Posted on 06/02/2019 12:09:52 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
In 2003, the anthropologist Duana Fullwiley spent six months observing a team of biomedical research scientists. The team wanted to find out whether genetic variation could affect how different people respond to drugs, and to do so, they recruited a group of racially and ethnically diverse research subjects. They were a diverse team themselves, with good intentions to address a worthy problem—it’s well known that different races suffer from health problems at different rates and can respond differently to treatments. If they could trace these discrepancies to genetic differences between races, the team reasoned, they could explain, and perhaps start to resolve, these health disparities.
After observing their work, the anthropologist asked each of them a simple question: How would you define race?
“You know—probably I haven’t given that as much thought as I should have,” said the team’s lead scientist. Others fumbled, paused, or dodged the question. When pushed, one researcher acknowledged that racial categories didn’t mean that much but in the same breath insisted that defining races genetically was the way to go. Not one could offer a coherent answer.
British science journalist Angela Saini tells this story in her exceptional and damning new book, Superior: The Return of Race Science. “Race was the entire premise upon which they were doing their research, but they were unable to tell her what it was,” writes Saini. “Their work instead seemed to rest upon a hope that if they just persisted, they would eventually come to find meaning in these categories. What they couldn’t yet define would then be defined. Somehow it would become real.”
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Yup; something to do with the shape of the red blood cells and the amount of hemoglobin, not a doctor so I don’t really know how it is supposed to work but apparently it does.
Supposedly a sickle cell person can get malaria but the malaria organism can’t really get a good hold on them, so it isn’t nearly as lethal as it would be in most people.
>> the anthropologist asked each of them a simple question: How would you define race?
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>> Not one could offer a coherent answer.
The fabricating author is an idiot.
Yeab they conflate race and culture.
That’s the only way to get PC results.
Human race....
And if UFOs are real, we might get to define an alien race...
And like nearly all people, they appreciate a free ride (scraps at the dinner table in your case).
There will be today in the USA: not like 75 years ago.
“The HUMAN RACE only does two things really well;”
You forgot one:
Feed.
It’s one of the three biological imperatives humans have. They all start with the letter F.
Feed.
F***.
Fight.
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