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Eugenics history: university geneticists respond

  1. Andrew Pomiankowski

    1. University College London, UK.

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  2. Mark G. Thomas

    1. University College London, UK.

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    1. University College London, UK.

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    1. University College London, UK.

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    1. University College London, UK.

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    1. University College London, UK.

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    1. University College London, UK.

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    1. University College London, UK.

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We wish to correct Angela Saini’s misleading claim that University College London’s geneticists were “willing to overlook” their department’s links with the Galton Laboratory, founded for research into eugenics in 1904 (Nature 579, 175; 2020). This undermines several decades of determined effort by us and our predecessors to confront the laboratory’s troubling history.

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Nature 580, 321 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01080-7

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