments, universities, and social institutions before its ideas were increasingly challenged and discredited.</p><p>A calm journey through scientific ambitions, political movements, social engineering, and one of the most controversial chapters in modern history.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Boring History For Sleep — Soft stories about history’s most troubling ideas.</strong></p>