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The Guardian - US
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Jason Wilson

US natalist conference to host race-science promoters and eugenicists

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The campus of the University of Texas at Austin. It is the second time the Natal conference has been held. Photograph: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

A natalist conference featuring speakers including self-described eugenicists and promoters of race science, apparently including the man behind a previously pseudonymous race-science influencer account, and the founder of a startup offering IQ screening for IVF embryos, will be held at a hotel and conference venue operated by the public University of Texas, Austin.

Details of the conference have emerged as a prominent supporter of pro-natalist positions, the tech billionaire Elon Musk, lays waste US government agencies under the banner of his “Doge” initiative, with the blessing of Donald Trump.

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