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Topic: Scientific racism

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- mchawking
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Scientific racism
OP - December 17, 2011, 04:37 AM

I know this topic has been listed as psuedoscientific but I see a lot of the non-likeable type using stuff that comes under this category. What are your thoughts? I know that Stephen Jay Gould spoke out against it and it might be in the book titled 'The Mismeasure of Man' but what eloquent argument is out there? (not implying that none exists, I just don't know of any) I mean, the kind of eloquence you'd see in Demon Haunted World against psuedoscience and ignorance. I don't know whether this has been discussed or not and what the conclusions are on the nature and nurture debate alongside what it might contribute towards criminology and ethnicities.

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Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests."
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- Homer
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Re: Scientific racism
Reply #1 - December 17, 2011, 07:08 AM

Biologically there is very very little difference among Homo sapiens, everyone isnt just the same species....they are the same sub species (Homo sapiens sapiens). Any "racial science" is hokum, as there is slim to no actual support for a biological concept of "race".

Ethnicity is not biological, it is a cultural construct (while race is also, race implies a biological factor). You can actually even choose you ethnicity if you'd like to. If you are looking for trends there, they will be cultural (for example Chinese people dont like rice because there is an actual biological factor that promotes their rice eating.....)

So I guess what I'm saying is, its not scientific from the get go, because the premise is faulty.

The foundation of superstition is ignorance, the
superstructure is faith and the dome is a vain hope. Superstition
is the child of ignorance and the mother of misery.
-Robert G. Ingersoll (1898)

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