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‘He really was beginning to organise, institutionally organise, the remnants of the pre-war academic scholars who were doing work on eugenics and race.
The lack of public interest reflected how many people assumed they no longer had anything to fear.
The election of Republican President Donald Trump came at the same time as a growth in nationalist sentiment
using people’s gut prejudices and casual observations to undermine trust in mainstream science. If you feel it to be true, it must be.
manipulate science to construct imaginary boundaries to social progress.’
what little we know about human variation can’t be used to dictate how we treat people in the real world.
it can’t be racist if it is a ‘fact’.
Diversity was being celebrated; both the glorious biodiversity of the natural world and the rainbow of cultural and physical diversity in human societies.
‘America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity,’
This isn’t an impartial scholarly discussion.’
‘There are simply no races in humankind,’
