Sublime

A March 27, 2020, statement from the Food and Drug Administration offered a revealing look into the agency’s priorities: “FDA takes action to help increase U.S. supply of ventilators and respirators for protection of health care workers, patients.”

Having the activists on his side helped Fauci in another, more tangible way—the harder they pushed for funding, the bigger his research budgets became. In 1984, when he took over the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, it was the fifth-largest of the NIH’s departments, with a budget of $320 million. By 2005, its budget had incre

Altogether at least sixty thousand people were sterilized because of Laughlin’s efforts. At the peak of the movement in the 1930s, some thirty states had sterilization laws, though only Virginia and California made wide use of them. It is perhaps worth noting that sterilization laws remain on the books in twenty states today.