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Controversial racial
to be aired in libel
Associated Press
Atlanta ? Jury selection gets under
District Court for the trial of a $2.5 mil
by Nobel Prize-winning scientist Williai
Cox Enterprises and writer Roger Witli
The trill, expected to last up to six d
Shockley with a forum to air his contrc
blacks are genetically inferior in intellig
his proposal for a voluntary sterilizatio
Shockley, a 74-year-old professor err
engineering at Stanford* University, el
lawsuit that Witherspoon who is black
article published in 1980 in The Atlantc
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described the scientist's racial theory
sterilization bonus plan, which Shockly
of ending what he calls "dysgenics"
evolution caused by excessive repi
genetically disadvantaged."
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people who agree to sterilization one*
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parents based on the "best scientific
genetically carried disabilities such as
cell anemia, epilepsy, Huntington's chc
said, provided that no bonuses would
who pays federal income taxes.
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that potential parents who agree to st
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ed as a 'Nazi' or of approving the Na
World War il is comparable to being fal
murderer or approving mass murder."
Shockley could not be reached for
lawsuit, but he has told reporters in the
a courtroom hearing "to the degree tha
and enlightenment is beneficial."
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that the question of race differences is s
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filed in U.S. District Court in the case.
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