I didn't read the paper particularly thoroughly, but there is a real threat here. Governments love to "follow the science" when implementing authoritarian polic

I didn't read the paper particularly thoroughly, but there is a real threat here. Governments love to "follow the science" when implementing authoritarian policies, and if there is a body of psudoscientific literature law enforcement will with high likelihood use it as cover for time-honoured traditions of eyeballing people and judging them based on how they look. It is important to resist that dynamic at every level, so it is probably worth supporting the papers authors in pointing it out. The risk of pseudoscience taking on a racial tinge and leaking out into the real world is always present.