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The fundamental point here is that there is no such thing as race. http://www.iflscience.com/environment/science-says-there-no-such-thing-race/ http://www.ifls
by basicplus2 9y ago
The fundamental point here is that there is no such thing as race.
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/science-says-there-no-such-thing-race/ http://www.iflscience.com/environment/science-says-there-no-...
- dozzie 9y agoOh yes, there's no such thing as race, because you can't look into DNA and say this man was black. Though you can look at his skeleton and say he was black; ask any anatomopatholog or orthopedics doctor about that. What was about those races, again?
- basicplus2 9y agohttps://www.thoughtco.com/scientific-vs-social-definition-of-race-2834954 https://www.thoughtco.com/scientific-vs-social-definition-of...
- basicplus2 9y ago"The practice of inferring race from bones is also somewhat controversial. While today's forensic anthropologists don't like to talk about it, the discipline has its roots in the pseudoscientific 19th-century practice of using skull measurements to prove Caucasian intellectual superiority." http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/01/alas_poor_yorick_or_is_it_othello.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
- dozzie 9y agoThough the skulls and knees, for instance, are different between races. It doesn't mean that people of one race are smarter because of skull size or shape, but the bones do have the shape discernibly different. Similarly you don't dismiss chemistry just because it has unscientific alchemic roots.