'Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics' by Linda Walker 63K
http://www.human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html

This essay is a personal history of one woman's discovery of the consequences
of polygamous inbreeding for the health of the children of such unions:
inherited disorders, some of which are fatal. It is as if the Mormons had
studied classical eugenics and pursued the opposite practices, leading to
serious inensification of deleterious traits. Assuming that the claims in Linda
Walker's account are as she reports them, this is occurring - as a recent trial
has made clear - in spite of official opposition by the Church of the Latter
Day Saints and the legal authorities. It is a poignant story. A church which
sought to intensify its elite through the marriage of  close relatives has
produced a eugenic nightmare, something which, by her account, it appears to
have sought to keep from public attention by falsifying records.

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