People fixated on finding biological bases for racial differences appear more interested in the racism than the science. Arguments in online social media seem to involve people for whom demonstrations of genetic or behavioral differences being evidence for racial categories are the absorbing passion of their lives; these are people who are invigorated by animosity. This is a difficult landscape to navigate, because the vast majority of scientists abandoned the scientific validity of race many years ago, and as a result, very few people in genetics study questions specifically of race. Only the
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