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To: epicure who wrote (105387)	5/28/2005 8:00:44 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

this is old, but I thought it was fascinating: racesci.org

To: epicure who wrote (105387)	5/28/2005 10:39:50 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

You do not want to talk about the scientists who were convinced blacks were inferior to whites? I don't mind talking about it, except that I have little useful to say. Yes, those scientists were products of their bygone cultures and it affected their conclusions. We should realize that blacks coming out of slavery were almost totally uneducated and unversed, and that it would easy to mistake this for a lack of intelligence. They were to be proven wrong in times to come, yet I'm not sure "prejudice" applies. This does put me in mind of other contemporary cultural restraints on the search for scientific truth. Using either gender or race as variables in scientific studies is virtually forbidden in our society. We saw that illustrated in the case of President Summers at Harvard. Merely mentioning that there might be an innate difference between the sexes in scientific aptitude almost cost him his job. Imagine if he had sought a grant to conduct experiments on the subject!