Eugenics Conference Stopped

About 20 activists brought the Galton Institute's (previously the British Eugenics Society) two day conference on 'Man and Society in the New Millenium' to a hasty finale by disrupting the concluding lectures. Glayde Whitney, described even by the Daily Mail as "the world's most loathsome scientist" and Arthur Jensen, both extreme eugenicists and scientific racists, were about to take the floor when the lecture hall was occupied, attempts were made to seize lecture notes and sound equipment was disabled.

Activists refused to leave until the conference had been abandoned and the hosting London Zoological Society agreed to review the scheduling of such an event in the future.

Meanwhile Jensen and Whitney were ushered out and whilst making a hasty retreat in the direction of the car park Jensen unfortunately found himself caught in an awkward plight with some angry tomatoes.

Contact People Against Eugenics c/o the Genetic Engineering Network.