PG9
- Science is not exempt from racism
- The study of human diversity and human origin concerns race and evolution
- Now understood very differently than how they were previously
- Plasticity: the reactivity + adaptability of the body
- Niche construction: the relations between the environment + species
- Epigenetics + culture: non-genetic modes of inheritance
- Race was once considered a fundamental unit of the human species
- Creationism is the opposite of evolution
- THE PARADOX OF SCIENCE
- Creationism + racism = outmoded ideologies
- If you use creationist ideas in science, you are ostracized, but if you use racist ideas in science, it isn't seen as quite so bad
- Science and racism can co-exist and that is a problem
PG10
- Science is considered racist when scientists who evoke racist ideas are able to thrive institutionally
- J. Philippe Rushton:
- Respected psychologist
- Herrnstein and Murray's The Bell Curve - argued in 1994 that IQ is largely genetically determined + sets one's intellectual fate + differs across different demographics in the American public
- Cited more than 20 of Rushton's papers
- Racist and just wrong
- Pseudo-scientific argument that cherrypicked from a variety of data
- Rushton believed that there were three kinds of people from the Old World:
- African people who had high reproductive rates + low intelligence
- Asian people who has low sex drive + high intelligence
- European people who were a happy medium
- This was a man who thrived as a highly respected scholar
PG11
- Tons of component scholars praised and cited his work
- There was a place in academia for someone who argued that "Africans" had low intelligence