TheOnion: Most Popular College Major By State https://www.theonion.com/most-popular-college-major-by-state-1850739757 #biologicalanthropology #scientificracism #pseudoscience #criminology #physiognomy #phrenology #psychology #education

Notorious race “scientist” Richard Lynn is, once and for all, good and dead. I generally try to avoid celebrating people dying, but this guy might be an exception. For a long time, he was a close colleague of J. Philippe Rushton, who may be more responsible than any other single person for reviving a lot of debunked theories about race and IQ, “breeding strategies”, etc.

Lynn was the editor of arguably the most influential “race science” journal in the world when he died. He was also one of the major sources for the content of ‘The Bell Curve’. A horrible person who claimed the title of “scientific racist” for himself. Fuck that guy, fuck everyone who cites him approvingly, and fuck all of his “research”.

#racescience #scientificracism #richardlynn #lynn #iq #rushton #mankindquarterly

I'm finally watching this excellent video discussion about AI hype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHRbFetqII

I just got to the part where they trash the "Sparks of AGI" paper. Great stuff.

"They can just check if the AI is circumcised."

#AIHype #AGI #ScientificRacism

IT’S TIME TO STOP RACIALIZING BLOOD DONATION

A unified, non-racial approach to #blooddonation is more practical; it avoids further marginalization of Black people; and promotes a culture of inclusiveness rather than separation.

Read here:
https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/its-time-to-stop-racializing-blood-donation-3a1cac39ce0

Or here: https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/its-time-to-stop-racializing-blood-donation/

#racism #race #biology #HealthEquity #Blackhealth #BlackMastodon #blood #othering #inclusion #racebasedmedicine #medicalracism #racisminscience #scientificracism #antiracism

@Wolven

Personally, I thought Stephen J Gould dismantled the very basis of IQ and scientific racism thoroughly in "The Mismeasure of Man". Spearman's g is a statistical artefact.

It seems it is such a useful tool of white supremacy that it cannot be allowed to die.

#AI #ChatGPT #ScientificRacism #Ableism #Eugenics #WhiteSupremacy

@issotm

#Racialism (often "scientific racism" or "race realism" by its adherants) is the idea that humanity can be easily divided into well-defined biological categories ("races") that are both broad and clearly-defined. Racialism implies that these races are substantially physiologically different from each other and that these racial differences strongly determine the abilities and behavior of individuals and peoples.

This #pseudoscience is technically not the same as #racism, which is the belief that one or more of these various groups is "superior" or "inferior" to one or more others, usually in some vague, undefined way. But while racism and racialism are distinct concepts, their respective adherents do overlap a lot more than either would have you believe.

Racialism first developed in the 1700s. It remained virtually unchallenged until the 1930s-1960s, when genetics showed it to be erroneous.

#RationalWiki #scientificracism
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Racialism

"The rise of biosocial criminology has ... sparked alarm among some scholars, who argue that the science is shoddy — and that racist ideas and assumptions animate the field."

New today at Undark: https://undark.org/2023/01/25/criminologists-looking-to-biology-for-insight-stir-a-racist-past/

#science #ScienceMastodon #scientificracism #crime #criminology

"Yerkes declared that ... the tests measured innate intelligence rather than education. “It behooves us to consider their reliability and their meaning, for no one of us as a citizen can afford to ignore the menace of race deterioration”."

The racist past - and present - of standardised tests in the US, by Deborah Blum in Undark.

⚠️ Long read ⚠️

https://race.undark.org/articles/born-of-eugenics-can-standardized-testing-escape-its-past

#LongReads #DeborahBlum #Undark #ScientificRacism #StandardizedTesting #SATs #Education #USA

I haven't read this yet, but Intend to. #scientificracism #paleoanthropology #southAfrica

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03700-w

I haven't read this yet, but Intend to. #scientificracism #paleoanthropology #southAfrica

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03700-w

"What the public is not told is that some mistakes are never corrected. A few are so profound that their effects reverberate through the decades."

Today in Undark's Long Division series, Angela Saini takes a hard look at the long-lasting impact of Wickliffe Draper's money.

https://race.undark.org/articles/drapers-millions-the-philanthropic-wellspring-of-modern-race-science #science #racism #scientificracism

At Undark this week, we've been rolling out The Long Division series, which explores the persistence of race science and how it has shaped medicine, genomics, education, and more. Why does this debunked theory endure and can its effects be overcome?

I hope you check it out: https://race.undark.org #science #race #scientificracism

"Scientists have been transfixed by the question of how, and why, humans differ. Answering these questions ... could help deliver better medicine, social programs, and other benefits.

But now many geneticists are ... confronting an unsettling possibility: that some of their field’s most common practices and conventions may serve to perpetuate the myth of race as a biological category and help fuel scientific #racism."

https://race.undark.org/articles/a-field-at-a-crossroads-genetics-and-racial-mythmaking

#Genetics #ScientificRacism

While it is generally accepted that race is a social construct, in 2022 blood services in countries such as the US, UK and others continue to call specifically for Black blood donors to save Black patients. The unfortunate implication of this practice is to perpetuate the belief that biological race is real and legitimize the troubling ideology of #racescience.

https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/its-time-to-stop-racializing-blood-donation-3a1cac39ce0

https://clarexanthosphd.wordpress.com/2022/05/13/its-time-to-stop-racializing-blood-donation/

#blooddonation #racism #medicalracism #scientificracism #othering #biology #genetics

While it is generally accepted that race is a social construct, in 2022 blood services in countries such as the US, UK and others continue to call specifically for Black blood donors to save Black patients. The unfortunate implication of this practice is to perpetuate the belief that biological race is real and legitimize the troubling ideology of race science.

#blooddonation #racism #medicalracism #scientificracism #othering #racescience

https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/its-time-to-stop-racializing-blood-donation-3a1cac39ce0

https://clarexanthosphd.wordpress.com/2022/05/13/its-time-to-stop-racializing-blood-donation/

It is difficult to fathom how, well into the 21st century, national blood services remain in the dark ages, irresponsibly promoting the idea of race as biology.

#medicalracism #racism #race #blood #scientificracism

https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/its-time-to-stop-racializing-blood-donation-3a1cac39ce0

The Conversation: “People don’t mate randomly – but the flawed assumption that they do is an essential part of many studies linking genes to diseases and traits”

https://theconversation.com/people-dont-mate-randomly-but-the-flawed-assumption-that-they-do-is-an-essential-part-of-many-studies-linking-genes-to-diseases-and-traits-194793

This article should be seen as a shot across the bow to a lot of folks in the #EvoPsych and #physiognomy / #ScientificRacism / "human biodiversity" wings of #pseudoscience, which are beloved by certain #AI researchers. They disregard the world's complexity when that complexity violates their assumptions.

The full story is here.
#EOWison #Rushton #ScientificRacism
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/02/04/more-accusations-about-e-o-wilsons-raciem/

#ScientificRacism #EOwilson #Rushton

"We acknowledge E.O. Wilson’s correspondence with and apparent support of Rushton’s career is hurtful and harmful."

https://eowilsonfoundation.org/e-o-wilson-rushton/

#ScientificRacism #EthicalScience

This article may not have gotten as much attention as it should. Unethical use of genetic data led to a published article and got the author fired from his university.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/racial-pseudoscience-on-the-faculty