Episode 16: Vaccine Patents, Tesla's Travails, and the Persistence of Race Science ft. Angela Saini
The Received Wisdom
Is There Something Deeply Problematic About Population Genetics?
When Superior came out, I wasn't just looking at the past. I was making some accusations of people living now about the way that they were thinking about these ideas in appropriate ways. Around the time that the book came out last summer, there was a feature that I wrote for New Scientist magazine on population genetics. And I was messaged on social media by a couple of population geneticists at Cambridge who took huge exception to what I had written. They basically said to me, we are not the racists here. The racists are those people over there, the white supremacists, the kind of race-realists, the alt-writers,.
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