The unwelcome revival of ‘#race #science’ | News | The Guardian
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One of the people behind the revival of race science was, not long ago, a mainstream figure. In 2014, Nicholas Wade, a former #New_York_Times science correspondent, wrote what must rank as the most toxic book on race science to appear in the last 20 years. In A Troublesome Inheritance, he repeated three race-science shibboleths: that the notion of “race” corresponds to profound biological differences among groups of humans; that human brains evolved differently from race to race; and that this is supported by different racial averages in IQ scores.
