Harry Laughlin, director of the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, is discussed for his efforts to apply Mendelian genetics to human society. Laughlin organized exhibits at community fairs to educate the public on "best heredity" and promoted "dysgenics"—the fear that "unfit" populations would outbreed the intelligent. The hosts compare this ideology to the film *Idiocracy*, where society collapses under the weight of the unintelligent.