[Pharmboy]

Race is an imperfect construct, but a useful one nonetheless. It allows us to address the health needs of groups of people who share more genes with each other than with outsiders. The new genetic data will allow us to define populations in more precise ways.

But now, we know that Northern Euros suffer more from (among other conditions) cystic fibrosis and pernicious anemia; Jews of Eastern Euro origin from (among others) Tay-Sachs disease; and African Americans from (among others) sickle cell disease and prostate cancer. This knowledge saves time and lives.

These APA people are like flat Earthers hanging on to their old dogma in the face of mounting data refuting their "environment is everything" BS.

[Pharmboy]

Thought you folks might be interested in this arm waving...

[handy old one]

New bywords Genetic and Genome profiling. Are these more P.C.??

[EdReform]

FYI ping

[Gondring]

You hit the same points I would have raised. The "no-race" crowd is simply "politics" over the true utility of science. I wonder if any of them see differences in breeds of dogs...or if they think it's not useful to note that dachsunds are different from St. Bernards (and don't anybody dare take my comments out of context and claim I'm saying anything I'm not :-).

[Van Jenerette]

...reading.