A Dangerous Idea

Eugenics, Genetics and The American Dream

         ABout the director

Stephanie Welch is a documentarian and executive director of Paragon Media, a nonprofit media organization that is the co-producer of A DANGEROUS IDEA. Welch is also the senior producer of the award-winning syndicated program Bioneers Radio: Revolution from the Heart of Nature, She co-produced the radio documentary Biowars: First Do No Harm, which won a NFCB Silver Reel Award. Welch is also audio engineer for Women Rising Radio.

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A Dangerous Idea:
​Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream

Director: Stephanie Welch
Runtime: 108 min
Rating: NR
DVDCat#: PRDVD4144
UPC: 602573752586
​Pre-book: 9/4/2018
Street: 10/2/2018 
SRP: $24.95

Genres: Documentary, Politics

A dangerous idea has threatened the American Dream from the beginning – the belief that some groups and individuals are inherently superior to others and more deserving of fundamental rights. Such biological determinism provided an excuse for some of America’s most shameful history. And now it’s back.

The documentary “A Dangerous Idea” reveals how biologically determined politics has disenfranchised women and people of color, provided a rationale for state sanctioned crimes committed against America’s most vulnerable citizens, and now gains new traction under the Trump administration.

Featuring interviews with social thinkers such as Van Jones and Robert Reich, as well as prominent scientists, A DANGEROUS IDEA is a radical reassessment of the meaning, use and misuse of gene science. Like no other film before it, this documentary brings to light how false scientific claims have rolled back long fought for gains in equality, and how powerful interests are poised once again to use the gene myth to unravel the American Dream.

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