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So modern biological theory of race must avoid the hubris (nothing in social science has explanatory power that was ascribed to race) and ties to mass murder, while seeing what can be built upon new basis in modern genetics. Normal science would consist in explaining heritability
Ok I'm done, that's what I reckon is a self-understanding that would make sense to, and is endorsable by, a modern proponent of biological theories of race (well the ones who ain't Nazis! I presume they're not much interested anyway). How'd I do?
I think I need help clarifying the question(s). Are you asking if you got the history right? Or are you asking if your analysis of what normal science would (should?) do is right? Both? (I won’t have answers. Just trying to clarify the question(s). Thx for posting this!)
Ah I think its more diffuse: is this a self-understanding of the history that a non-Nazi modern proponent of modern biological theory of race could endorse? Or is likely to endorse? Something like that, it's a vague question. Sorry!
I suspect that many (most?) such people will *think* of themselves and of science more generally as outside history in some important sense. The result being that the history will not be part of their self-understanding at all. "Just following the data." Or some such.
Maybe in general, but I think that's hard to maintain in this case, as one is frequently going to have the history of racial science thrown in one's face as (1) part of a pessimistic meta-induction and (2) part of a political argument against funding it. One has to say something.
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