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John Lake's avatar

“use genomic data to justify racial discrimination by claiming that observed differences between racial groups are largely genetically determined. MTT argue that this research has neither practical value, because our society has accepted that people deserve to be treated as individuals rather than as groups, nor theoretical value, because the methods employed cannot distinguish genetic from environmental causes.”

This is disingenuous. If genetic research can explain even some of the black/white achievement gap it serves immense value in a society that is fixated on that gap and seeking to remedy it by stiffing me as a white man with ever higher levels of taxation and discrimination.

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Justin D's avatar

The public is quickly losing faith in social science as it has obviously become politicized, along with the widespread fraud that has been discovered recently. If you make the argument that certain kinds of knowledge are harmful, no matter how well intentioned, it will remove any doubt in the public that social scientists aren't actually concerned about the empirical facts. This new (clever) argument about "consent" will seem like just another excuse to block research which might disprove the beliefs many social scientists hold about human nature.

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