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eugenicist

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eu·gen·i·cist  (y-jn-sst) also eu·gen·ist (yj-nst)
n.
An advocate of or a specialist in eugenics.


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He has produced an enjoyably full-strength polemic against the fans of social Darwinism, from serial killers citing the need to save the human race by dispatching some of it with a sawn-off shotgun to Fabian eugenicists and their modern "designer baby" emulators.
February 27 1867 Saugerties, New York – April 29 1947, New York) was an American economist, health campaigner, and eugenicist, and one of the earliest American neoclassical economists and, although he was perhaps the first celebrity economist, his reputation
These considerations ring eerily reminiscent of the eugenicists who believed that human hereditary traits could be altered by controlling (sometimes forcibly) reproduction within the population.
 
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