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Inlägg #1: Postat: 2005-10-23 00:31:00
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stålis |
I kopiering i ny tråd längre upp av Malin Sandströms vetenskapsnytt.blogspot.com finner ni redogörelse för de fynd om alleler som Derbyshire kommenterar.
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Inlägg #2: Postat: 2005-10-23 00:39:00
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stålis |
Det obehagliga, som Derbyshire påpekar, med vetenskapens allt snabbare framsteg är att fynden kolliderar med politiska dogmer, som samhället ville att alla skall tro på. Men inte nog med det, man kriminaliserar de som ifrågasätterna dogmerna.
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Inlägg #3: Postat: 2005-10-23 00:40:00
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stålis |
Vetenskapliga nyheter som inte bekräftar dogmerna tolereras bara inom en begränsad krets av "ansvarskännande". Spridning av dem ses med starkt ogillande.
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Inlägg #4: Postat: 2005-10-23 00:44:00
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stålis |
Derbyshire i National Review: “. . .we have bumped up against the R-word — race. This is the bitter paradox of human genetic studies. In seeking to understand what defines us, we cannot help learning about what divides us. Coming to terms with this paradox will not be easy. The results now emerging from the labs are prompting the first murmurs of a debate that will become loud and rancorous over the next few years.”
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Inlägg #5: Postat: 2005-10-23 00:45:00
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stålis |
“But . . . but . . . but . . . haven’t talking heads on TV science programs and in the pages of respectable newspapers been telling us for years that there are absolutely no significant genetic differences whatever between human groups defined by common ancestry? Yes; but you see, they have been lying through their teeth. A geneticist I spoke to when preparing this article put it more diplomatically: “Statements like that are politically driven.””
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Inlägg #6: Postat: 2005-10-23 00:46:00
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stålis |
"Of course, nobody ever supposed that to mean that we are all equally tall, equally strong, or equally clever; but if different human groups, of different common ancestry, have different frequencies of genes influencing things like, for goodness’ sake, brain development, then our cherished national dream of a well-mixed and harmonious meritocracy with all groups equally represented in all niches, at all levels, may be unattainable."
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Inlägg #7: Postat: 2005-10-23 00:48:00
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stålis |
"Some of the truths now beginning to emerge from the human sciences will strike us as very unpleasant indeed. Some of them will force us to hard thinking about our nation, our ideals, and our traditional
boundless optimism towards the potentialities of human beings."
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