eugenicists
/juˈdʒɛnɪsɪsts/
noun
- People who support or promote eugenics, the belief that the human population can be improved by controlling who is allowed to have children.
- The museum exhibit showed how eugenicists used false science to justify discrimination.
- Eugenicists in the early 1900s often pushed for laws that forced certain people to be sterilized.
- Many modern scientists reject the ideas of eugenicists as both unethical and unscientific.
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