Some past Science News coverage was racist and sexist. We’re deeply sorry | Science News
Our most egregious failing was our supportive coverage of eugenics, a field of study and associated practices born from the false belief that humankind could be improved if only the people judged to have the most desirable traits were allowed to reproduce. Francis Galton, a British polymath who coined the term in the late 1800s, wrote that eugenics would give to the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable than they otherwise would have had.
Eugenics is bad. I suspect in the future it will not be bad, although in fact it will still be.