While I agree with many things the authors says in this essay, the article unfortunately has an 'apologistic touch', so to say. The author starts by casually me

While I agree with many things the authors says in this essay, the article unfortunately has an 'apologistic touch', so to say. The author starts by casually mentioning that six million jews were killed in the name of an ill-conceived and scientifically unsubstantiated race ideology, and then quickly turns to genetic issues and how they support certain differences in isolated populations. The problem with this way of laying things out is that it does not do justice to the often horrific ways 'race' and even well-justified, measurable differences between populations are handled in society. The word 'race' should not be used by anyone in any context any longer, because it has been misunderstood, ill-defined and systematically abused over and over. It would be irresponsible to attempt to reappropriate the term into scientific usage. Apart from that, differences in genetic populations exists just as differences in cultures exist, and I don't think anyone has ever denied that. Researchers need to be aware, though, that there is a bunch of bad human beings out there who will invariably draw the wrong conclusions from such research and advocate policies that are plain evil.