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Re:Dan Rather: Now, More Than Ever, We Must Stand Up for Sci... by touleier on Monday November 14, 2016 @11:24AM (#12950819)
By the same token, there are hordes of Americans who affect a belief that there are no races, and think any attempt to apply Darwinism to human nature is the quintessence of evil. Liberal Creationists.
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Re:Dan Rather: Now, More Than Ever, We Must Stand Up for Sci... by woofyman on Monday November 14, 2016 @12:55PM (#12951731)
Race is a social construct.

Edit: I'm 50% Ashkenazi, we are prone to Tay-Sachs disease, caused by a genetic mutation. Does that make me a member of a separate race.

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Re:Dan Rather: Now, More Than Ever, We Must Stand Up for Sci... by touleier on Monday November 14, 2016 @02:36PM (#12952559)
Yes, you are therefore a member of a well-defined breeding population (deme) and that membership gives us useful information immediately. Not only do you have a greater chance of getting certain diseases, your group also has higher intelligence, with a mean almost a standard deviation higher than gentiles. If race was arbitrary it would not give us predictive validity of that kind.
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Re:Dan Rather: Now, More Than Ever, We Must Stand Up for Sci... by touleier on Monday November 14, 2016 @01:01PM (#12951791)
Science is a "social construct". As is anything else we talk about. Try telling someone with sickle-cell anemia that race is just a social construct.
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Re:Dan Rather: Now, More Than Ever, We Must Stand Up for Sci... by RandomInteger4 on Monday November 14, 2016 @01:55PM (#12952262)
http://www.hematology.org/Patients/Anemia/Sickle-Cell-Trait....
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