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Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer
Birney, Ewan; Raff, Jennifer; Rutherford, Adam; Scally, Aylwyn http://ewanbirney.com/2019/10/race-genetics-and-pseudoscience-an-explainer.html
Publisher: Bioinformatician at large
Date Written: 24/10/2019
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
A small number of researchers, mostly well outside of the scientific mainstream, have seized upon some of the new findings and methods in human genetics, and are part of a social-media cottage-industry that disseminates and amplifies low-quality or distorted science, sometimes in the form of scientific papers, sometimes as internet memes – under the guise of euphemisms such as 'race realism' or ‘human biodiversity'. Their arguments, which focus on racial groupings and often on the alleged genetically-based intelligence differences between them, have the semblance of science, with technical-seeming tables, graphs, and charts.
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