The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution, focusing on cancer, neurobiology nd plant genetics, was also a center of American eugenic research. The Laboratory now presents items from its eugenics archives on the web, as a guide to how research was used to advance the prejudices of the day, and how accurate science, along with changing social views, displaced earlier conclusions. It is important to remind yourself that the vast majority of eugenics work has been completely discredited. In the final analysis, the eugenic description of human life reflected political and social prejudices, rather than scientific facts. You may find some of the language and images in this Archive offensive.
Some terms have no scientific meaning today.
However, we have made no attempt to censor this documentary record - to do so would distort the past and diminish the significance of the lessons to be learned from this material. For this reason, names and places have been deleted from pedigrees, medical documents, and personal photographs. Furthermore, crises which do arise are more severe in countries with short-term debt burdens than would otherwise be the case. Furthermore, greater short-term exposure is associated with more severe crises when capital flows reverse. These economic horror stories aside, the authors do not intend to convey that short-term debt is a bad thing.