The white supremacist who drove 200 miles to a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket and opened fire, killing 10 people, had posted a manifesto. Most of the people he killed were Black. The manifesto’s 180 pages cited not only racist conspiracy theories, but also scientific research on behavioral genetics. The research focused on finding heritable differences in IQ and propensity to violence between racial groups.
Scientists have to recognize that their research can be weaponized. They need to think hard not only about how their findings might be misinterpreted or misused, but also about the point of even conducting the studies they do of differences among racial groups. Above all that, scientists need to take an active role in fighting both violence and white supremacy.
For one thing, they must be frank and vocal about the weakness of studies that purport to find correlations between race and differences in traits like intelligence or propensity violence. This includes methodological weaknesses like treating IQ as a good proxy for intelligence, or treating “race” as something with clear genetic grounding.
There’s a further question scientists ought to ask themselves when reflecting on why they study the scientific questions they do: What will the knowledge I’m building be good for? How could it be put to use? Do scientists imagine that a finding of genetic differences in intelligence among racial groups would be used to drive more school funding to Black and brown communities, or as a justification to focus school funding on white communities? Or that a finding of genetic differences in...
God I’m so tired a political SA
These geniuses try to convince you disparity does equal discrimination. So much science. A magazine I used to love is a complete sh*t-show of wokeness.
So an article warning against those who cherry pick science to promote their bias, has people upset and claiming those biases are legitimate. Politics is the art of confusing people as to who is sincere and who is dishonest. Only a fool chooses it over science.
Why are so many racist flooding the page? They post this on 4chan or something?!
CRT is dogma and unscientific. It concludes racism and looks for evidence. It is like creationism - the answer is always god. Disparities result from multiple factors. Concluding racism is unfalsifiable, political, activism. It has no place in science.
Lies and propaganda you speak to counter what would fix the problem. Any study done well will root out its own biases. None of which disparage Black people except those used by Black people against themselves, each other and everybody else.
The shooter in Buffalo also said that being locked up due to covid restrictions caused him to be radicalized online, but I guess that doesn't fit your narrative so there's no point in mentioning that. He also wrote the most about his weapons/armor, but just go ahead and 🍒🍒
Done following SA. Wanted science no more bulsh$& politics. Bye.
That seems like a publisher's responsibility to me.
Nothing like a predetermined outcome to make your science ever so much better..
That can go both ways, imagine some ethnicity being more at risk for some disease/condition and Wokeness 'ideals' freaking out to touch it with a ten-foot pole, who loses ?
Pig rolls up on a brother and creates an incident and suddenly black people are criminals. Shakespeare was right. Kill all the lawyers.
Race__Realist The neo-Marxist Left is fundamentally antiWhite. Any evidence suggesting that Black dysfunction is not the result of White “racism” is systematically discredited by the Left.
“Ignore the evidence and ignore your lying eyes” is the subtext of this one.
Also woke supremacy
Gay
Have you run out of serious topics to discuss.
I can almost guarantee the results will be that they found systemic racism and white ppl are too blame. It’s Scientists job to reveal the truth not narratives for leftist’s
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Interesting article.
Now do the inherent biases of studies used to disparage White (capital W is a thing, apparantly?) people. Oh wait, that'll never happen.
The responsibility of scientists is to do science and not engage in politics. It is better if you post news on science and let politicians deal with identity, race, and gender politics. We want the best doctors, not white or black, for example.
But that's what happens..remember the 2020's nature paper which suggested early on that India might be keeping Covid-19 at bay because of filthy lifesyle.
Be scientists, not politicians or BLM activists.
It's scientific to chill out on early Saturday mornings on a holiday weekend. Have a cup of joe, watch cartoons.
More out of touch nonsense from so called scientists. Good cure for insomnia though.
I used to have respect for Scientific American and then I followed your Twitter...
Bet his doesn’t apply to white FULK
So we don’t follow the science if the data and conclusions might make some uncomfortable?
Race science leads to genocide
This is Science in 2022-- dont do anything that may offend Blackpeople ... who are offended by EVERYTHING. 😛😂 Lol
IRIS_EPO Stick to earthquakes IRIS_EPO
Yes it must only be used to advance Black supremacy 👌
Are you sure?!
Junk! What is this parody?
Science should also not be used for political purposes.
Wight supremacy !! 👍🤙😮🤔😎😁🤪🤪🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
, do you have any comment on the caliber of responses, that you tend to get on social media? Do you have a comment on the fact, that profit-driven information will never account for mis-information, because mis-information is profitable?
Science should not be manipulated to further any ideology, not just “white supremacy.”. Apply your principles consistently and get out of the wokeness business.
scientists can not prevent how science findings are used
It appears as if SA is veering away from science and going woke. It may be the last thing I see from you.
Follow the science no matter how bad it makes you feel.
It is still shocking that till this day they are still manipulating and taking advantage of them. Science should stick to the facts and not be bias.
Incentive = money incentives
To fear that the science could be misinterpreted is a failing on the part of education AND honesty within the system. Once incentives creep into a scientific system, the system collapses.
Science also needs to be honest, not driven by ideology because the ideologies don’t stand the test of time, whereas the scientific data represent facts that were found within the parameters of the experiment/tests etc.
If the science is wrong, do a study and prove it. Go back and retest the data. Show how the previous analysis was flawed. That’s a glaring problem in much of modern science. Often, we operate based on flawed science b/c the incentives aren’t there for people to retest data.
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