Racial Conflict and Scientific Racism
Protests are convulsing Louisville, KY, over the death of Breonna Taylor. How is the legacy of scientific racism reflected in today’s unrest?
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Richard Weikart on How Darwinism Fueled Scientific Racism
Darwin didn’t merely predict racial genocide; he thought it would advance human evolution.
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Cancel Caribou? Another Questionable Tribute at the American Museum of Natural History
The role of science in justifying racism and eugenics is a subject that needs to be opened up wide, not decorously ignored any longer.
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On Chicago’s Ted Williams TV Talk Show, Human Zoos Sparks Discussion of Scientific Racism
One takeaway is that, despite assurances to the contrary, modern evolutionary theory is not easily separated from malign currents in American history, currently exemplified by the Alt-right.
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Documentary Human Zoos Is Screened at Detroit’s African-American History Museum
The film tells how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in what scholars today call “human zoos.”
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Ireland Goes Back to Its Roots
It is a matter of fact — a straightforward scientific fact known since the basics of human reproduction were first understood — that human life begins at fertilization of the egg by the sperm.
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Alt-Right’s Interest in Evolution Makes Sense. An Obsession with Taylor Swift? Much Less So
I heard a promotion on our local NPR station for a report about the alt-right and their dual infatuation with Medieval Europe and pop star Taylor Swift.
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Evolution and the Alt-Right, Continued
While the Confederate cause in the Civil War has been the subject of much chatter, the modern racial right owes far more to Charles Darwin than to Robert E. Lee.
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On Controversial Science, Skepticism Is Now “Social Deviance,” Skeptics Are “Weeds”
Our friend and contributor Denyse O’Leary has a sensitive ear.
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With evolutionary theory holding sway in the media and academia, it’s little wonder we rarely hear about these connections.
… » GoYes, Repudiate Malthus
Says…Michael Shermer, no less?
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New and Old Eugenics United by Rejecting Human Exceptionalism
Buck v. Bell was one of the most pernicious Supreme Court decisions ever written.
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