Tag: Sharon Begley

  • Should biologists stop grouping us by race? STAT: Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine 2016-02-04 Sharon Begley More than a decade after leading geneticists argued that race is not a true biological category, many studies continue to use it, harming scientific understanding and possibly patients, researchers argued in a provocative essay in Science…

  • Racial Medicine: Not So Fast The Daily Beast 2008-08-19 Sharon Begley, Senior Health and Science Correspondent Reuters Next time you want to start a bar fight, proclaim to everyone within earshot that “race is not real; it is just a social and cultural construct and has no biological validity.” Then duck before you get punched…

  • Three Is Not Enough The Daily Beast Newsweek Magazine 1995-02-12 Sharon Begley, Senior Health and Science Correspondent Reuters In 1990, Americans claimed membership in nearly 300 races or ethnic groups and 600 American Indian tribes. Hispanics had 70 categories of their own. To most Americans race is as plain as the color of the nose…