Wondering just how low science has gone? Look no further than science magazine Cell, which said the entire field was guilty of racism. This comes on the heels of a climate scientist at NASA GISS linking white supremacy to climate change. -CCD Ed.
The woke editors of the prominent science journal Cell have published a mea culpa, accusing their entire discipline of racism.
“We are the editors of a science journal, committed to publishing and disseminating exciting work across the biological sciences,” the editors write. “We are 13 scientists. Not one of us is Black. Underrepresentation of Black scientists goes beyond our team — to our authors, reviewers, and advisory board. And we are not alone.”
“It is easy to divert blame, to point out that the journal is a reflection of the scientific establishment, to quote statistics,” they declare.
“But it is this epidemic of denial of the integral role that each and every member of our society plays in supporting the status quo by failing to actively fight it that has allowed overt and systemic racism to flourish, crippling the lives and livelihoods of Black Americans, including Black scientists.”
“Science has a racism problem,” they assert, apparently concluding that underrepresentation of a given ethnic group must necessarily equate to an unrecognized bias against that group.
This glaringly unscientific conclusion would mean that, in the editors’ minds, any field with an ethnic representation that does not perfectly mirror the overall population must be unconsciously racist.
Rap music, for instance, which is dominated by people of color, would, therefore, be racist and anti-white. Many professional sports, where blacks are proportionally overrepresented, would also be racist.
In their self-condemning screed, the Cell editors point to the history of human genetics, “a field that has been used repeatedly as scientific rationale for the definition of human ‘races’ and to support inherent inequalities.”
“Proponents of eugenics use the alleles we carry as reason to declare racial superiority, as if expression of a lactase gene has bearing on one’s humanity. Race is not genetic,” they state.
This last statement is patently false since all physical traits — such as skin color — are genetically determined. Whether one wishes to call such differences “racial” is merely a question of semantics, not of fact.
Much of the 1,000-word essay is a look back at historical abuse of blacks at the hands of white scientists.
One would think that their examination of conscience would focus more on current practice—to see whether such abuse continues today — rather than seeking to awaken feelings of guilt for other people’s actions.
The editors also encourage their readers to “ask why Black women are five times more likely than white women to die during pregnancy, or why Black infants are twice as likely to die as white babies born in the US.”
If they were truly curious and truly interested in black lives, the editors might ask why black babies are three times more likely than white babies to be intentionally killed in the womb through abortion.
Over and over, the editors repeat their mantra that “science has a racism problem.” One wonders how science as such can be racist. One would think that professional thinkers might realize that while scientists may be racists, science itself cannot.
Racism is based on beliefs and prejudices, which are the proper domain of human individuals.
Read rest at Breitbart
Perhaps these editors should quit their privileged jobs, sell their expensive, privileged houses, cottages, and cars, give the money to a black charity, and move into an inner city neighbourhood where they can live on the street. That would signal “Virtue” much better than their self hating rant.
Would like to share my climate change racism problem post.
Here is the link.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/06/11/racism-and-climate-change/
Actually, there’s no such thing as different human “races”. There is only one race and it’s human. Different races are not supported. The variations in appearance are obviously genetic, but that does not make for a different “race”.
To 4TIMESAYEAR.
Own Goal! Have you thought this through? If humans are all one race, then ‘racism’ is impossible!
But, you are wrong. ‘Human’ is the species (Homo Sapiens) not a ‘race’, with ‘race’ corresponding to a sub-division at, or below, ‘sub-species’. Anatomically modern humans are ‘Homo sapiens sapiens’, where the 1st ‘sapiens’ is the species & the 2nd ‘sapiens’ is the sub-species – see Wikipedia discussion ‘Homo sapiens subspecies’ for possible recognition of at least 5 CURRENT human sub-species, approximately corresponding to ‘race’. Only tens of thousands of years ago there were at least two, to maybe 5, co-existing human species – the genus ‘Homo’ (human) is extremely biologically unusual in currently being represented by only one species.
The genetic differences do indeed define ‘race’, and, except on their geographical margins, nobody has any difficulty in identifying what race they belong to. Before international transport, Homo Sapiens was accumulating sufficient genetic differences to divide into different species within some tens of thousands of years – it almost certainly would have done after the next 80,000 year long glacial, due in not more than about 8,000 years.
If you don’t believe in ‘race’ (and its genetic determination), yet, contradictorily, do believe in ‘racism’ and, specifically, the disadvantaging of blacks, then you need to explain the report that the 2016 Rio Olympics was the 9th consecutive one in which all 8 100 m finalists were black – as far as I can check this is true. 72 out of 72 cannot be explained away as a ‘social construct’, neither can it be explained by white athlete’s being ‘under-privileged’ in sports facilities. Which leaves? Anything but genes???
Its no longer Science anymore its all about Money,Politics and Ideology and the usial group pf Eco-Freaks
So, go out and find a black scientist with the necessary qualifications and invite him or her to join your group.
There’s another possible way. Establish a scholarship to pay a student who is aiming at a degree in your field.