- 28 Apr 2019 02:44
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Race Is a Social Construct, Scientists Argue
Racial categories are weak proxies for genetic diversity and need to be phased out
More than 100 years ago, American sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois was concerned that race was being used as a biological explanation for what he understood to be social and cultural differences between different populations of people. He spoke out against the idea of "white" and "black" as discrete groups, claiming that these distinctions ignored the scope of human diversity.
Science would favor Du Bois. Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning. And yet, you might still open a study on genetics in a major scientific journal and find categories like "white" and "black" being used as biological variables.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... sts-argue/
The last time I saw a PhD support race, I checked out what the PhD was in, and it was in Philosophy.
Suntzu wrote:Only about half the scientist believe there is such a thing as race.I doubt it's even close to half.
Race Is a Social Construct, Scientists Argue
Racial categories are weak proxies for genetic diversity and need to be phased out
More than 100 years ago, American sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois was concerned that race was being used as a biological explanation for what he understood to be social and cultural differences between different populations of people. He spoke out against the idea of "white" and "black" as discrete groups, claiming that these distinctions ignored the scope of human diversity.
Science would favor Du Bois. Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning. And yet, you might still open a study on genetics in a major scientific journal and find categories like "white" and "black" being used as biological variables.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... sts-argue/
Suntzu wrote:These are mostly from the hard sciences such as biology, genetics, etc.,False. Genetics and the "hard sciences" refute the very idea of race.
The last time I saw a PhD support race, I checked out what the PhD was in, and it was in Philosophy.
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson