You may recall that in 2019, Angela Saini wrote a book titled Superior: The Return of Race Science – which argued that nefarious claims about biological group differences had been safely put to bed by Science, only to be reanimated by deplorable “scientific racists” in the last few decades. It wasn’t very good.
All both fascinating and disturbing. How can such an attitude, even an orthodoxy, have achieved such importance and influence in what must seem to most outsiders such a short amount of time? Surely, the disciplines directly affected must have been prepared to accept it. When did that preparation begin, and how, and why?
All both fascinating and disturbing. How can such an attitude, even an orthodoxy, have achieved such importance and influence in what must seem to most outsiders such a short amount of time? Surely, the disciplines directly affected must have been prepared to accept it. When did that preparation begin, and how, and why?