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The Cold Spring Harbor Eugenics Laboratory |
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Patricia Doyle |
| Hello Jeff We discussed many times the role that Cold Spring
Harbor Lab and ole James Dewey Double Helix Watson played in the Texas
Correctional outbreak in Houston Tx. Well this is of interest. Did you know that Cold Spring Harbor was opened in 1890 and established as a Eugenics lab? Harry Laughlin was assistant to Charles Davenport at the Eugenics base at the lab known as the Eugenics Record Office and was instrumental in passing many forced sterilization laws and eugenics laws in the US, including the 1927 law allowing for forced sterilization of those deemed unsuitable to reproduce. I have to wonder if Eugenics will become popular again with the new immigrants to Europe and the US when it comes to their sterilizing the white Europeans and North Americans. Could what happened in the early 1900s happen again in 2017 onward. You bet. All one has to do is to listen to the rhetoric spewed by the migrants and also the Black and Hispanic Harvard students who proclaim that the white race should die out. Patty The Cold Spring Harbor Eugenics Laboratory Wikipedia The institution took root as The Biological Laboratory in 1890, a summer program for the education of college and high school teachers studying zoology, botany, comparative anatomy and nature. The program began as an initiative of Franklin Hooper, director of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the founding institution of The Brooklyn Museum.[14] In 1904, the Carnegie Institution of Washington established the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor on an adjacent parcel. In 1921, the station was reorganized as the Carnegie Institution Department of Genetics. Between 1910 and 1939, the laboratory was the base of the Eugenics Record Office of biologist Charles B. Davenport and his assistant Harry H. Laughlin, two prominent American eugenicists of the period. Davenport was director of the Carnegie Station from its inception until his retirement in 1934. In 1935 the Carnegie Institution sent a team to review the ERO's work, and as a result the ERO was ordered to stop all work. In 1939 the Institution withdrew funding for the ERO entirely, leading to its closure. The ERO's reports, articles, charts, and pedigrees were considered scientific facts in their day, but have since been discredited. However, its closure came 15 years after its findings were incorporated into the National Origins Act (Immigration Act of 1924), which severely reduced the number of immigrants to America from southern and eastern Europe who, Harry Laughlin testified, were racially inferior to the Nordic immigrants from England and Germany. Charles Davenport was also the founder and the first director of the International Federation of Eugenics Organizations in 1925. Today, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory maintains the full historical records, communications and artifacts of the ERO for historical,[15] teaching and research purposes. The documents are housed in a campus archive and can be accessed online[16] and in a series of multimedia websites.[17] Carnegie Institution scientists at Cold Spring Harbor made many contributions to genetics and medicine. In 1908 George H. Shull discovered hybrid corn and the genetic principle behind it called heterosis, or “hybrid vigor.”[18] This would become the foundation of modern agricultural genetics. Clarence C. Little[19] in 1916 was among the first scientists to demonstrate a genetic component of cancer. E. Carleton MacDowell in 1928 discovered a strain of mouse called C58 that developed spontaneous leukemia an early mouse model of cancer.[20] In 1933, Oscar Riddle isolated prolactin, the milk secretion hormone[21] and Wilbur Swingle participated in the discovery of adrenocortical hormone, used to treat Addison’s disease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Spring_Harbor_Laboratory |
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