ROCKEFELLER EUGENICS: The Molecular Vision of Life

How the Aims of Eugenics, Social Control, and Human Engineering Shaped Molecular Biology and 20th Century Science.
https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/blog/2009/01/16/the-rockfeller-foundations-molecular-vision-of-life-how-the-aims-of-eugenics-social-control-and-human-engineering-shaped-molecular-biology-and-20th-century-science/Show more

A Review of Lily E. Kay's The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology (Oxford University Press, 1993)
https://educate-yourself.org/cn/Review-of-The-Molecular-Vision-of-Life16jan2009.shtml
https://archive.org/details/molecularvisiono0000kayl

The Rockefeller Foundation, founded in 1913, poured $25 million dollars of support into the molecular biology program of the United States between the years 1932 and 1959. The extent of its influence during this intensive period, however, went far beyond simple funding. The Foundation's molecular biology program permeated the academic infrastructures of all of the critical institutions, with Rockefeller trustees holding top administrative positions in universities. Officers of the foundation created an informal yet de facto peer review system, with scientific advisors providing them detailed knowledge of academic traffic and scientists and administrators consulting their judgment on academic appointments, reputations, personalities, travel, and potential projects. Warren Weaver, director of the Foundation's Natural Sciences Division, was often invited to sit in on faculty meetings.