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Please change the category of "pseudo-science" to something of an opinion. This is because although this science can be viewed as hurtful, the claims made in this article are false(that it is proven pseudo-science). It is considered quite a mainstream opinion within the intelligence science community. | |||
Many noble prize winners such as James Watson (https://www.wired.com/2007/10/is-james-watson/), William Shockley(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAszZr3SkEs) and many more agree on heritable intelligence differences among races. On top of this, despite social pressures to no longer study racial differences, modern Havard Professor of genetics David Reich (One of Nature's top 10, winner of many scientific awards) comes to the same consensus. (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/opinion/sunday/genetics-race.html) | |||
Furthermore, 52 university professors in intelligence and allied fields signed the 1994 document, 'Mainstream Science on Intelligence'(http://www.intelligence.martinsewell.com/Gottfredson1997.pdf), which concludes various statements such as heritable differences of IQ among racial groups. This document then sparked mass controversy among the media, prompting the American Psychological Association to issue an urgent documented statement known as "Intelligence: Known and Unknown", which reaffirms the stance that there is no consensus if racial IQ gaps are either genetic or environmental, but rather debated. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232430439_Intelligence_Knowns_and_Unknowns) No such authoritative scientific statement has been made since, therefore indicating the inaccuracy of this article that "scientific racism" is "pseudoscience" and disproven by the scientific community. It is still in question. | |||
On top of this, there is still some modern research supporting racial differences, such as IQ differences and general differences among brain structures. | |||
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/comments/S0960-9822(15)00671-5 | |||
https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jensen30years.pdf | |||
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016028960200137X | |||
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289619301904 | |||
In 2019-20, a large survey of intelligence experts was conducted and found that the vast majority of intelligence experts believe that the media inaccurately portrays the reality of intelligence-related science. (Hence google presents opinionated articles giving false statements about books like the ‘Bell Curve’) Most experts also believed that black-white IQ differences were partially genetic. | |||
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289619301886 | |||
The evidence used to claim that "scientific racism" is no longer science, is the commonly criticized booked "The Mismeasure of Man" by Stephan Jay Gould. This book was published in 1984 (after much of the evidence I have stated) and was heavily criticized as being completely unscientific. (http://www.debunker.com/texts/jensen.html) On top of this, Gould was found to have completely fabricated many parts of his book. (https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/science/14skull.html) | |||
Suggested changes, reasons for are above: | |||
1. Either remove or rename this article. "Race realism" would be a more appropriate name as it is natural. It is the belief of racial differences to explain socio-economic outcomes, it is an ideology. This article should merely state the hard evidence in regard to this topic instead of falsely claiming it as "racism" and "pseudoscience". | |||
2. Include both sides of this scientific debate. | |||
3. Remove the claim it is "pseudo-science" as this is a disputed topic even today. It is not "pseudo-science." This is dishonest. ] (]) 05:47, 4 August 2020 (UTC) |
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Scientific vs. biological racism discussion at Talk:Cultural racism
Please note this discussion: Talk:Cultural_racism#'Biological_racism'_versus_'Scientific_racism'. Biological racism has redirected to Scientific racism since 2006. Yesterday, I added the term to the lead. LaTeeDa (talk) 13:59, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
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Unbalanced section: Carl Linnaeus
I’ve gone ahead and added that the section describing Carl Linnaeus’s work on taxonomy lends undue weight to certain viewpoints. In particular, the section reads like a defense of Linnaeus’s racial theory, with several scholars cited as essentially saying, “well, he wasn’t being that racist.” This is, in my limited research, in contradiction with consensus from race scholars regarding his Systema. I’ll consider revising this myself, but I urge editors with more specialized knowledge of this field to do so before me.
