Race?

Race is not a meaningful concept in science.

On the Non-Existence of Human Races
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0011-3204%28196206%293%3A3%3C279%3AOTNOHR%3E...


Race as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social
Problem Is Real
Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Social
Construction of Race
Audrey Smedley Virginia Commonwealth University
Brian D. Smedley Institute of Medicine
http://www.apa.org/journals/releases/amp60116.pdf

Genetic variation, classification and race
http://shrn.stanford.edu/workshops/revisitingrace/Jorde-Wooding2004.pdf

Intelligence, race, and genetics.

In this article, the authors argue that the overwhelming portion of the literature on intelligence, race, and genetics is based on folk taxonomies rather than scientific analysis.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15641921?dopt=AbstractPlus

Straw Men and Their Followers: The return of biological race
By Evelynn M. Hammonds
Published on: Jun 07, 2006
http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Hammonds/

Changing the paradigm from 'race' to human genome variation
Charmaine D M Royal & Georgia M Dunston
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1454.html

"...with each birth and each death we alter the genetic attributes of human populations and drawing a line around an ephemeral entity like a human race is an exercise in futility and idiocy." —Pat Shipman, The Evolution of Racism

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/abs/ng1439.html;jsessionid=B7D9B128...

Two Questions About Race
By Alan Goodman
Published on: Jun 07, 2006

http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Goodman/

Two Questions About Race

In summary, there is no good scientific reason beyond word length, convenience, and maintenance of the status quo (laziness in short), to continue to racialize human variation.

http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Goodman/

Race and Reification in Science

Even within the category African American, the highly variable phenotype of skin color complicates the hypertension and race thesis. A classic epidemiological study on the topic also found differences within the African American population--with darker-skinned blacks generally having higher mean blood pressure than lighter-skinned blacks. The authors concluded that it was not the color of the skin that produced a direct causal outcome in hypertension, but that darker skin color in the United States is associated with less access to scarce and valued resources of the society. There is a complex feedback loop and interaction effect between phenotype and social practices related to that phenotype (4, 9).

Genetic Structure, Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity, and Confounding in Case-Control Association Studies
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1196372&rendert...

What to make of it? The (Re)emergence of a biological conceptualization of race in health disparities research
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VBF-4N9N01T-1&...



http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/307/5712/1050?ijkey=CrQywbf6JKCIs&...

"The classification into races has proved to be a futile exercise." -- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza--One of the important geneticists of the 20th century
http://www.understandingrace.org/history/science/ancestry_dna.html

A 2002 study[71] further examined the impact of non-IQ factors on income and concluded that an offspring's inherited wealth, race, and schooling are more important as factors in determining income than IQ. ^ The Inheritance of Inequality Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert. The Journal of Economic Perspectives. Volume 16, Number 3, 1 August 2002, pp. 3-30(28)

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/aea/jep/2002/00000016/00000003/art00001

Scientific racism is nothing new. Racist scientists, philosophers, and religious leaders have been telling justifying unnatural social hierarchies for a long time. One group of people is singled out as being less than human

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[th3inquisitiv31]

@petrsakharov Can you give a sound definition of what a “black person” is ???

[th3inquisitiv31]

@TheTypicalGirl Can you give a sound definition of what a “black person” is ???

[th3inquisitiv31]

LET THESE DUMB FATHERFUCKERS KNOW !!!

[th3inquisitiv31]

@PumpingSmashkins can you provide a sound definition of what a "black person" is ???

[PumpingSmashkins]

Oh my goodness, the scientific definition of race has been developed and refined since its conception! Obviously, then, race is a "social construct," because science does not permit refinement! Great video!

[PumpingSmashkins]

gee, a short german shepherd is more different from a tall one than a husky and a german shepherd of equal size...astonishing! obviously absolutely meaningless in dismissing the blatantly obvious reality of racial differences, but astonishing!

[PumpingSmashkins]

The idea that race is nothing but a social construct is so patently absurd that it's pointless to even to begin to refute it in any context, and certainly one such as YouTube comments. What obviously is a social construct is the concept that race is a social construct. Not only that, the very notion does far more to perpetuate racism than if people would simply acknowledge the obvious and easily proven reality of racial differences.

[vbritsi]

This is a perfect example of what happens when leftists go into scientific fields. Their political ideology trumps reality. People who deny race as a "valid scientific concept" are liars and politically motivated charlatans. They misuse the data to mislead others. That is the absolute lowest of the low in terms of vile behavior in a scientist. These people are just as evil as the Nazi racial purity scientists of WW2.