Read more but only if you like feeling grossed out: http://forward.com/opinion/national/346533/human-biodiversity-the-pseudoscientific-racism-of-the-alt-right/ …
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Replying to @DrGBuckingham @StuartJRitchie
I like it when people learn things, I'm just sorry you had to learn this.
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Replying to @o_guest @StuartJRitchie
Well I'm not naïve to the viewpoint or the research. Just didn't know what people called it these days.
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Replying to @DrGBuckingham @o_guest
This one sounds much more like "real science", so it can go under the radar a bit.
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Replying to @StuartJRitchie @DrGBuckingham
Well, depends whose radar but yes, it's clearly euphemistically named to appeal to a wider part of the right-wing.
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Racist people tend to love science that backs up their claims regardless of what the scientists intended their work to be used for.
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Much like nuclear weapons or nuclear power, the research is often in some way agnostic to the end use.
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Although of course a lot HBD "research" is not actually research — often carried out by known cranks.
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