TritonsRising (talk) 08:48, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
- I'v tried to engulf myself in this topic since this recently debate, my view is that indeed a lot of schoolars putting emphasis on Linnaeus influence, but that part of what some of them claim is factually wrong. Per example it is common to say Linnaeus was "first" to classify man into "races". However, as far as I can read, Linnaeus never talked about race but about "varities" (you could ofc argue this is conceptually race but under another name, but I think that should be excplicitly stated then). Others had in fact talked about human races before him (thinking especially of François Bernier 1684 - "Nouvelle division de la terre par les différentes espèces ou races l'habitant") and in quite a similar or even more biological manner than him.
- So I would say, yes add the claims from ppl (I got a reference from Renato Mazzolini I could add), but no reason to remove the differeing opinions on the meaning of what he actually wrote, because I don't how there is any kind of consensus among scholars in this question.
- Ernst.T.A. (talk) 22:24, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
I suggest reading up on Swedish sources, such as the professor of history of ideas Gunnar Broberg. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zakister (talk • contribs) 12:16, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
- Will try to look at the Broberg book for references. As a general comment (not to Zakister): In the meanwhile I don't think it is motivated to make comments such as "There are disagreements about the basis for Linnaeus' human taxa, which there should not be", this seems like a personal opinion and not encyclopedic content. Removing it for now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ernst.T.A. (talk • contribs) 12:20, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
LOOKING FOR CONSENSUS ON ADDING A SECTION ABOUT SCIENTIFIC RACISM IN BRAZIL
Dear colleagues, Two editors are removing my contribution to this page about "Scientific racism in Brazil" without checking the scientific and historical accuracy of its contents, just because I quote myself (in a work reviewed by experts and published in a prestigious scientific journal) as well as I quote many other references which are not my own work. I cannot understand how come this editor just deleted the section on "scientific racism in Brazil" without checking that THE WHOLE SECTION was entirely taken from a doubled blind checked paper which has been reviewed and published in one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the History of Biology: the Journal of the History of Biology. All the content in the section I included and the many historical references I quoted (apart from my own work) were product of serious research and had been published in a prestigious scientific journal after been reviewed by experts before publication. My interest was not self citing -as these editors claim- but just supplying[REDACTED] with good scientific contents in an aspect that had not received any attention within the entry "scientific racism": scientific racism in Brazil. Regarding my self citation, the work I quote is the only article written in English which has passed through expert scientific revision that you can find in Google Scholar and other scientific libraries including the issue "Scientific Racism in Brazil" explicitly in its title. Thereafter, I guess it's contents are especially appropriate for this page and that work is really worthy to be quoted it in this page. Not for self promotion, but in order to contribute to the diffusion of accurate knowledge about this particular topic! And I repeat: in the section which was unfairly deleted I QUOTED MANY OTHER HISTORICAL SOURCES WHICH ARE NOT MY OWN WORK! I hope that other editors in this page can check that the whole section I included is based on serious research and that it is worthy to be included in this page. In the following lines, I include the section as it appeared before it was inappropriately deleted. Thank you for your help! The section is the following:
- === Scientific Racism and Racial Policies in Brazil === ==
During the second half of the nineteenth century, different forms and degrees of racism penetrated biological discourses about human diversity in Brazil. Protected under the theoretical and rhetorical apparatus of the natural sciences, it was precisely their scientific status which provided these ethnocentric discourses with the greatest legitimacy in the Brazilian society. Thus, biology was (mis)used as a formidable symbolic apparatus for the naturalization of Brazilian social inequalities between different ethnic groups. Of course, it was not nineteenth century biology that invented racism in Brazil or Latin America. Ideas about the inferiority of the African People, the degeneration of the Indians and their mixed descendants, etc. had appeared long before in American history. Brazilian racism was not created by science, but at the end of the nineteenth century, it was absorbed and recreated into a new form of modern ideology by natural sciences. Scientific discourses in human biology, anthropology, evolutionary