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EPISODE · Jun 30, 2026 · 3H 47M

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

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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.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.A calm journey through scientific ambitions, political movements, social engineering, and one of the most controversial chapters in modern history.Boring History For Sleep — Soft stories about history’s most troubling ideas.

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