[Pharmboy]

Old Nick Wade and the Times are now finally jumping on genes a bit--even when it comes to "races." The truth shall set you free, boys.

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[LiteKeeper]

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[Pharmboy]

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[#3Fan]

Kennewick bump.

[blam]

Kennewick Man DNA study here

[Cicero]

Evidently Franz Boas falsified his findings in order to argue a politically correct view of human nature.

Boas was also largely responsible for the movement in cultural anthropology that led to Margaret Mead, Jean-Paul Sartre, and other who argued that there is no such thing as "human nature" as such, but only various human cultures, which can be constructed and deconstructed at will. In some cultures incest and sex with children are tabu, in others, they are perfectly OK, according to this view.

In other words, Boas was a major progenitor of politically correct postmodernism and current relativistic views of morality.

Mead's "Coming of Age in Samoa," with its bogus science, had a major impact on the counter-cultural revolution of the 60s. In an important way, Boas was responsible for that whole sorry movement that has weakened and corrupted western civilization in Europe and America.

[A_perfect_lady]

Check this out.

[WoofDog123]

I have always wondered how one can scientifically argue that the different races don't also have other genetic characteristics associated with their grouping; the pc scientists would have me believe there is only 1 gene uniquely different between whites, asians, and blacks, and that all the rest of each races' gene pool is identical stuff. It is insane that this has to be taken to be a racist view, or somehow denigrating to whatever aggrieved party. Brave New World has nothing on some of the pc indoctrination passing for science.

[philetus]

Is it a NASCAR race?

[decimon]

Phrenology

[aristeides]

The rejection of race was ideologically motivated. Ideological science is usually wrong.