theory, craniometrics, obstetrics, psychiatry, etc., became, in many cases, perfect theoretical instruments for the legitimation of racial hierarchies after the abolition of slavery. In different moments along the nineteenth century, biology was invoked to justify the expulsion of indigenous people from their native lands, or to foresee their extinction—along with that of Brazilian blacks and some mestiços- as a natural consequence of Darwinian inter-racial competition and sexual selection. Biology also served as an ideological weapon for the legitimation of racially biased immigration laws. Brain science was invoked to promote the application of different legal codes for each race, adapted to the supposed innate differences in the mental capacities of the different ethnic groups. Biological discourses were used to defend different forms of social programs, intended to improve the biological characteristics of the Brazilian population, making it ‘‘whiter’’ (which at the time was synonymous for ‘‘more intelligent’’ and ‘‘better’’) Finally, human biology, combined with physical anthropology and legal medicine, were misused to stigmatize blacks and mestiços as degenerate human breeds, as well as potential innate criminals, such as in the work of Raimundo Nina Rodrigues . Immediately after the arrival of evolutionism at Brazilian universities, many scientists adopted polygenic models of human evolution, in an attempt to naturalize the social inequalities that the country had inherited from its colonial past. At the end of the nineteenth century, some of the best scientific institutions in the country, such as the medical School of Bahia, considered perfectly scientific to distinguish white and black people as different human species. For many Brazilian white scientists, this biological myth was, at those times, ‘‘the truth, based on the study of comparative anatomy, of embryological development, as well as on what is observed in the domains of phylogeny’’ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juan M.S. Arteaga (talk • contribs) 22:20, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
- By 'a prestigious scientific journal' you mean Journal of the History of Biology, (with an impact factor < 1), correct? How many times has your paper been cited? - MrOllie (talk) 22:42, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
- of course Journal of the History of Biology is a prestigious scientific journal in the field of the History of Biology! Are you familiar with impact factors and citation rates in the humanities? The paper has been quoted by at least by 5 different authors in different reviewed papers since 2017. So what is the impact factor needed to add some content in wikipedia? Regarding the rest of the content that you have not deleted in this page, has it been reviewed by experts and published in high impact-factor scientific journals? your criticisms make no sense and they do not relate to the accuracy of the references and contents of the section, which should be our main focus here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juan M.S. Arteaga (talk • contribs) 23:11, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
- I'm familiar enough to know that an impact factor of less than one isn't the hallmark of a prestigious journal, even in lower citation fields. I think you'll have more success here if you tone it down, you're not going to convince anyone by overstating your claims. As to your suggestion of focus: Accuracy isn't the end-all for inclusion on Misplaced Pages. Per WP:UNDUE, for example, we also need manage the prominence of particular views. A whole section based on a recently published paper in an out of the way journal with only a handful of citations would be an example of undue weight.- MrOllie (talk) 02:29, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
References
- Juanma Sánchez Arteaga. "Biological Discourses on Human Races and Scientific Racism in Brazil (1832–1911)." Journal of the History of Biology 50.2 (2017): 267-314.
- Ihering, Hermann von. 1911. A questão dos Indios no Brasil, Revista do Museu Paulista. São Paulo: Typographia do Diario Official.
- Lacerda, João B de. 1911. The métis, or half-breeds, of Bazil, in Spiller, Gustave (ed.),Papers on inter-racial problems. London: P.S. King and Son, pp. 377–382.
- >Oliveira, João B. de Sa´ . 1985. Craneometria comparada das espécies humanas na Bahia. Bahia: Litho-Typographia de J.G. Tourinho.
- Rodrigues, Raimundo Nina. 1938 (first ed. 1894). As raças humanas e a Responsabilidade Penal no Brasil. São Paulo: Editora Nacional.
- Juanma Sánchez Arteaga et al. "The issue of race in the work of Domingos Guedes Cabral." História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos 23 (2016): 33-50.
- Lacerda, João B de. 1911. The me´ tis, or half-breeds, of Bazil, in Spiller, Gustave (ed.), Papers on inter-racial problems. London: P.S. King and Son, pp. 377–382
- Raimundo Nina Rodrigues. 1899. Métissage, dégénérescence et crime. Lyon: A. Stock & Cie
- Juanma Sánchez Arteaga et al. "The issue of race in the work of Domingos Guedes Cabral." História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos 23 (2016): 33-50.
