> He started to put the word “race” in scare quotes, calling it a “dangerous fiction. [..] Boas and his circle confronted a bigotry that was scientifically endo

> He started to put the word “race” in scare quotes, calling it a “dangerous fiction. [..] Boas and his circle confronted a bigotry that was scientifically endorsed at the time, and they dismantled it by showing it wasn’t scientific at all; today’s nativists and racists generally don’t even pretend to a scientific respectability” Apply principal component analysis to human DNA, and race pops out [1,2,3]. It seems odd the article wouldn't mention this well-known fact. [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Principal_component_analysis_of_human_genetic_diversity https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Principal_compon... [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Individual-level_human_population_structure2.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Individual-level_hum... [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3D_PCA_plot_of_Xavante.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3D_PCA_plot_of_Xavan...