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The pseudoscience behind it is straight from eugenics.
Despite that, its depiction of an ignorant society unaware of the technology supporting it was incredibly prophetic. If we ignore the "dumb people reproducing" bit, we can see it as a warning about how an uneducated society is detrimental for everyone.
I mean, we have flat earthers, for fuck's sake.
Eugenics (by some definitions) doesn't even have to be unethical if you turn left off of "state-enforced sterilization highway" and on to "provide the opportunity to let people optimise their children's genome street". It is basically transhumanism at that point. Probably still some problems there, but at least its not coercive, and its also already possible today. Equality of access to polygenetic screening I say!