How and Why Scientists Lie About Race

[Cruiser]

http://spawktalk.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-and-why-scientists-lie-about-race.html

 

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[Donnadogsoth]

http://spawktalk.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-and-why-scientists-lie-about-race.html

 

I've just finished reading the whole post, found it interesting and wanted to share the post on the forum.

 

tl:dr version?  Any highlights you'd like to share?

[Mattw]

I think this problem is a subset of liberal lying: Why do liberals lie?

 

The short answer is that they lie in order to maintain their model of the world. Their model works something like this:

 

1. People are the same all over the world. No better or worse than any other.

2. People are basically good.

3. Economic outcome for all groups should be equal (no better or worse than.)

4. Religions are equal (no better or worse than.)

5. Cultures are equal (no better or worse than.)

 

If people are the same, then how can races be different?

 

Check out this book:

 

Amazon.com: Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science (9781594206085): Alice Dreger: Books - http://amzn.com/1594206082

 

"Dreger began to realize how some fellow progressive activists were employing lies and personal attacks to silence scientists whose data revealed uncomfortable truths about humans."

 

This illuminating chronicle begins with Dreger’s own research into the treatment of people born intersex (once called hermaphrodites). Realization of the shocking surgical and ethical abuses conducted in the name of “normalizing” intersex children’s gender identities moved Dreger to become an internationally recognized patient rights’ activist. But even as the intersex rights movement succeeded, Dreger began to realize how some fellow progressive activists were employing lies and personal attacks to silence scientists whose data revealed uncomfortable truths about humans. In researching one such case, Dreger suddenly became the target of just these kinds of attacks.

 

 

[Mister Mister]

tl:dr version?  Any highlights you'd like to share?

 

it's summed up in his conclusion quite nicely.

[Des]

"the idea that race cannot be a biologically valid category because it is socially constructed is just another example of scientists leading people astray on race."

 

Taxonomy is socially constructed and has scientific utility.