Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast.

Slippery Slope arguments are technically logical fallacies, but they persist as potent

political arguments because of the well-founded fear that good ideas sometimes take into

an extreme can become very bad ideas, and there's

almost no slope more slippery than eugenics.

The practice has such a well-earned bad reputation that we often forget that most who have

gone down the eugenics path did so with nothing but the best of intentions.

And it may be happening again.

The wave of eugenic thinking from a century ago came out of the scientific revolution of Darwinism

and the economic landscape and overt white supremacy of the Gilded Age.

Now we're facing the scientific revolution of gene editing

technology at the same moment as we happen to be living through the economics of the second

Gilded Age and the racial incitement of Trumpism. For those looking for a quick overview,

sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes today includes Ted Ed,

Conspiruality, Politics Theory, Other, Some More News, and Today in Focus.

Then, in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in five sections.

Section A, Historical Context, followed by Section B, RFK Jr. on autism.

Section C, Tech Bros, Section D, Pronatalism, and Section E MAGA.

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