- Oliveira, João B. de Sa´ . 1985. Craneometria comparada das espe´cies humanas na Bahia. Bahia: Litho-Typographia de J.G. Tourinho., p. 5.
I added the following comprehensive Misplaced Pages discussion article, History of the race and intelligence controversy,, which was removed. Why? Arodb (talk) 20:37, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
History of the race and intelligence controversy
I added the following comprehensive Misplaced Pages discussion article, History of the race and intelligence controversy,, which was removed. Why? Arodb (talk) 20:37, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
- The problem was not with the content but with its placement at the top of the article (as stated in my edit summary). In any case I just added History of the race and intelligence controversy to the "See also" section for you. I hope this resolves the issue. Generalrelative (talk) 20:45, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
Section on Darwin
This seems garbled and incoherent in parts. It looks like there may be some kind of tussle going on involving creationists and their opposition. I have no axe to grind on this either way, but could someone please clarify the discussion. (See e.g. the reference to "quote mine.") Thanks Be-nice:-) (talk) 14:09, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
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Change "he did not established" to "he did not establish". 2804:14D:AC83:4F70:E5D0:AC09:D367:503F (talk) 17:20, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
Done. NightHeron (talk) 18:00, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
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Please change the category of "pseudo-science" to something of an opinion. This is because although this science can be viewed as hurtful, the claims made in this article are false(that it is proven pseudo-science). It is considered quite a mainstream opinion within the intelligence science community.
Many noble prize winners such as James Watson (https://www.wired.com/2007/10/is-james-watson/), William Shockley(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAszZr3SkEs) and many more agree on heritable intelligence differences among races. On top of this, despite social pressures to no longer study racial differences, modern Havard Professor of genetics David Reich (One of Nature's top 10, winner of many scientific awards) comes to the same consensus. (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/opinion/sunday/genetics-race.html)
Furthermore, 52 university professors in intelligence and allied fields signed the 1994 document, 'Mainstream Science on Intelligence'(http://www.intelligence.martinsewell.com/Gottfredson1997.pdf), which concludes various statements such as heritable differences of IQ among racial groups. This document then sparked mass controversy among the media, prompting the American Psychological Association to issue an urgent documented statement known as "Intelligence: Known and Unknown", which reaffirms the stance that there is no consensus if racial IQ gaps are either genetic or environmental, but rather debated. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232430439_Intelligence_Knowns_and_Unknowns) No such authoritative scientific statement has been made since, therefore indicating the inaccuracy of this article that "scientific racism" is "pseudoscience" and disproven by the scientific community. It is still in question.
On top of this, there is still some modern research supporting racial differences, such as IQ differences and general differences among brain structures. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/comments/S0960-9822(15)00671-5 https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jensen30years.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016028960200137X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289619301904
In 2019-20, a large survey of intelligence experts was conducted and found that the vast majority of intelligence experts believe that the media inaccurately portrays the reality of intelligence-related science. (Hence google presents opinionated articles giving false statements about books like the ‘Bell Curve’) Most experts also believed that black-white IQ differences were partially genetic. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289619301886
The evidence used to claim that "scientific racism" is no longer science, is the commonly criticized booked "The Mismeasure of Man" by Stephan Jay Gould. This book was published in 1984 (after much of the evidence I have stated) and was heavily criticized as being completely unscientific. (http://www.debunker.com/texts/jensen.html) On top of this, Gould was found to have completely fabricated many parts of his book. (https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/science/14skull.html)
Suggested changes, reasons for are above: 1. Either remove or rename this article. "Race realism" would be a more appropriate name as it is natural. It is the belief of racial differences to explain socio-economic outcomes, it is an ideology. This article should merely state the hard evidence in regard to this topic instead of falsely claiming it as "racism" and "pseudoscience". 2. Include both sides of this scientific debate. 3. Remove the claim it is "pseudo-science" as this is a disputed topic even today. It is not "pseudo-science." This is dishonest. ObjectiveTruthIsImportant (talk) 05:47, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
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