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