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To: Pharmboy
The short answer is that "race" as a taxonomic classification predates the linkage between genotype and phenotype that even now is incompletely understood; hence there's a whole lot of intellectual garbage that is going to have to be culled from the field before it again becomes respectable.

It can be done - chemistry was eventually extracted from and divorced from alchemy, astronomy from astrology. But what to keep, and what to discard will be a decision process that will be hampered constantly by vestiges of racism and accusations of its further promotion. I wish the fellow luck.

9 posted on 10/25/2005 8:16:24 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Great comment. And, the Nazis set back genetic research a looooong time.


11 posted on 10/25/2005 8:21:38 PM PDT by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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