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In Chapter 1, Aldous Huxley's characters introduce the Bokanovsky Process. The Bokanovsky Process's use of prenatal exposure to alcohol (PAE) to control the world population's economic class stratification and fertility has been corroborated with modern medical research. In Aldous Huxley's 1968 Foreword, Huxley addresses that "The theme of Brave New World is not the advancement of science as such; it is the advancement of science as it affects human individuals". Huxley specifically cites "only scientific advances to be specifically described are those involving the application to human beings of the results of future research in biology, physiology and psychology…This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings". In the same foreword Huxley declares, the first tool "To bring about that revolution we require…infant conditioning".
==Fordism and science==
In ''Brave New World'', the World State has no use for scientific discoveries that would be potentially subversive to its ethos that celebrates "Community, Identity, Stability." In Chapter 16, Huxley wrote,
{{Quote| "Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes, even science."
Science? The Savage frowned. He knew the word. But what it exactly signified he could not say. Shakespeare and the old men of the pueblo had never mentioned science, and from Linda he had only gathered the vaguest hints: science was something you made helicopters with, some thing that caused you to laugh at the Corn Dances, something that prevented you from being wrinkled and losing your teeth. He made a desperate effort to take the Controller's meaning.
"Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled."
"What?" said Helmholtz, in astonishment. "But we're always saying that science is everything. It's a hypnopædic platitude."
"Three times a week between thirteen and seventeen," put in Bernard.
"And all the science propaganda we do at the College …"
"Yes; but what sort of science?" asked Mustapha Mond sarcastically. "You've had no scientific training, so you can't judge. I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good–good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook. I'm the head cook now. But I was an inquisitive young scullion once. I started doing a bit of cooking on my own. Unorthodox cooking, illicit cooking. A bit of real science, in fact." He was silent.
"What happened?" asked Helmholtz Watson.
The Controller sighed. "Very nearly what's going to happen to you young men. I was on the point of being sent to an island."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Huxley |first1=Aldous |title=Brave New World |url=https://www.huxley.net/bnw/sixteen.html |website=Huxley.net |accessdate=23 June 2019}}</ref>"}}
==Comparisons with George Orwell's '' Nineteen Eighty-Four ''==
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