“Racist terrorists are obsessed with demographics. Let’s not give them talking points,” is the title of an interesting viewpoint featured in a Washington Post Op-Ed, written by new postdoc Leslie Root, who is on Amanda Stevenson’s fertility research team. “…the truth is that if we want to avoid giving scientific cover to murderous racists, we need to rethink how we talk about fertility rates and the changing racial and ethnic compositions of populations,” Leslie says. Read more on how she feels about fueling the fire of the “survival-of-the-fittest” mentality.
